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Yin X, Zhou G, Cai M, Richter-Heitmann T, Zhu QZ, Maeke M, Kulkarni AC, Nimzyk R, Elvert M, Friedrich MW. Physiological versatility of ANME-1 and Bathyarchaeotoa-8 archaea evidenced by inverse stable isotope labeling. MICROBIOME 2024; 12:68. [PMID: 38570877 PMCID: PMC10988981 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-024-01779-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND The trophic strategy is one key principle to categorize microbial lifestyles, by broadly classifying microorganisms based on the combination of their preferred carbon sources, electron sources, and electron sinks. Recently, a novel trophic strategy, i.e., chemoorganoautotrophy-the utilization of organic carbon as energy source but inorganic carbon as sole carbon source-has been specifically proposed for anaerobic methane oxidizing archaea (ANME-1) and Bathyarchaeota subgroup 8 (Bathy-8). RESULTS To further explore chemoorganoautotrophy, we employed stable isotope probing (SIP) of nucleic acids (rRNA or DNA) using unlabeled organic carbon and 13C-labeled dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), i.e., inverse stable isotope labeling, in combination with metagenomics. We found that ANME-1 archaea actively incorporated 13C-DIC into RNA in the presence of methane and lepidocrocite when sulfate was absent, but assimilated organic carbon when cellulose was added to incubations without methane additions. Bathy-8 archaea assimilated 13C-DIC when lignin was amended; however, their DNA was derived from both inorganic and organic carbon sources rather than from inorganic carbon alone. Based on SIP results and supported by metagenomics, carbon transfer between catabolic and anabolic branches of metabolism is possible in these archaeal groups, indicating their anabolic versatility. CONCLUSION We provide evidence for the incorporation of the mixed organic and inorganic carbon by ANME-1 and Bathy-8 archaea in the environment. Video Abstract.
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- Xiuran Yin
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Renmin Ave. No.58, Haikou, 570228, China.
- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany.
- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 8, Bremen, D-28359, Germany.
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Renmin Ave. No.58, Haikou, 570228, China
- School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Institute of Chemical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
- Archaeal Biology Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 8, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 8, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 8, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
- Faculty of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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- Microbial Ecophysiology Group, Faculty of Biology/Chemistry, University of Bremen, James-Watt-Strasse 1, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
- MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Leobener Straße 8, Bremen, D-28359, Germany
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Noell SE, Hellweger FL, Temperton B, Giovannoni SJ. A Reduction of Transcriptional Regulation in Aquatic Oligotrophic Microorganisms Enhances Fitness in Nutrient-Poor Environments. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2023; 87:e0012422. [PMID: 36995249 PMCID: PMC10304753 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00124-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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In this review, we consider the regulatory strategies of aquatic oligotrophs, microbial cells that are adapted to thrive under low-nutrient concentrations in oceans, lakes, and other aquatic ecosystems. Many reports have concluded that oligotrophs use less transcriptional regulation than copiotrophic cells, which are adapted to high nutrient concentrations and are far more common subjects for laboratory investigations of regulation. It is theorized that oligotrophs have retained alternate mechanisms of regulation, such as riboswitches, that provide shorter response times and smaller amplitude responses and require fewer cellular resources. We examine the accumulated evidence for distinctive regulatory strategies in oligotrophs. We explore differences in the selective pressures copiotrophs and oligotrophs encounter and ask why, although evolutionary history gives copiotrophs and oligotrophs access to the same regulatory mechanisms, they might exhibit distinctly different patterns in how these mechanisms are used. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding broad patterns in the evolution of microbial regulatory networks and their relationships to environmental niche and life history strategy. We ask whether these observations, which have emerged from a decade of increased investigation of the cell biology of oligotrophs, might be relevant to recent discoveries of many microbial cell lineages in nature that share with oligotrophs the property of reduced genome size.
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- Stephen E. Noell
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Noell SE, Brennan E, Washburn Q, Davis EW, Hellweger FL, Giovannoni SJ. Differences in the regulatory strategies of marine oligotrophs and copiotrophs reflect differences in motility. Environ Microbiol 2023. [PMID: 36826469 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Aquatic bacteria frequently are divided into lifestyle categories oligotroph or copiotroph. Oligotrophs have proportionately fewer transcriptional regulatory genes than copiotrophs and are generally non-motile/chemotactic. We hypothesized that the absence of chemotaxis/motility in oligotrophs prevents them from occupying nutrient patches long enough to benefit from transcriptional regulation. We first confirmed that marine oligotrophs are generally reduced in genes for transcriptional regulation and motility/chemotaxis. Next, using a non-motile oligotroph (Ca. Pelagibacter st. HTCC7211), a motile copiotroph (Alteromonas macleodii st. HOT1A3), and [14 C]l-alanine, we confirmed that l-alanine catabolism is not transcriptionally regulated in HTCC7211 but is in HOT1A3. We then found that HOT1A3 took 2.5-4 min to initiate l-alanine oxidation at patch l-alanine concentrations, compared to <30 s for HTCC7211. By modelling cell trajectories, we predicted that, in most scenarios, non-motile cells spend <2 min in patches, compared to >4 min for chemotactic/motile cells. Thus, the time necessary for transcriptional regulation to initiate prevents transcriptional regulation from being beneficial for non-motile oligotrophs. This is supported by a mechanistic model we developed, which predicted that HTCC7211 cells with transcriptional regulation of l-alanine metabolism would produce 12% of their standing ATP stock upon encountering an l-alanine patch, compared to 880% in HTCC7211 cells without transcriptional regulation.
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- Stephen E Noell
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Center for Quantitative Life Sciences, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA
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Berger P, Kouzel IU, Berger M, Haarmann N, Dobrindt U, Koudelka GB, Mellmann A. Carriage of Shiga toxin phage profoundly affects Escherichia coli gene expression and carbon source utilization. BMC Genomics 2019; 20:504. [PMID: 31208335 PMCID: PMC6580645 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5892-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 06/10/2019] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Background Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (E. coli) are intestinal pathogenic bacteria that cause life-threatening disease in humans. Their cardinal virulence factor is Shiga toxin (Stx), which is encoded on lambdoid phages integrated in the chromosome. Stx phages can infect and lysogenize susceptible bacteria, thus either increasing the virulence of already pathogenic bacterial hosts or transforming commensal strains into potential pathogens. There is increasing evidence that Stx phage-encoded factors adaptively regulate bacterial host gene expression. Here, we investigated the effects of Stx phage carriage in E. coli K-12 strain MG1655. We compared the transcriptome and phenotype of naive MG1655 and two lysogens carrying closely related Stx2a phages: ϕO104 from the exceptionally pathogenic 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strain and ϕPA8 from an E. coli O157:H7 isolate. Results Analysis of quantitative RNA sequencing results showed that, in comparison to naive MG1655, genes involved in mixed acid fermentation were upregulated, while genes encoding NADH dehydrogenase I, TCA cycle enzymes and proteins involved in the transport and assimilation of carbon sources were downregulated in MG1655::ϕO104 and MG1655::ϕPA8. The majority of the changes in gene expression were found associated with the corresponding phenotypes. Notably, the Stx2a phage lysogens displayed moderate to severe growth defects in minimal medium supplemented with single carbon sources, e.g. galactose, ribose, L-lactate. In addition, in phenotype microarray assays, the Stx2a phage lysogens were characterized by a significant decrease in the cell respiration with gluconeogenic substrates such as amino acids, nucleosides, carboxylic and dicarboxylic acids. In contrast, MG1655::ϕO104 and MG1655::ϕPA8 displayed enhanced respiration with several sugar components of the intestinal mucus, e.g. arabinose, fucose, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. We also found that prophage-encoded factors distinct from CI and Cro were responsible for the carbon utilization phenotypes of the Stx2a phage lysogens. Conclusions Our study reveals a profound impact of the Stx phage carriage on E. coli carbon source utilization. The Stx2a prophage appears to reprogram the carbon metabolism of its bacterial host by turning down aerobic metabolism in favour of mixed acid fermentation. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-019-5892-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Petya Berger
- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
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Perez-Zabaleta M, Guevara-Martínez M, Gustavsson M, Quillaguamán J, Larsson G, van Maris AJA. Comparison of engineered Escherichia coli AF1000 and BL21 strains for (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate production in fed-batch cultivation. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:5627-5639. [PMID: 31104101 PMCID: PMC6597613 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09876-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2019] [Revised: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Accumulation of acetate is a limiting factor in recombinant production of (R)-3-hydroxybutyrate (3HB) by Escherichia coli in high-cell-density processes. To alleviate this limitation, this study investigated two approaches: (i) deletion of phosphotransacetylase (pta), pyruvate oxidase (poxB), and/or the isocitrate lyase regulator (iclR), known to decrease acetate formation, on bioreactor cultivations designed to achieve high 3HB concentrations. (ii) Screening of different E. coli strain backgrounds (B, BL21, W, BW25113, MG1655, W3110, and AF1000) for their potential as low acetate-forming, 3HB-producing platforms. Deletion of pta and pta-poxB in the AF1000 strain background was to some extent successful in decreasing acetate formation, but also dramatically increased excretion of pyruvate and did not result in increased 3HB production in high-cell-density fed-batch cultivations. Screening of the different E. coli strains confirmed BL21 as a low acetate-forming background. Despite low 3HB titers in low-cell-density screening, 3HB-producing BL21 produced five times less acetic acid per mole of 3HB, which translated into a 2.3-fold increase in the final 3HB titer and a 3-fold higher volumetric 3HB productivity over 3HB-producing AF1000 strains in nitrogen-limited fed-batch cultivations. Consequently, the BL21 strain achieved the hitherto highest described volumetric productivity of 3HB (1.52 g L−1 h−1) and the highest 3HB concentration (16.3 g L−1) achieved by recombinant E. coli. Screening solely for 3HB titers in low-cell-density batch cultivations would not have identified the potential of this strain, reaffirming the importance of screening with the final production conditions in mind.
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- Mariel Perez-Zabaleta
- School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health (CBH), Department of Industrial Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Center of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health (CBH), Department of Industrial Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
- Center of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health (CBH), Department of Industrial Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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- School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health (CBH), Department of Industrial Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Health (CBH), Department of Industrial Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova University Center, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Li SX, Wu HT, Liu YT, Jiang YY, Zhang YS, Liu WD, Zhu KJ, Li DM, Zhang H. The F 1F o-ATP Synthase β Subunit Is Required for Candida albicans Pathogenicity Due to Its Role in Carbon Flexibility. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1025. [PMID: 29875745 PMCID: PMC5974098 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2017] [Accepted: 05/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous work has explored link between mitochondrial biology and fungal pathogenicity in F1Fo-ATP synthase in Candida albicans. In this work we have detailed the more specific roles of the F1Fo-ATP synthase β subunit, a key protein subunit of F1Fo-ATP synthase. The ability to assimilate alternative carbons in glucose-limited host niches is known to be a critical factor for infection caused by opportunistic pathogens including C. albicans. The function of the F1Fo-ATP synthase β subunit was characterized through the construction of an ATP2 gene null mutant (atp2Δ/Δ) and the gene-reconstituted strain (atp2Δ/ATP2) in order to understand the link between carbon metabolism and C. albicans pathogenesis. Cell growth, viability, cellular ATP content, mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm), and intracellular ROS were compared between null mutant and control strain. Results showed that growth of the atp2Δ/Δ mutant in synthetic medium was slower than in complex medium. However, the synthetic medium delayed the onset of reduced cell viability and kept cellular ATP content from becoming fully depleted. Consistent with these observations, we identified transcriptional changes in metabolic response that activated other ATP-generating pathways, thereby improving cell viability during the initial phase. Unlike glucose effects, the atp2Δ/Δ mutant exhibited an immediate and sharp reduction in cell viability on non-fermentable carbon sources, consistent with an immediate depletion of cellular ATP content. Along with a reduced viability in non-fermentable carbon sources, the atp2Δ/Δ mutant displayed avirulence in a murine model of disseminated candidiasis as well as lower fungal loads in mouse organs. Regardless of the medium, however, a decrease in mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) was found in the atp2Δ/Δ mutant but ROS levels remained in the normal range. These results suggest that the F1Fo-ATP synthase β subunit is required for C. albicans pathogenicity and operates by affecting metabolic flexibility in carbon consumption.
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- Shui-Xiu Li
- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Skin Diseases and STIs, Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
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- Department of Dermatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.,Institute of Mycology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Wittenberger CL, Palumbo MP, Bridges RB, Brown AT. Mechanisms for Regulating the Activity of Constitutive Glucose Degradative Pathways in Streptococcus faecalis. J Dent Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/00220345710500051001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- Charles L. Wittenberger
- qMicrobial Physiology Section, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA
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- qMicrobial Physiology Section, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA
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- qMicrobial Physiology Section, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA
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- qMicrobial Physiology Section, Laboratory of Microbiology and Immunology, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014, USA
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Use of a Bacterial Luciferase Monitoring System To Estimate Real-Time Dynamics of Intracellular Metabolism in Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:5960-8. [PMID: 27474708 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01400-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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UNLABELLED Regulation of central carbon metabolism has long been an important research subject in every organism. While the dynamics of metabolic flows during changes in available carbon sources have been estimated based on changes in metabolism-related gene expression, as well as on changes in the metabolome, the flux change itself has scarcely been measured because of technical difficulty, which has made conclusions elusive in many cases. Here, we used a monitoring system employing Vibrio fischeri luciferase to probe the intracellular metabolic condition in Escherichia coli Using a batch culture provided with a limited amount of glucose, we performed a time course analysis, where the predominant carbon source shifts from glucose to acetate, and identified a series of sequential peaks in the luciferase activity (peaks 1 to 4). Two major peaks, peaks 1 and 3, were considered to correspond to the glucose and acetate consuming phases, respectively, based on the glucose, acetate, and dissolved oxygen concentrations in the medium. The pattern of these peaks was changed by the addition of a different carbon source or by an increasing concentration of glucose, which was consistent with the present model. Genetically, mutations involved in glycolysis or the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle/gluconeogenesis specifically affected peak 1 or peak 3, respectively, as expected from the corresponding metabolic phase. Intriguingly, mutants for the acetate excretion pathway showed a phenotype of extended peak 2 and delayed transition to the TCA cycle/gluconeogenesis phase, which suggests that peak 2 represents the metabolic transition phase. These results indicate that the bacterial luciferase monitoring system is useful to understand the real-time dynamics of metabolism in living bacterial cells. IMPORTANCE Intracellular metabolic flows dynamically change during shifts in available carbon sources. However, because of technical difficulty, the flux change has scarcely been measured in living cells. Here, we used a Vibrio fischeri luciferase monitoring system to probe the intracellular metabolic condition in Escherichia coli Using a limited amount of glucose batch culture, a series of sequential peaks (peaks 1 to 4) in the luciferase activity was observed. Changes in the pattern of these peaks by the addition of extra carbon sources and in mutant strains involved in glycolysis or the TCA cycle/gluconeogenesis gene assigned the metabolic phase corresponding to peak 1 as the glycolysis phase and peak 3 as the TCA cycle/gluconeogenesis phase. Intriguingly, the acetate excretion pathway engaged in peak 2 represents the metabolic transition phase. These results indicate that the bacterial luciferase monitoring system is useful to understand the real-time dynamics of metabolism in living bacterial cells.
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Lamprecht DA, Finin PM, Rahman MA, Cumming BM, Russell SL, Jonnala SR, Adamson JH, Steyn AJC. Turning the respiratory flexibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against itself. Nat Commun 2016; 7:12393. [PMID: 27506290 PMCID: PMC4987515 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) electron transport chain (ETC) has received significant attention as a drug target, however its vulnerability may be affected by its flexibility in response to disruption. Here we determine the effect of the ETC inhibitors bedaquiline, Q203 and clofazimine on the Mtb ETC, and the value of the ETC as a drug target, by measuring Mtb's respiration using extracellular flux technology. We find that Mtb's ETC rapidly reroutes around inhibition by these drugs and increases total respiration to maintain ATP levels. Rerouting is possible because Mtb rapidly switches between terminal oxidases, and, unlike eukaryotes, is not susceptible to back pressure. Increased ETC activity potentiates clofazimine's production of reactive oxygen species, causing rapid killing in vitro and in a macrophage model. Our results indicate that combination therapy targeting the ETC can be exploited to enhance killing of Mtb.
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- Dirk A. Lamprecht
- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 1218 Scaife Hall 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, USA
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
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- KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV (K-RITH), K-RITH Tower Building Level 3, 719 Umbilo Road, Durban 4001, South Africa
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1720 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA
- Centres for AIDS Research and Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1720 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham, Alabama 35294-2170, USA
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Pathogenic bacteria must contend with immune systems that actively restrict the availability of nutrients and cofactors, and create a hostile growth environment. To deal with these hostile environments, pathogenic bacteria have evolved or acquired virulence determinants that aid in the acquisition of nutrients. This connection between pathogenesis and nutrition may explain why regulators of metabolism in nonpathogenic bacteria are used by pathogenic bacteria to regulate both metabolism and virulence. Such coordinated regulation is presumably advantageous because it conserves carbon and energy by aligning synthesis of virulence determinants with the nutritional environment. In Gram-positive bacterial pathogens, at least three metabolite-responsive global regulators, CcpA, CodY, and Rex, have been shown to coordinate the expression of metabolism and virulence genes. In this chapter, we discuss how environmental challenges alter metabolism, the regulators that respond to this altered metabolism, and how these regulators influence the host-pathogen interaction.
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Hentchel KL, Escalante-Semerena JC. Acylation of Biomolecules in Prokaryotes: a Widespread Strategy for the Control of Biological Function and Metabolic Stress. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2015; 79:321-46. [PMID: 26179745 PMCID: PMC4503791 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00020-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Acylation of biomolecules (e.g., proteins and small molecules) is a process that occurs in cells of all domains of life and has emerged as a critical mechanism for the control of many aspects of cellular physiology, including chromatin maintenance, transcriptional regulation, primary metabolism, cell structure, and likely other cellular processes. Although this review focuses on the use of acetyl moieties to modify a protein or small molecule, it is clear that cells can use many weak organic acids (e.g., short-, medium-, and long-chain mono- and dicarboxylic aliphatics and aromatics) to modify a large suite of targets. Acetylation of biomolecules has been studied for decades within the context of histone-dependent regulation of gene expression and antibiotic resistance. It was not until the early 2000s that the connection between metabolism, physiology, and protein acetylation was reported. This was the first instance of a metabolic enzyme (acetyl coenzyme A [acetyl-CoA] synthetase) whose activity was controlled by acetylation via a regulatory system responsive to physiological cues. The above-mentioned system was comprised of an acyltransferase and a partner deacylase. Given the reversibility of the acylation process, this system is also referred to as reversible lysine acylation (RLA). A wealth of information has been obtained since the discovery of RLA in prokaryotes, and we are just beginning to visualize the extent of the impact that this regulatory system has on cell function.
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- Kristy L Hentchel
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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Fonseca MV, Swanson MS. Nutrient salvaging and metabolism by the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2014; 4:12. [PMID: 24575391 PMCID: PMC3920079 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The Gram-negative bacterium Legionella pneumophila is ubiquitous in freshwater environments as a free-swimming organism, resident of biofilms, or parasite of protozoa. If the bacterium is aerosolized and inhaled by a susceptible human host, it can infect alveolar macrophages and cause a severe pneumonia known as Legionnaires' disease. A sophisticated cell differentiation program equips L. pneumophila to persist in both extracellular and intracellular niches. During its life cycle, L. pneumophila alternates between at least two distinct forms: a transmissive form equipped to infect host cells and evade lysosomal degradation, and a replicative form that multiplies within a phagosomal compartment that it has retooled to its advantage. The efficient changeover between transmissive and replicative states is fundamental to L. pneumophila's fitness as an intracellular pathogen. The transmission and replication programs of L. pneumophila are governed by a number of metabolic cues that signal whether conditions are favorable for replication or instead trigger escape from a spent host. Several lines of experimental evidence gathered over the past decade establish strong links between metabolism, cellular differentiation, and virulence of L. pneumophila. Herein, we focus on current knowledge of the metabolic components employed by intracellular L. pneumophila for cell differentiation, nutrient salvaging and utilization of host factors. Specifically, we highlight the metabolic cues that are coupled to bacterial differentiation, nutrient acquisition systems, and the strategies utilized by L. pneumophila to exploit host metabolites for intracellular replication.
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- Maris V Fonseca
- Science and Mathematics Division, Monroe County Community College Monroe, MI, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Mitsch MJ, Cowie A, Finan TM. Malic enzyme cofactor and domain requirements for symbiotic N2 fixation by Sinorhizobium meliloti. J Bacteriol 2006; 189:160-8. [PMID: 17071765 PMCID: PMC1797227 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01425-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The NAD(+)-dependent malic enzyme (DME) and the NADP(+)-dependent malic enzyme (TME) of Sinorhizobium meliloti are representatives of a distinct class of malic enzymes that contain a 440-amino-acid N-terminal region homologous to other malic enzymes and a 330-amino-acid C-terminal region with similarity to phosphotransacetylase enzymes (PTA). We have shown previously that dme mutants of S. meliloti fail to fix N(2) (Fix(-)) in alfalfa root nodules, whereas tme mutants are unimpaired in their N(2)-fixing ability (Fix(+)). Here we report that the amount of DME protein in bacteroids is 10 times greater than that of TME. We therefore investigated whether increased TME activity in nodules would allow TME to function in place of DME. The tme gene was placed under the control of the dme promoter, and despite elevated levels of TME within bacteroids, no symbiotic nitrogen fixation occurred in dme mutant strains. Conversely, expression of dme from the tme promoter resulted in a large reduction in DME activity and symbiotic N(2) fixation. Hence, TME cannot replace the symbiotic requirement for DME. In further experiments we investigated the DME PTA-like domain and showed that it is not required for N(2) fixation. Thus, expression of a DME C-terminal deletion derivative or the Escherichia coli NAD(+)-dependent malic enzyme (sfcA), both of which lack the PTA-like region, restored wild-type N(2) fixation to a dme mutant. Our results have defined the symbiotic requirements for malic enzyme and raise the possibility that a constant high ratio of NADPH + H(+) to NADP in nitrogen-fixing bacteroids prevents TME from functioning in N(2)-fixing bacteroids.
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- Michael J Mitsch
- Center for Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Fukuda W, Fukui T, Atomi H, Imanaka T. First characterization of an archaeal GTP-dependent phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:4620-7. [PMID: 15231795 PMCID: PMC438638 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.14.4620-4627.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK), which catalyzes the nucleotide-dependent, reversible decarboxylation of oxaloacetate to yield phosphoenolpyruvate and CO2, is one of the important enzymes in the interconversion between C3 and C4 metabolites. This study focused on the first characterization of the enzymatic properties and expression profile of an archaeal PCK from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis (PckTk). PckTk showed 30 to 35% identities to GTP-dependent PCKs from mammals and bacteria but was located in a branch distinct from that of the classical enzymes in the phylogenetic tree, together with other archaeal homologs from Pyrococcus and Sulfolobus spp. Several catalytically important regions and residues, found in all known PCKs irrespective of their nucleotide specificities, were conserved in PckTk. However, the predicted GTP-binding region was unique compared to those in other GTP-dependent PCKs. The recombinant PckTk actually exhibited GTP-dependent activity and was suggested to possess dual cation-binding sites specific for Mn2+ and Mg2+. The enzyme preferred phosphoenolpyruvate formation from oxaloacetate, since the Km value for oxaloacetate was much lower than that for phosphoenolpyruvate. The transcription and activity levels in T. kodakaraensis were higher under gluconeogenic conditions than under glycolytic conditions. These results agreed with the role of PckTk in providing phosphoenolpyruvate from oxaloacetate as the first step of gluconeogenesis in this hyperthermophilic archaeon. Additionally, under gluconeogenic conditions, we observed higher expression levels of PckTk on pyruvate than on amino acids, implying that it plays an additional role in the recycling of excess phosphoenolpyruvate produced from pyruvate, replacing the function of the anaplerotic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase that is missing from this archaeon.
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- Wakao Fukuda
- Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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Kennelly PJ. Archaeal protein kinases and protein phosphatases: insights from genomics and biochemistry. Biochem J 2003; 370:373-89. [PMID: 12444920 PMCID: PMC1223194 DOI: 10.1042/bj20021547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2002] [Revised: 11/20/2002] [Accepted: 11/22/2002] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation has long been considered a recent addition to Nature's regulatory arsenal. Early studies indicated that this molecular regulatory mechanism existed only in higher eukaryotes, suggesting that protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation had emerged to meet the particular signal-transduction requirements of multicellular organisms. Although it has since become apparent that simple eukaryotes and even bacteria are sites of protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation, the perception widely persists that this molecular regulatory mechanism emerged late in evolution, i.e. after the divergence of the contemporary phylogenetic domains. Only highly developed cells, it was reasoned, could afford the high 'overhead' costs inherent in the acquisition of dedicated protein kinases and protein phosphatases. The advent of genome sequencing has provided an opportunity to exploit Nature's phylogenetic diversity as a vehicle for critically examining this hypothesis. In tracing the origins and evolution of protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation, the members of the Archaea, the so-called 'third domain of life', will play a critical role. Whereas several studies have demonstrated that archaeal proteins are subject to modification by covalent phosphorylation, relatively little is known concerning the identities of the proteins affected, the impact on their functional properties, or the enzymes that catalyse these events. However, examination of several archaeal genomes has revealed the widespread presence of several ostensibly 'eukaryotic' and 'bacterial' protein kinase and protein phosphatase paradigms. Similar findings of 'phylogenetic trespass' in members of the Eucarya (eukaryotes) and the Bacteria suggest that this versatile molecular regulatory mechanism emerged at an unexpectedly early point in development of 'life as we know it'.
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- Peter J Kennelly
- Department of Biochemistry - 0308, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
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Buchholz A, Takors R, Wandrey C. Quantification of intracellular metabolites in Escherichia coli K12 using liquid chromatographic-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometric techniques. Anal Biochem 2001; 295:129-37. [PMID: 11488613 DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The quantitative comprehension of microbial metabolic networks is a prerequisite for an efficient rational strain improvement ("metabolic engineering"). It is therefore necessary to accurately determine the concentration of a large number of reactants (i.e., metabolites, nucleotides, cofactors) in order to understand "in vivo" reaction kinetics. Quantification of intracellular concentrations of glycolytic intermediates and nucleotides in Escherichia coli K12 using a perchloric acid extraction and an LC-ESI-MS method was achieved. Intracellular metabolites (e.g., glucose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, 6-phospho gluconate, acetyl-CoA, adenine nucleotides) were quantified under defined (glucose-limited steady-state) growth conditions. The method was verified by comparing the intracellular metabolite concentrations measured via LC-ESI-MS with enzymatic determinations. It is thus possible to identify and quantify more than 15 intracellular metabolites in parallel with a minimal amount of sample volume.
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- A Buchholz
- Institute of Biotechnology 2, Research Centre Juelich, 52425 Juelich, Germany
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Archibald F, Méthot M, Young F, Paice MG. A simple system to rapidly monitor activated sludge health and performance. WATER RESEARCH 2001; 35:2543-2553. [PMID: 11394790 DOI: 10.1016/s0043-1354(00)00542-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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A set of four assays designed to rapidly measure the health and biodegradative performance of pulp and paper mill activated sludges was developed. Three of the assays are specific oxygen uptake rates (SOURs) that measure the normal "working" aeration tank BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) removal rate (SOURAT), a near-maximum BOD removal rate (SOURNMAX), and a rate (SOURTOX) used in combination with the SOURNMAX to indicate the presence of toxic or inhibitory substances. The fourth assay is the specific adenosine triphosphate (SATP) content of the sludge, used as a measure of its viable cell content. Fresh biomass (sludge) samples from one laboratory reactor and four mill biotreatment systems were fed raw mill effluents and used to evaluate the four-assay set. The SOURAT values of all systems were 10-40% of their SOURNMAX values: thus the SOURAT:SOURNMAX ratios indicate that each system's free biodegradative capacity was far greater than its operating rate. It was demonstrated using phenol that the SOURNMAX:SOURTOX ratio can indicate the presence of substances toxic or inhibitory to the biomass. The results also indicated that the SOURNMAX is a much better indicator of improving or worsening sludge performance and capacity than the SOURAT. SATP was shown to be a useful monitor of the proportion of viable cells in an activated sludge and a toxicity indicator complementary to the SOURNMAX:SOURTOX ratio and similar in principle to the commercial Microtox toxicity test. This four-assay set was also applied to three practical situations: (a) at-mill monitoring of a biotreatment system; (b) effects of cold storage on biomass; and (c) effects of decreased BOD loading on biomass.
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- F Archibald
- Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada (Paprican), Pointe Claire, Quebec.
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van der Rest ME, Frank C, Molenaar D. Functions of the membrane-associated and cytoplasmic malate dehydrogenases in the citric acid cycle of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:6892-9. [PMID: 11092847 PMCID: PMC94812 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.24.6892-6899.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Oxidation of malate to oxaloacetate in Escherichia coli can be catalyzed by two enzymes: the well-known NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase (MDH; EC 1.1.1.37) and the membrane-associated malate:quinone-oxidoreductase (MQO; EC 1.1.99.16), encoded by the gene mqo (previously called yojH). Expression of the mqo gene and, consequently, MQO activity are regulated by carbon and energy source for growth. In batch cultures, MQO activity was highest during exponential growth and decreased sharply after onset of the stationary phase. Experiments with the beta-galactosidase reporter fused to the promoter of the mqo gene indicate that its transcription is regulated by the ArcA-ArcB two-component system. In contrast to earlier reports, MDH did not repress mqo expression. On the contrary, MQO and MDH are active at the same time in E. coli. For Corynebacterium glutamicum, it was found that MQO is the principal enzyme catalyzing the oxidation of malate to oxaloacetate. These observations justified a reinvestigation of the roles of MDH and MQO in the citric acid cycle of E. coli. In this organism, a defined deletion of the mdh gene led to severely decreased rates of growth on several substrates. Deletion of the mqo gene did not produce a distinguishable effect on the growth rate, nor did it affect the fitness of the organism in competition with the wild type. To investigate whether in an mqo mutant the conversion of malate to oxaloacetate could have been taken over by a bypass route via malic enzyme, phosphoenolpyruvate synthase, and phosphenolpyruvate carboxylase, deletion mutants of the malic enzyme genes sfcA and b2463 (coding for EC 1.1.1.38 and EC 1.1.1.40, respectively) and of the phosphoenolpyruvate synthase (EC 2.7.9.2) gene pps were created. They were introduced separately or together with the deletion of mqo. These studies did not reveal a significant role for MQO in malate oxidation in wild-type E. coli. However, comparing growth of the mdh single mutant to that of the double mutant containing mdh and mqo deletions did indicate that MQO partly takes over the function of MDH in an mdh mutant.
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- M E van der Rest
- Biotechnologisches Zentrallabor, Geb. 25.12, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Diaz Ricci JC. ADP modulates the dynamic behavior of the glycolytic pathway of Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 271:244-9. [PMID: 10777710 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A mathematical model that includes biochemical interactions among the PTS system, phosphofructokinase (PFK), and pyruvate kinase (PK) is used to evaluate the dynamic behavior of the glycolytic pathway of Escherichia coli under steady-state conditions. The influence of ADP, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), and fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) on the dynamic regulation of this pathway is also analyzed. The model shows that the dynamic behavior of the system is affected significantly depending on whether ADP, PEP, or F6P is considered constant a steady state. Sustained oscillations are observed only when dADP/dt not equal 0 and completely suppressed if dADP/dt = 0 at any steady-state value. However, when PEP or F6P is constant, the system evolves toward the formation of stable limit cycles with periods ranging from 0.2 min to hours.
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- J C Diaz Ricci
- Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (CONICET-UNT), Instituto de Química Biológica "Dr. Bernabé Bloj," Facultad de Bioquímica, Química y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
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Prost JF, Cozzone AJ. Detection of an extended-10 element in the promoter region of the pckA gene encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Escherichia coli. Biochimie 1999; 81:197-200. [PMID: 10385000 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(99)80052-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The regulation of transcription of the pckA gene coding for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Escherichia coli was analysed by site-directed mutagenesis of the promoter region and measurement of in vitro transcription initiation. Mutation of the guanine residue at position -14 to either cytosine or thymine was found to result in a drastic decrease of transcription, even in the presence of the natural -35 hexamer TTTCCA that differs by only two nucleotides from the consensus sequence TTGACA. It was concluded that the promoter region of pckA contains an extended -10 module, 5'-TG-3', located one base upstream of the -10 hexamer, which is crucial for transcription.
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- J F Prost
- Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, Lyon, France
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Driscoll BT, Finan TM. Properties of NAD(+)- and NADP(+)-dependent malic enzymes of Rhizobium (Sinorhizobium) meliloti and differential expression of their genes in nitrogen-fixing bacteroids. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 2):489-498. [PMID: 9043124 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-2-489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The wild-type NAD(+)-dependent malic enzyme (dme) gene of Rhizobium (now Sinorhizobium) meliloti was cloned and localized to a 3.1 kb region isolated on the cosmid pTH69. This cosmid complemented the symbiotic nitrogen fixation (Fix-) phenotype of R. meliloti dme mutants. The dme gene was mapped by conjugation to between the cys-11 and leu-53 markers on the R. meliloti chromosome. beta-Galactosidase activities measured in bacterial strains carrying either dme-lacZ or tme-lacZ gene fusions (the tme gene encodes NADP(+)-dependent malic enzyme) indicated that the dme gene was expressed constitutively in free-living cells and in N2-fixing bacteroids whereas expression of the tme gene was repressed in bacteroids. The R. meliloti dme gene product (DME) was overexpressed in and partially purified from Escherichia coli. The properties of this enzyme, together with those of the NADP(+)-dependent malic enzyme (TME) partially purified from R. meliloti dme mutants, were determined. Acetyl-CoA inhibited DME but not TME activity. This result supports the hypothesis that DME, together with pyruvate dehydrogenase, forms a pathway in which malate is converted to acetyl-CoA.
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- Brian T Driscoll
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
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- Department of Biology, McMaster University, 1280 Main St W, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
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The bacterium Rhizobium meliloti, which forms N2-fixing root nodules on alfalfa, has two distinct malic enzymes; one is NADP+ dependent, while a second has maximal activity when NAD+ is the coenzyme. The diphosphopyridine nucleotide (NAD+)-dependent malic enzyme (DME) is required for symbiotic N2 fixation, likely as part of a pathway for the conversion of C4-dicarboxylic acids to acetyl coenzyme A in N2-fixing bacteroids. Here, we report the cloning and localization of the tme gene (encoding the triphosphopyridine nucleotide [NADP+]-dependent malic enzyme) to a 3.7-kb region. We constructed strains carrying insertions within the tme gene region and showed that the NADP+ -dependent malic enzyme activity peak was absent when extracts from these strains were eluted from a DEAE-cellulose chromatography column. We found that NADP+ -dependent malic enzyme activity was not required for N2 fixation, as tme mutants induced N2-fixing root nodules on alfalfa. Moreover, the apparent NADP+ -dependent malic enzyme activity detected in wild-type (N2-fixing) bacteroids was only 20% of the level detected in free-living cells. Much of that residual bacteroid activity appeared to be due to utilization of NADP+ by DME. The functions of DME and the NADP+ -dependent malic enzyme are discussed in light of the above results and the growth phenotypes of various tme and dme mutants.
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- B T Driscoll
- Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Szyperski T. Biosynthetically directed fractional 13C-labeling of proteinogenic amino acids. An efficient analytical tool to investigate intermediary metabolism. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 232:433-48. [PMID: 7556192 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.tb20829.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Biosynthetically directed fractional 13C labeling of proteinogenic amino acids is achieved by expression of proteins on a minimal medium which contains a mixture of [13C6]glucose and glucose with natural isotope abundance as the sole carbon source. Subsequent hydrolysis of the proteins yields the free amino acids. The observation of 13C-13C spin-spin scalar coupling fine structures in sensitive two-dimensional heteronuclear [13C,1H]-correlation spectroscopy (2D [13C,1H]-COSY) allows one to identify non-random 13C-labeling patterns arising from the incorporation of intact two-carbon and three-carbon fragments from a single source molecule of glucose into the amino acids. Since 2D [13C,1H]-COSY suffices to resolve all relevant resonances, the mixture of amino acids can be analyzed without further separation of its components. Probabilistic equations relate the observed multiplet intensities of the 13C fine structures to the relative abundance of the intact carbon fragments. They enable a quantitative analysis of the carbon flux in the network of biosynthetic pathways, thus using the proteinogenic amino acids as probes to study intermediary metabolism. This paper shows that biosynthetically directed fractional 13C labeling of amino acids provides an efficient analytical tool to quantitatively investigate glycolysis, pyruvate metabolism, pentose phosphate pathway, tricarboxylic acid cycle and C1 metabolism. Possible applications of the method include both the exploration of unknown biosynthetic pathways and the rapid elucidation of the response of a known biosynthetic reaction network to changes in growth conditions or genetic manipulations. In conjunction with the relatively low costs for isotopes, manpower and NMR instrument time, this makes biosynthetic fractional 13C labeling of proteinogenic amino acids particularly attractive to support process design and metabolic engineering in biotechnology, since screening procedures become feasible which enable a systematic characterization of the cell's metabolic state as a function of parameters that are involved in the optimization of biotechnological processes.
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- T Szyperski
- Institut für Molekularbiologie und Biophysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Hönggerberg, Zürich, Switzerland
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Finnegan PM, Burnell JN. Isolation and sequence analysis of cDNAs encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from the PCK-type C4 grass Urochloa panicoides. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 27:365-376. [PMID: 7888625 DOI: 10.1007/bf00020190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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A rabbit antiserum was raised against phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PCK) purified from Urochloa panicoides, a PCK-type C4 monocot. The antiserum was used to screen a cDNA expression library constructed from U. panicoides leaf poly(A)+RNA. Inserts from immunoreactive clones were used to rescreen the library and obtain three overlapping cDNAs comprising a 2220 bp composite sequence. The single complete open reading frame of 1872 bp encodes PCK1, a 624 amino acid polypeptide with a predicted molecular mass of 68,474 Da. Comparison of PCK1 with other ATP-dependent PCKs indicates that PCK1 is significantly larger, mainly due to an N-terminal extension of greater than 65 residues, and reveals high sequence identity across the central portion of the protein, especially over seven sub-sequences. One of these sub-sequences spans motifs common to several ATP-utilising enzymes for phosphate and divalent cation binding. The anti-PCK antiserum recognises a 69 kDa polypeptide on immunoblots of either purified PCK or U. panicoides leaf extracts. However, polypeptides of 63, 62, 61 and 60 kDa are also immunoreactive. Amino terminal sequencing of polypeptides from preparations of purified PCK demonstrates that these smaller polypeptides are related to PCK1, and time course experiments show that these polypeptides arise from the breakdown of PCK during isolation. Northern blot analysis indicates that the 2.7 kb PCK mRNA is abundant in green leaves but not in roots or etiolated shoots. Moreover, PCK mRNA levels increase gradually during greening, reaching maximum levels after about 84 h.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic/radiation effects
- Gene Expression Regulation, Plant/radiation effects
- Genes, Plant/genetics
- Light
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Weight
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/chemistry
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/genetics
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/immunology
- Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (GTP)/isolation & purification
- Plant Leaves/chemistry
- Poaceae/enzymology
- Poaceae/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Plant/analysis
- RNA, Plant/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transcription, Genetic/radiation effects
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- P M Finnegan
- Centre for Molecular Biotechnology, School of Life Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
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Beuf L, Bédu S, Durand MC, Joset F. A protein involved in co-ordinated regulation of inorganic carbon and glucose metabolism in the facultative photoautotrophic cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1994; 25:855-864. [PMID: 8075401 DOI: 10.1007/bf00028880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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The involvement of a gene of Synechocystis PCC6803, icfG, in the co-ordinated regulation of inorganic carbon and glucose metabolism, was established. The icfG gene codes for a 72 kDa protein, which shows no homology with those registered in data libraries. Expression of icfG required glucose, the actual inducer probably being glucose-6-phosphate, and was independent of light and of the external inorganic carbon concentration. Mutants carrying an inactivated copy of icfG were constructed. Their growth characteristics were identical to those of the wild type under all regimes except in limiting inorganic carbon with glucose being present either before or after the transfer to the limiting conditions. These conditions completely prevented growth, both in the light and in the dark. The inhibition could be relieved by several intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Assays of various enzymic activities related to inorganic carbon uptake and to its assimilation via either the Calvin cycle or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase did not reveal the level of action of IcfG. Possible models include a blockage of the assimilation of both carbon sources in the absence of IcfG, or the inhibition of Ci incorporation route(s) essential under limiting inorganic carbon conditions, even when glucose is present, and even in the dark.
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- L Beuf
- Unité de Métabolisme Energétique, LCB-CNRS, Marseille, France
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Prüss BM, Nelms JM, Park C, Wolfe AJ. Mutations in NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase of Escherichia coli affect growth on mixed amino acids. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:2143-50. [PMID: 8157582 PMCID: PMC205332 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.8.2143-2150.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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We isolated and characterized mutants defective in nuo, encoding NADH dehydrogenase I, the multisubunit complex homologous to eucaryotic mitochondrial complex I. By Southern hybridization and/or sequence analysis, we characterized three distinct mutations: a polar insertion designated nuoG::Tn10-1, a nonpolar insertion designated nuoF::Km-1, and a large deletion designated delta(nuoFGHIJKL)-1. Cells carrying any of these three mutations exhibited identical phenotypes. Each mutant exhibited reduced NADH oxidase activity, grew poorly on minimal salts medium containing acetate as the sole carbon source, and failed to produce the inner, L-aspartate chemotactic band on tryptone swarm plates. During exponential growth in tryptone broth, nuo mutants grew as rapidly as wild-type cells and excreted similar amounts of acetate into the medium. As they began the transition to stationary phase, in contrast to wild-type cells, the mutant cells abruptly slowed their growth and continued to excrete acetate. The growth defect was entirely suppressed by L-serine or D-pyruvate, partially suppressed by alpha-ketoglutarate or acetate, and not suppressed by L-aspartate or L-glutamate. We extended these studies, analyzing the sequential consumption of amino acids by both wild-type and nuo mutant cells growing in tryptone broth. During the lag and exponential phases, both wild-type and mutant cells consumed, in order, L-serine and L-aspartate. As they began the transition to stationary phase, both cell types consumed L-tryptophan. Whereas wild-type cells then consumed L-glutamate, glycine, L-threonine, and L-alanine, mutant cells utilized these amino acids poorly. We propose that cells defective for NADH dehydrogenase I exhibit all these phenotypes, because large NADH/NAD+ ratios inhibit certain tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes, e.g., citrate synthase and malate dehydrogenase.
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- B M Prüss
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, Illinois 60153
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Iuchi S. Phosphorylation/dephosphorylation of the receiver module at the conserved aspartate residue controls transphosphorylation activity of histidine kinase in sensor protein ArcB of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(20)80480-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Site-directed mutagenesis in rat liver 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase. Mutation at the fructose 6-phosphate binding site affects phosphate activation. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42847-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Stephanopoulos G, Vallino JJ. Network rigidity and metabolic engineering in metabolite overproduction. Science 1991; 252:1675-81. [PMID: 1904627 DOI: 10.1126/science.1904627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 358] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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In order to enhance the yield and productivity of metabolite production, researchers have focused almost exclusively on enzyme amplification or other modifications of the product pathway. However, overproduction of many metabolites requires significant redirection of flux distributions in the primary metabolism, which may not readily occur following product deregulation because metabolic pathways have evolved to exhibit control architectures that resist flux alterations at branch points. This problem can be addressed through the use of some general concepts of metabolic rigidity, which include a means for identifying and removing rigid branch points within an experimental framework.
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- G Stephanopoulos
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Delbaere LT, Vandonselaar M, Glaeske D, Jabs C, Goldie H. Crystallization of the calcium-activated phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from Escherichia coli K12. J Mol Biol 1991; 219:593-4. [PMID: 2056527 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)90654-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Single crystals of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase from Escherichia coli K12 have been grown in the orthorhombic crystal system. Single crystals developed to a maximum size of 0.25 mm x 0.25 mm x 1.5 mm by the technique of washing and reseeding. The space group is P2(1)2(1)2(1), with a = 77.24 A, b = 89.18 A, c = 93.24 A and Z = 4; there is one enzyme molecule per crystallographic asymmetric unit and the solvent content is estimated to be 59%. The crystals diffract to at least 2.8 A d spacings and decompose in the X-ray beam after approximately two days of exposure.
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- L T Delbaere
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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Medina V, Pontarollo R, Glaeske D, Tabel H, Goldie H. Sequence of the pckA gene of Escherichia coli K-12: relevance to genetic and allosteric regulation and homology of E. coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase with the enzymes from Trypanosoma brucei and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:7151-6. [PMID: 1701430 PMCID: PMC210840 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.12.7151-7156.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The sequence of the pckA gene coding for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Escherichia coli K-12 and previous molecular weight determinations indicate that this allosteric enzyme is a monomer of Mr 51,316. The protein is homologous to ATP-dependent phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinases from Trypanosoma brucei and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A potential ATP binding site was conserved in all three sequences. A potential binding site for the allosteric activator, calcium, identified in the E. coli enzyme, was only partially conserved in T. brucei and S. cerevisiae, consistent with the observation that the enzymes from the latter organisms were not activated by calcium. The published sequence of the ompR and envZ genes from Salmonella typhimurium is followed by a partial sequence that is highly homologous to pckA from E. coli. The order of these genes and the direction of transcription of the presumptive S. typhimurium pckA gene are the same as those in E. coli. The potential calcium binding site of the E. coli enzyme is conserved in the partial predicted sequence of the S. typhimurium phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, consistent with the observation that calcium activation of the S. typhimurium phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is very similar to that observed for the E. coli enzyme. A pckA mRNA transcript was observed in stationary-phase cells but not in logarithmically growing cells. The mRNA start site was mapped relative to the sequence of the pckA structural gene.
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- V Medina
- Department of Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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McDermott TR, Griffith SM, Vance CP, Graham PH. Carbon metabolism inBradyrhizobium japonicumbacteroids. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1989. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1989.tb03403.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Sorribas A, Savageau MA. Strategies for representing metabolic pathways within biochemical systems theory: reversible pathways. Math Biosci 1989; 94:239-69. [PMID: 2520170 DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(89)90066-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The search for systematic methods to deal with the integrated behavior of complex biochemical systems has over the past two decades led to the proposal of several theories of biochemical systems. Among the most promising is biochemical systems theory (BST). Recent comparisons of this theory with several others that have recently been proposed have demonstrated that all are variants of BST and share a common underlying formalism. Hence, the different variants can be precisely related and ranked according to their completeness and operational utility. The original and most fruitful variant within BST is based on a particular representation, called an S-system (for synergistic and saturable systems), that exhibits many advantages not found among alternative representations. Even within the preferred S-system representation there are options, depending on the method of aggregating fluxes, that become especially apparent when one considers reversible pathways. In this paper we focus on the paradigm situation and clearly distinguish the two most common strategies for generating an S-system representation. The first is called the "reversible" strategy because it involves aggregating incoming fluxes separately from outgoing fluxes for each metabolite to define a net flux that can be positive, negative, or zero. The second is the "irreversible" strategy, which involves aggregating forward and reverse fluxes through each reaction to define a net flux that is always positive. This second strategy has been used almost exclusively in all variants of BST. The principal results of detailed analyses are the following: (1) All S-system representations predict the same changes in dependent concentrations for a given change in an independent concentration. (2) The reversible strategy is superior to the irreversible on the basis of several criteria, including accuracy in predicting steady-state flux, accuracy in predicting transient responses, and robustness of representation. (3) Only the reversible strategy yields a representation that is able to capture the characteristic feature of amphibolic pathways, namely, the reversal of nets flux under physiological conditions. Finally, the results document the wide range of variation over which the S-system representation can accurately predict the behavior of intact biochemical systems and confirm similar results of earlier studies [Voit and Savageau, Biochemistry 26: 6869-6880 (1987)].
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Valdez BC, Chang SH, Younathan ES. Site-directed mutagenesis at the regulatory site of fructose 6-phosphate-1-kinase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 156:537-42. [PMID: 2972287 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(88)80875-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have mutated Arg-25, Asp-59 and Arg-211 to alanine; and Asp-59 also to methionine, in fructose 6-phosphate-1-kinase from B. stearothermophilus (designated as RA25, DA59, RA211 and DM59 respectively). All four mutants did not change the affinity of the enzyme for ATP. RA25 has half the affinity for fructose 6-phosphate and exhibits sigmoidicity with respect to this substrate (Hill # = 2.0). DA59 has the same affinity for phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) as the wild type whereas DM59 has 3-fold the affinity for this modulator and the inhibition is reversed by GDP. RA25 and RA211 are 100-fold less sensitive to PEP inhibition which is not relieved by GDP. It is concluded that Arg-25 and Arg-211, but not Asp-59, are involved in the direct binding of PEP and GDP.
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- B C Valdez
- Department of Biochemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803
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Zerez CR, Moul DE, Gomez EG, Lopez VM, Andreoli AJ. Negative modulation of Escherichia coli NAD kinase by NADPH and NADH. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:184-8. [PMID: 3025169 PMCID: PMC211751 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.1.184-188.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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NAD kinase was purified 93-fold from Escherichia coli. The enzyme was found to have a pH optimum of 7.2 and an apparent Km for NAD+, ATP, and Mg2+ of 1.9, 2.1, and 4.1 mM, respectively. Several compounds including quinolinic acid, nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, nicotinamide mononucleotide, AMP, ADP, and NADP+ did not affect NAD kinase activity. The enzyme was not affected by changes in the adenylate energy charge. In contrast, both NADH and NADPH were potent negative modulators of the enzyme, since their presence at micromolar concentrations resulted in a pronounced sigmoidal NAD+ saturation curve. In addition, the presence of a range of concentrations of the reduced nucleotides resulted in an increase of the Hill slope (nH) to 1.7 to 2.0 with NADH and to 1.8 to 2.1 with NADPH, suggesting that NAD kinase is an allosteric enzyme. These results indicate that NAD kinase activity is regulated by the availability of ATP, NAD+, and Mg2+ and, more significantly, by changes in the NADP+/NADPH and NAD+/NADH ratios. Thus, NAD kinase probably plays a role in the regulation of NADP turnover and pool size in E. coli.
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Danchin A, Dondon L, Daniel J. Metabolic alterations mediated by 2-ketobutyrate in Escherichia coli K12. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1984; 193:473-8. [PMID: 6369074 DOI: 10.1007/bf00382086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We have previously proposed that 2-ketobutyrate is an alarmone in Escherichia coli. Circumstantial evidence suggested that the target of 2-ketobutyrate was the phosphoenol pyruvate: glycose phosphotransferase system (PTS). We demonstrate here that the phosphorylated metabolites of the glycolytic pathway experience a dramatic downshift upon addition of 2-ketobutyrate (or its analogues). In particular, fructose-1,6-diphosphate, glucose-6-phosphate, fructose-6-phosphate and acetyl-CoA concentrations drop by a factor of 10, 3, 4, and 5 respectively. This result is consistent with (i) an inhibition of the PTS by 2-ketobutyrate, (ii) a control of metabolism by fructose-1,6-diphosphate. Since fructose-1,6-diphosphate is an activator of phosphoenol pyruvate carboxylase and of pyruvate kinase, the concentration of their common substrate, phosphoenol pyruvate, does not decrease in parallel.
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The role of protein induction and repression in the adaptation of Escherichia coli to changes in the supply of oxygen and other electron acceptors is only poorly understood. We have studied the changes in cellular protein composition associated with this adaptation by measuring the levels of 170 individual polypeptides produced during aerobic or anaerobic growth of E. coli, with and without nitrate. Nineteen polypeptides had levels highest during aerobic growth. These proteins include the enzymes of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, several tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes, superoxide dismutase, and tetrahydropteroyltriglutamate transmethylase. The other aerobiosis-induced proteins have not been identified. These polypeptides are major cellular proteins during aerobic growth and display several different patterns of regulation in response to medium composition. Induction ratios for oxygen ranged from 2.2 to 11.2, with one exceptional member, superoxide dismutase, increasing 71-fold with aeration. Most of the proteins were also induced by nitrate during anaerobic growth. The time course of induction after shifts in oxygen supply revealed similarities in response among proteins of related function or metabolic regulation class. These results are discussed in relation to previously reported information on the identified aerobiosis-induced proteins.
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The contribution of protein induction and repression to the adaptation of cells to changes in oxygen supply is only poorly understood. We assessed this contribution by measuring the levels of 170 individual polypeptides produced by Escherichia coli K-12 in cells growing aerobically or anaerobically with and without nitrate. Eighteen reached their highest levels during anaerobic growth. These 18 polypeptides include at least 4 glycolytic enzymes and pyruvate formate-lyase (beta-subunit). Most of these proteins were found at significant levels during aerobic growth and appeared to undergo metabolic regulation by stimuli other than anaerobiosis. Anaerobic induction ratios ranged from 1.8- to 11-fold, and nitrate antagonized the anaerobic induction of all of the proteins except one. The time course of synthesis of the proteins after shifts in oxygen supply revealed at least three distinct temporal patterns. These results are discussed in light of known physiological alterations associated with changes in oxygen availability.
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Grantham WC, Brown AT. Ammonia utilization by a proposed bacterial pathogen in human periodontal disease, Capnocytophaga ochracea. Arch Oral Biol 1983; 28:327-38. [PMID: 6576737 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9969(83)90075-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Capnocytophaga ochracea strain 25 was originally isolated from a patient with severe juvenile periodontitis. An NAD-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) (EC 1.4.1.2.) was found in cell-free extracts from this organism. The NADH-dependent reductive, or ammonia-assimilating activity (NADH-GDH), of the enzyme was 8-10-fold higher than its NAD-dependent oxidative, or ammonia-releasing activity (NAD-GDH), suggesting that the primary physiological role of the GDH is ammonia-fixing. Capnocytophaga ochracea GDH was purified approximately 39-fold by a rapid, single-step purification procedure using DEAE-cellulose (DE52) ion-exchange column chromatography which gave 90 per cent recovery of total enzyme units. Paper chromatography of an NADH-GDH assay mixture containing the partially purified enzyme showed that glutamate was, indeed, a product of the ammonia-assimilating reaction. The pH optimum for the NAD-GDH reaction was 9.0; that for the NADH-GDH reaction was 7.5. Although a number of mono- and divalent cations were tested, none had a large effect on either NAD-GDH or NADH-GDH activity. The NAD-GDH reaction showed a hyperbolic kinetic response to glutamate and NAD and the Km values for glutamate and NAD were 2.44 and 0.083 mM respectively. The kinetic response of the NADH-GDH reaction to NADH, alpha-ketoglutarate and ammonium chloride also obeyed Michaelis-Menten kinetics and their respective Km values were 0.069, 1.44 and 3.33 mM. Of a number of biologically-active compounds tested for their ability to modulate GDH activity, only ADP and NAD exerted much effect. The NADH-GDH activity showed a negative hyperbolic kinetic response to both ADP and NAD and Dixon plot-analysis of the NAD and ADP saturation data gave Ki values for ADP and NAD of 4.0 and 0.46 mM respectively. Both NAD and ADP appeared to exert their negative effects on NADH-GDH activity by completely inhibiting the binding of the reduced coenzyme, NADH, to the enzyme.
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McAlister LE, Evans EL, Smith TE. Properties of a mutant Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase deficient in coregulation by intermediary metabolites. J Bacteriol 1981; 146:200-8. [PMID: 7012114 PMCID: PMC217070 DOI: 10.1128/jb.146.1.200-208.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase of Escherichia coli is activated by three different mechanisms: contiguous by acetyl coenzyme A, precursor by fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, and compensatory feedback by cytidine 5'-diphosphate (CDP). Even though each activator can interact independently with the enzyme, synergistic effects are observed with some combinations, namely, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate or CDP (coregulators), with acetyl coenzyme A. A mutant was isolated that has a phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase which is refractory to activation by fructose, 1,6-bisphosphate and CDP. The mutant enzyme was shown to be active primarily as the dimer and to lack cooperativity in substrate binding. The binding of acetyl coenzyme A and substrate, however, was essentially the same as that of the wild-type enzyme. The mutant cells grew extremely slowly on glucose alone as the sole carbon source. The only defect in the mutant appeared to be the inability of this enzyme to be activated by the coregulators. These data are consistent with the thesis that coregulation by fructose 1,6-bisphosphate or CDP is an essential requirement for the activation in vivo of this enzyme.
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Foster JW. Pyridine nucleotide cycle of Salmonella typhimurium: in vitro demonstration of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide glycohydrolase, nicotinamide mononucleotide glycohydrolase, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide pyrophosphatase activities. J Bacteriol 1981; 145:1002-9. [PMID: 6109709 PMCID: PMC217210 DOI: 10.1128/jb.145.2.1002-1009.1981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Extracts of Salmonella typhimurium were chromatographed by using Sephadex G-150 to separate the various enzymes involved with pyridine nucleotide cycle metabolism. This procedure revealed a previously unsuspected nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) glycohydrolase (EC 3.2.2.5) activity, which was not observed in crude extracts. In contrast to NAd glycohydrolase, NAD pyrophosphatase (EC 3.6.1.22) was readily measured in crude extracts. This enzyme possessed a native molecular weight of 120,000. Other enzymes examined included nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) deamidase (EC 3.5.1.00), molecular weight of 43,000; NMN glycohydrolase (EC 3.2.2.14), molecular weight of 67,000; nicotinic acid phosphoribosyl transferase (EC 2.4.2.11), molecular weight of 47,000; and nicotinamide deamidase (EC 3.5.1.19), molecular weight of 35,000. NMN deamidase and NMN glycohydrolase activities were both examined for end product repression by measuring their activities in crude extracts prepared from cells grown with and without 10(-5) M nicotinic acid. No repression was observed with either activity. Both activities were also examined for feedback inhibition by NAD, reduced NAD, and NADP. NMN deamidase was unaffected by any of the compounds tested. NMN glycohydrolase was greatly inhibited by NAD and reduced NAD, whereas NADP was much less effective. Inhibition of NMN glycohydrolase was found to level off at an NAD concentration of ca. 1 mN, the approximate intracellular concentration of NAD.
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Tuhácková Z, Hradec J. Cholesteryl esters are bound by a peptide-initiation and a peptide-elongation factor. Biochem J 1980; 192:369-72. [PMID: 6914194 PMCID: PMC1162344 DOI: 10.1042/bj1920369] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Significantly higher quantities of cholesteryl 14-methylhexadecanoate than of cholesteryl laurate and cholesteryl palmitate are bound by a homogeneous peptide-initiation factor and purified peptide-elongation factor 1. Cholesteryl 14-methylhexadecanoate may function as a specific allosteric modifier changing the conformation of protein synthesis factors and thus modulating the activity of their binding sites.
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Malic enzyme of the phototropic bacterium Chromatium vinosum strain D that lacks malate dehydrogenase was partially purified yielding a specific activity of 55 units/mg protein. The constitutive enzyme with a molecular weight of 110,000 and a pH optimum of 8.0 was absolutely dependent on the presence of a monovalent cation (NH4+, K+, Cs+, or Rb+) as well as a divalent cation (Mn2+, or Mg2+). The enzyme was inhibited by oxaloacetate, glyoxyate, and NADPH. The K0.5 value for L-malate and the inhibition constants for oxaloacetate and glyoxylate are dependent on the concentration of the monovalent cation, whereas the Km value for NADP (18 microM) and the KI value for NADPH (42 microM) are independent. Throughout all kinetic measurements hyperbolic saturation curves and linear double reciprocal plots were obtained.
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Smith T, Balasubramanian K, Beezley A. Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. Studies on the mechanism of synergistic activation by nucleotides. J Biol Chem 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)86080-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Goldie A, Sanwal B. Allosteric control by calcium and mechanism of desensitization of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase of Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1980. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)86044-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Foster JW, Moat AG. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide biosynthesis and pyridine nucleotide cycle metabolism in microbial systems. Microbiol Rev 1980; 44:83-105. [PMID: 6997723 PMCID: PMC373235 DOI: 10.1128/mr.44.1.83-105.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Rao VM, Maggon KK, Venkitasubramanian TA. Oxidases in Aspergillus parasiticus in relation to aflatoxin biosynthesis. Toxicon 1980; 18:279-83. [PMID: 7394817 DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(80)90006-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Krishna RV, Leisinger T. Biosynthesis of proline in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Partial purification and characterization of gamma-glutamyl kinase. Biochem J 1979; 181:215-22. [PMID: 226082 PMCID: PMC1161143 DOI: 10.1042/bj1810215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A gamma-glutamyl kinase (ATP-L-glutamate 5-phosphotransferase) was purified about 85-fold from crude extracts of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO 1 by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation, molecular-sieving by Sephadex G-150 and DEAE-cellulose chromatography. The molecular weight of this enzyme was 84,000. The preparation catalysed formation of gamma-glutamyl hydroxamate from L-glutamate, ATP and Mg2+ or Mn2+ with concomitant hydrolysis of ATP to ADP + Pi. L-Proline inhibited the gamma-glutamyl kinase activity by 50% at 5 mM and almost completely at 30 mM. The inhibition of L-proline was non-competitive, wherease L-methionine-DL-sulphoximine inhibited the enzyme competitively. Proline was found to inhibit the gamma-glutamyl kinase activity of the wild-type strain and of representatives of two of the three transductional classes of proline-auxotrophic mutants. Strain PAO 879, a mutant representing the third transductional class of proline auxotrophs, lacked proline-inhibitible gamma-glutamyl kinase. Thiol-blocking reagents inhibited the gamma-glutamyl kinase and this effect was prevented by dithiothreitol.
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Thomas TD, Ellwood DC, Longyear VM. Change from homo- to heterolactic fermentation by Streptococcus lactis resulting from glucose limitation in anaerobic chemostat cultures. J Bacteriol 1979; 138:109-17. [PMID: 108249 PMCID: PMC218245 DOI: 10.1128/jb.138.1.109-117.1979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 268] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Lactic streptococci, classically regarded as homolactic fermenters of glucose and lactose, became heterolactic when grown with limiting carbohydrate concentrations in a chemostat. At high dilution rates (D) with excess glucose present, about 95% of the fermented sugar was converted to l-lactate. However, as D was lowered and glucose became limiting, five of the six strains tested changed to a heterolactic fermentation such that at D = 0.1 h(-1) as little as 1% of the glucose was converted to l-lactate. The products formed after this phenotypic change in fermentation pattern were formate, acetate, and ethanol. The level of lactate dehydrogenase, which is dependent upon ketohexose diphosphate for activity, decreased as fermentation became heterolactic with Streptococcus lactis ML(3). Transfer of heterolactic cells from the chemostat to buffer containing glucose resulted in the nongrowing cells converting nearly 80% of the glucose to l-lactate, indicating that fine control of enzyme activity is an important factor in the fermentation change. These nongrowing cells metabolizing glucose had elevated (ca. twofold) intracellular fructose 1,6-diphosphate concentrations ([FDP](in)) compared with those in the glucose-limited heterolactic cells in the chemostat. [FDP](in) was monitored during the change in fermentation pattern observed in the chemostat when glucose became limiting. Cells converting 95 and 1% of the glucose to l-lactate contained 25 and 10 mM [FDP](in), respectively. It is suggested that factors involved in the change to heterolactic fermentation include both [FDP](in) and the level of lactate dehydrogenase.
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