FACTORS AFFECTING ASPARTASE ACTIVITY
- 1 September 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 82 (3), 383-+
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.82.3.383-386.1961
Abstract
Cells of Escherichia coli growth in a glucose-mineral salts medium contain about one-fifth the amount of aspartase activity observed in cells grown in a yeast extract-peptone medium. The aspartase activity of the cells grown in glucose-salts medium would appear to be too low to provide a mechanism for synthesis of amino groups. Aspartase was purified approximately eightfold by ammonium sulfate precipitation and column chromatography of cell-free extracts. The purified preparation was specific for L-aspartic acid and contained no fumarase activity. A divalent metal ion requirement was demonstrated, this requirement being satisfied by cobaltous or manganous ions. The enzyme activity was found to be dependent upon free sulfhydryl groups. Biotin did not appear to be directly involved in the aspartase reaction since high concentrations of avidin did not alter the reaction rate. The Michaelis constant for aspartase with aspartic acid as substrate was determined to be 0.033 M.Keywords
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