Catabolic N2-acetylornithine 5-aminotransferase of Klebsiella aerogenes: control of synthesis by induction, catabolite repression, and activation by glutamine synthetase
- 1 February 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 133 (2), 686-691
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.133.2.686-691.1978
Abstract
K. aerogenes formed 2 N2-acetylornithine 5-aminotransferases [EC 2.6.1.11] (ACOAT) which were separable by DEAE-cellulose chromatography. One ACOAT was repressed when the cells grew on arginine-containing medium, indicating its function in arginine biosynthesis. The 2nd ACOAT was induced when arginine or ornithine was present in the medium as the sole source of C or N, suggesting its function in the catabolism of these compounds. The induced enzyme was purified almost to homogeneity. Its MW is 59,000; it is a pyridoxal 5-phosphate-dependent enzyme and exhibits activity with N2-acetylornithine (Km = 1.1 mM) as well as with ornithine (Km = 5.4 mM). ACOAT did not catalyze the transamination of putrescine or 4-aminobutyrate. The best amino acceptor was 2-ketoglutarate (Km = 0.7 mM). ACOAT formation was subject to catabolite repression exerted by glucose when NH3 was present in excess. When the cells were deprived of N, ACOAT escaped from catabolite repression. This activation was mediated by glutamine synthetase as shown by the fact that mutants affected in the regulation or synthesis of glutamine synthetase were also affected in the control of ACOAT formation.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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