RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 LINDLEY, N. D. A1 HEYDEMAN, M. T.YR 1986 T1 Mechanism of Dodecane Uptake by Whole Cells of Cladosporium resinae JF Microbiology, VO 132 IS 3 SP 751 OP 756 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-132-3-751 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2080, AB SUMMARY: Whole cells of Cladosporium resinae took up n-dodecane in two stages. The hydrocarbon was first passively adsorbed to the cell surface, and then hydrocarbon was taken in by a mechanism that obeyed Michaelis–Menten saturation kinetics [K m 1 mm, V max 12∙1 nmol min−1 (mg protein−1)]. Under conditions of poor agitation the initial adsorption limited uptake rates. The organism accumulated unaltered substrate to higher concentrations within the cytosol than in the surrounding medium, but this depended upon high concentrations of dodecane being adsorbed to the cell surface, thus creating a diffusion gradient., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-132-3-751