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Narang A. Quantitative effect and regulatory function of cyclic adenosine 5'-phosphate in Escherichia coli. J Biosci 2009; 34:445-63. [PMID: 19805906 DOI: 10.1007/s12038-009-0051-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Cyclic adenosine 5'-phosphate (cAMP) is a global regulator of gene expression in Escherichia coli. Despite decades of intensive study, the quantitative effect and regulatory function of cAMP remain the subjects of considerable debate. Here, we analyse the data in the literature to show that: (a) In carbon-limited cultures (including cultures limited by glucose), cAMP is at near-saturation levels with respect to expression of several catabolic promoters (including lac, ara and gal). It follows that cAMP receptor protein (CRP) cAMP-mediated regulation cannot account for the strong repression of these operons in the presence of glucose. (b) The cAMP levels in carbon-excess cultures are substantially lower than those observed in carbon-limited cultures under these conditions, the expression of catabolic promoters is very sensitive to variation of cAMP levels. (c)=CRPcAMP invariably activates the expression of catabolic promoters, but it appears to inhibit the expression of anabolic promoters. (d) These results suggest that the physiological function of cAMP is to maintain homeostatic energy levels. In carbon-limited cultures, growth is limited by the supply of energy; the cAMP levels therefore increase to enhance energy accumulation by activating the catabolic promoters and inhibiting the anabolic promoters. Conversely, in carbonexcess cultures, characterized by the availability of excess energy, the cAMP levels decrease in order to depress energy accumulation by inhibiting the catabolic promoters and activating the anabolic promoters.
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- Atul Narang
- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India.
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cAMP does not have an important role in carbon catabolite repression of the Escherichia coli lac operon. Nat Rev Microbiol 2009; 7:250. [PMID: 19230236 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1932-c3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Gene regulation in continuous cultures: a unified theory for bacteria and yeasts. Bull Math Biol 2008; 71:453-514. [PMID: 19067083 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-008-9369-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2008] [Accepted: 10/29/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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During batch growth on mixtures of two growth-limiting substrates, microbes consume the substrates either sequentially (diauxie) or simultaneously. The ubiquity of these growth patterns suggests that they may be driven by a universal mechanism common to all microbial species. Recently, we showed that a minimal model accounting only for enzyme induction and dilution, the two processes that occur in all microbes, explains the phenotypes observed in batch cultures of various wild-type and mutant/recombinant cells (Narang and Pilyugin in J. Theor. Biol. 244:326-348, 2007). Here, we examine the extension of the minimal model to continuous cultures. We show that: (1) Several enzymatic trends, attributed entirely to cross-regulatory mechanisms, such as catabolite repression and inducer exclusion, can be quantitatively explained by enzyme dilution. (2) The bifurcation diagram of the minimal model for continuous cultures, which classifies the substrate consumption pattern at any given dilution rate and feed concentrations, provides a precise explanation for the empirically observed correlations between the growth patterns in batch and continuous cultures. (3) Numerical simulations of the model are in excellent agreement with the data. The model captures the variation of the steady state substrate concentrations, cell densities, and enzyme levels during the single- and mixed-substrate growth of bacteria and yeasts at various dilution rates and feed concentrations. This variation is well approximated by simple analytical expressions that furnish deep physical insights. (4) Since the minimal model describes the behavior of the cells in the absence of cross-regulatory mechanisms, it provides a rigorous framework for quantifying the effect of these mechanisms. We illustrate this by analyzing several data sets from the literature.
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Deutscher J, Francke C, Postma PW. How phosphotransferase system-related protein phosphorylation regulates carbohydrate metabolism in bacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2007; 70:939-1031. [PMID: 17158705 PMCID: PMC1698508 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00024-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 967] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The phosphoenolpyruvate(PEP):carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) is found only in bacteria, where it catalyzes the transport and phosphorylation of numerous monosaccharides, disaccharides, amino sugars, polyols, and other sugar derivatives. To carry out its catalytic function in sugar transport and phosphorylation, the PTS uses PEP as an energy source and phosphoryl donor. The phosphoryl group of PEP is usually transferred via four distinct proteins (domains) to the transported sugar bound to the respective membrane component(s) (EIIC and EIID) of the PTS. The organization of the PTS as a four-step phosphoryl transfer system, in which all P derivatives exhibit similar energy (phosphorylation occurs at histidyl or cysteyl residues), is surprising, as a single protein (or domain) coupling energy transfer and sugar phosphorylation would be sufficient for PTS function. A possible explanation for the complexity of the PTS was provided by the discovery that the PTS also carries out numerous regulatory functions. Depending on their phosphorylation state, the four proteins (domains) forming the PTS phosphorylation cascade (EI, HPr, EIIA, and EIIB) can phosphorylate or interact with numerous non-PTS proteins and thereby regulate their activity. In addition, in certain bacteria, one of the PTS components (HPr) is phosphorylated by ATP at a seryl residue, which increases the complexity of PTS-mediated regulation. In this review, we try to summarize the known protein phosphorylation-related regulatory functions of the PTS. As we shall see, the PTS regulation network not only controls carbohydrate uptake and metabolism but also interferes with the utilization of nitrogen and phosphorus and the virulence of certain pathogens.
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- Josef Deutscher
- Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, INRA-CNRS-INA PG UMR 2585, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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Lin H, Hoffmann F, Rozkov A, Enfors SO, Rinas U, Neubauer P. Change of extracellular cAMP concentration is a sensitive reporter for bacterial fitness in high-cell-density cultures of Escherichia coli. Biotechnol Bioeng 2005; 87:602-13. [PMID: 15352058 DOI: 10.1002/bit.20152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Guanosine-3',5'-tetraphosphate (ppGpp) and sigmaS, two regulators of the starvation response of Escherichia coli, have received increasing attention for monitoring cell physiological changes in production processes, although both are difficult to quantify. The kinetics of cAMP formation and degradation were not yet investigated in such processes, although the complex regulation of cAMP by synthesis, release, and degradation in connection with straightforward methods for analysis renders it a highly informative target. Therefore, we followed the cAMP concentration in various nonrecombinant and in four different recombinant glucose-limited fed-batch processes in different production scales. The intracellular cAMP concentration increases strongly at the end of the batch phase. Most cAMP is released to the cultivation medium. The rates of accumulation and degradation of extracellular cAMP are growth-rate-dependent and show a distinct maximum at a growth rate of about 0.35 h(-1). At very low growth rates, below 0.05 h(-1), extracellular cAMP is not produced but rather degraded, independent of whether this low growth rate is caused by glucose limitation or by the high metabolic load of recombinant protein production. In contrast to intracellular cAMP, which is highly unstable, analysis of extracellular cAMP is simpler and the kinetics of accumulation and degradation reflect well the physiological situation, including unlimited growth, limitation, and severe starvation of a production host.
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- Hongying Lin
- Institut für Biotechnologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Ushiba Y, Ohta H. Ecophysiology of the Oral Opportunistic Pathogen Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans with Special Emphasis on Leukotoxin Production. Microbes Environ 2004. [DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.19.190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Yuuji Ushiba
- Department of Bioresource Science, Ibaraki University College of Agriculture
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- Department of Bioresource Science, Ibaraki University College of Agriculture
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Kuo JT, Chang YJ, Tseng CP. Growth rate regulation of lac operon expression in Escherichia coli is cyclic AMP dependent. FEBS Lett 2003; 553:397-402. [PMID: 14572658 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01071-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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In contrast to the ribosomal RNA gene expression increasing with growth rate, transcription of the lac operon is downregulated by cell growth rate. In continuous culture, growth rate regulation of lac promoter was independent of carbon substrate used and its location on the chromosome. Since the lac operon is activated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), which decreases with increasing cell growth rate, expression of plac-lacZ reporter fusion was analyzed in cya mutant under various growth conditions. The results demonstrated that expression of plac-lacZ in cya mutant was both lower and growth rate independent. In addition, ppGpp (guanosine tetraphosphate) was not involved in the mechanism of growth rate regulation of the lac promoter. Thus, the results of this study indicate that cAMP mediates the growth rate-dependent regulation of lac operon expression in Escherichia coli.
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- Jong-Tar Kuo
- Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, 75 PO-Ai Street, Hsin-Chu, R.O.C., Taiwan
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Inoue T, Tanimoto I, Tada T, Ohashi T, Fukui K, Ohta H. Fermentable-sugar-level-dependent regulation of leukotoxin synthesis in a variably toxic strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2001; 147:2749-2756. [PMID: 11577154 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-10-2749] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, a Gram-negative periodontopathic bacterium, produces a leukotoxin belonging to the RTX family. The production of leukotoxin varies greatly among different strains of this species and under different culture conditions. A toxin-production-variable strain, 301-b, stably produces significant amounts of leukotoxin in anaerobic fructose-limited chemostat cultures, but does not do so in the presence of excess fructose. This communication describes the cloning and sequencing of the leukotoxin promoter region from 301-b, showing that this strain has a promoter region similar to that from strain 652, a moderately toxic strain. Northern blot analysis using a leukotoxin gene probe demonstrated that change in toxin production in response to the level of external fructose was due to alteration in the transcriptional level of the leukotoxin gene. Pulsing of fructose into the fructose-limited chemostat culture remarkably reduced the intracellular cAMP level from 40 pmol (mg dry wt cells)(-1) to 3.1 pmol (mg dry wt cells)(-1), which was restored when the culture was returned to fructose-limited conditions. Further, it was found that addition of external cAMP to the culture with excess fructose resulted in an apparent recovery of leukotoxin production. Taken together, these findings indicate that a cAMP-dependent mechanism, possibly a catabolite-repression-like system, may be involved in the regulation of leukotoxin production in this bacterium.
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- Tetsuyoshi Inoue
- Departments of Microbiology1, Preventive Dentistry2 and Periodontology and Endodontology3, Okayama University Dental School, Shikata-cho 2-chome, Okayama 700-8525, Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology1, Preventive Dentistry2 and Periodontology and Endodontology3, Okayama University Dental School, Shikata-cho 2-chome, Okayama 700-8525, Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology1, Preventive Dentistry2 and Periodontology and Endodontology3, Okayama University Dental School, Shikata-cho 2-chome, Okayama 700-8525, Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology1, Preventive Dentistry2 and Periodontology and Endodontology3, Okayama University Dental School, Shikata-cho 2-chome, Okayama 700-8525, Japan
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- Departments of Microbiology1, Preventive Dentistry2 and Periodontology and Endodontology3, Okayama University Dental School, Shikata-cho 2-chome, Okayama 700-8525, Japan
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- Laboratory of Microbial Ecology, Department of Bioresource Science, Ibaraki University School of Agriculture, Ami-machi, Ibaraki 300-0393, Japan4
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Notley-McRobb L, Death A, Ferenci T. The relationship between external glucose concentration and cAMP levels inside Escherichia coli: implications for models of phosphotransferase-mediated regulation of adenylate cyclase. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 6):1909-1918. [PMID: 9202467 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-6-1909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The concentration of glucose in the medium influences the regulation of cAMP levels in Escherichia coli. Growth in minimal medium with micromolar glucose results in 8- to 10-fold higher intracellular cAMP concentrations than observed during growth with excess glucose. Current models would suggest that the difference in cAMP levels between glucose-rich and glucose-limited states is due to altered transport flux through the phosphoenolpyruvate: glucose phosphotransferase system (PTS), which in turn controls adenylate cyclase. A consequence of this model is that cAMP levels should be inversely related to the saturation of the PTS transporter. To test this hypothesis, the relationship between external glucose concentration and cAMP levels inside E. coli were investigated in detail, both through direct cAMP assay and indirectly through measurement of expression of cAMP-regulated genes. Responses were followed in batch, dialysis and glucose-limited continuous culture. A sharp rise in intracellular cAMP occurred when the nutrient concentration in minimal medium dropped to approximately 0.3 mM glucose. Likewise, addition of > 0.3 mM glucose, but not < 0.3 mM glucose, sharply reduced the intracellular cAMP level of starving bacteria. There was no striking shift in growth rate or [14C] glucose assimilation in bacteria passing through the 0.5 to 0.3 mM concentration threshold influencing cAMP levels, suggesting that neither metabolic flux nor transporter saturation influenced the sensing of nutrient levels. The (IIA/IIBC)Glc PTS is 96-97% saturated at 0.3 mM glucose so these results are not easily reconcilable with current models of cAMP regulation. Aside from the transition in cAMP levels initiated above 0.3 mM, a second shift occurred below 1 muM glucose. Approaching starvation, well below saturation of the PTS, cAMP levels either increased or decreased depending on unknown factors that differ between common E. coli K-12 strains.
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- Lucinda Notley-McRobb
- Department of Microbiology G08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology G08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology G08, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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Dumay V, Crasnier M. Role of the phosphotransferase system in Escherichia coli strains deficient in hexose phosphate transport. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994; 116:209-14. [PMID: 8150265 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb06702.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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In Escherichia coli, glucose 6-phosphate is transported via the Uhp system which is inducible by glucose 6-phosphate. We showed that, in a uhp-deficient strain, glucose 6-phosphate was dephosphorylated in the periplasm and that the resulting glucose was subsequently transported into the cells via the phosphotransferase system. The uptake of glucose generated from glucose 6-phosphate allowed the bacteria to produce an increased level of cAMP compared to cells grown on non-limiting concentrations of glucose.
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- V Dumay
- Unité de Régulation de l'Expression Génétique (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Associée 1129), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Wilson RB, Renault G, Jacquet M, Tatchell K. The pde2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is allelic to rca1 and encodes a phosphodiesterase which protects the cell from extracellular cAMP. FEBS Lett 1993; 325:191-5. [PMID: 8391474 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(93)81071-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The high affinity cAMP phosphodiesterase, encoded by PDE2, is an important component of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase signaling system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. An unexpected phenotype of pde2 mutants is sensitivity to external cAMP. This trait has been found independently for rca1 mutants and has been used to monitor the effects of cAMP on several biological processes. We demonstrate here that RCA1 is identical to PDE2. Further analysis of the phenotype of pde2 deletions reveal that exogenously added cAMP results in an increase in the internal level of cAMP. This increase slows down the rate of cell division by increasing the length of the G1 phase of the cell cycle and leads to increased cell volume. Also, cells with a disrupted PDE2 gene previously arrested by nutrient starvation rapidly lose thermotolerance when incubated with exogenous cAMP. From these observations we propose that a role of the PDE2-encoded phosphodiesterase may be to help insulate the internal cAMP pools from the external environment. This protective role might also be important in other eukaryotic organisms where cAMP is a key second messenger.
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- R B Wilson
- Department of Pathology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-4283
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Hengge-Aronis R, Fischer D. Identification and molecular analysis of glgS, a novel growth-phase-regulated and rpoS-dependent gene involved in glycogen synthesis in Escherichia coli. Mol Microbiol 1992; 6:1877-86. [PMID: 1324388 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb01360.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The putative stationary-phase sigma factor (sigma S) encoded by rpoS is essential for glycogen synthesis, but is not required for the transcription of glgC and glgA, which encode ADP-glucose-pyrophosphorylase and glycogen synthase, respectively. Using a mini-Mu random chromosomal library and a screen for glycogen overproduction, we identified a novel gene (glgS) involved in glycogen synthesis. glgS maps at 66.6 min (3247 kb) on the chromosome and constitutes a monocistronic operon. It encodes a hydrophilic and highly charged small protein, with a molecular weight of 7886, which is strongly expressed in minicells. Experiments with single-copy chromosomal glgS::lacZ gene fusions indicated that glgS expression is controlled by sigma S as well as by cAMP. Two transcriptional start sites were mapped in the upstream regulatory region of glgS. The glgSp1 transcript was absent in a cya mutant, whereas an rpoS mutant did not synthesize the glgSp2 transcript. Although glycogen synthesis is strongly stimulated by overproduction of GlgS and is inhibited by a glgS null mutation, glgS does not affect the expression of the glgCAP operon. Its potential role in the metabolic control of glycogen synthesis is discussed. Also, evidence is presented to show that the amount of glycogen accumulated in vivo in early stationary-phase cells is mainly determined by sigma S-controlled gene expression and allosteric activation of GlgC, whereas the absolute levels of expression of glgCAP as well as the intracellular concentration of cAMP are of minor importance.
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Ahmad D, Newman EB. A deficiency in cyclic AMP results in pH-sensitive growth of Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 1988; 170:3443-7. [PMID: 2841287 PMCID: PMC211313 DOI: 10.1128/jb.170.8.3443-3447.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 deficient in adenyl cyclase (cya) and catabolite activator protein (crp) have been shown to grow more slowly than their parent strains in glucose-minimal medium. Their growth rate decreased markedly with increasing pH between 6 and 7.8. We have shown that this pH sensitivity is a direct consequence of the cya mutation, because a mutation to pH resistance also restored ability to ferment a variety of sugars. The proton motive force-dependent uptake of proline and glutamate was also reduced and sensitive to pH in the cya mutant. The membrane-bound ATPase activity was normal. The rate of oxygen uptake by cells, although reduced, was pH insensitive. We suggest several explanations for this phenotype, including a possible defect in energy transduction.
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- D Ahmad
- Department of Biological Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Ray NG, Vieth WR, Venkatasubramanian K. Active inducer transport and regulation of microbial enzyme biosynthesis in chemostat cultures. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1986; 469:212-29. [PMID: 3014976 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1986.tb26499.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Wood WE, Neubauer DG, Stutzenberger FJ. Cyclic AMP levels during induction and repression of cellulase biosynthesis in Thermomonospora curvata. J Bacteriol 1984; 160:1047-54. [PMID: 6094497 PMCID: PMC215817 DOI: 10.1128/jb.160.3.1047-1054.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Specific cellulase production rates (SCPR) were compared with intracellular cyclic AMP (cAMP) levels in the thermophilic actinomycete, Thermomonospora curvata, during growth on several carbon sources in a chemically defined medium. SCPR and cAMP levels were 0.03 U (endoglucanase [EG] units) and 2 pmol per mg of dry cells, respectively, during exponential growth on glucose. These values increased to about 6 and 25, respectively, during growth on cellulose. Detectable EG production ceased when cAMP levels dropped below 10. Cellobiose (usually considered to be a cellulase inducer) caused a sharp decrease in cAMP levels and repressed EG production when added to cellulose-grown cultures. 2-deoxy-D-glucose, although nonmetabolizable in T. curvata, depressed cAMP to levels observed with glucose, but unlike glucose, the 2DG effect persisted until cells were washed and transferred to fresh medium. SCPR values and cAMP levels in cells grown in continuous culture under conditions of cellobiose limitation were markedly influenced by dilution rate (D). The maxima for both occurred at D = 0.085 (culture generation time of 11.8 h). When D was held constant and cellobiose concentration was increased over a 14-fold range to support higher steady state population levels, SCPR values decreased about fivefold, indicating that extracellular catabolite accumulation may be a factor in EG repression. The role of cAMP in the mechanism of this repression appears to be neither simple nor direct, since large changes (up to 200-fold) in SCPR accompany relatively small changes (10-fold) in cellular cAMP levels.
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Matin A, Matin MK. Cellular levels, excretion, and synthesis rates of cyclic AMP in Escherichia coli grown in continuous culture. J Bacteriol 1982; 149:801-7. [PMID: 6277853 PMCID: PMC216465 DOI: 10.1128/jb.149.3.801-807.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Changes in dilution rate did not elicit large and systematic changes in cellular cyclic AMP levels in Escherichia coli grown in a chemostat under carbon or phosphate limitation. However, the technical difficulties of measuring low levels of cellular cyclic AMP in the presence of a large background of extracellular cyclic AMP precluded firm conclusions in this point. The net rate of cyclic AMP synthesis increased exponentially with increasing dilution rate through either the entire range of dilution rates examined (phosphate limitation) or a substantial part of the range (lactose and glucose limitations). Thus, it is probable that growth rate regulates the synthesis of adenylate cyclase. The maximum rate of net cyclic AMP synthesis was greater under lactose than under glucose limitation, which is consistent with the notion that the uptake of phosphotransferase sugars is more inhibitory to adenylate cyclase than the uptake of other carbon substrates. Phosphate-limited cultures exhibited the lowest rate of net cyclic AMP synthesis, which could be due to the role of phosphorylated metabolites in the regulation of adenylate cyclase activity. Under all growth conditions examined, greater than 99.9% of the cyclic AMP synthesized was found in the culture medium. The function of this excretion, which consumed up to 9% of the total energy available to the cell and which evidently resulted from elaborate regulatory mechanisms, remains entirely unknown.
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Müller PJ, Römer W. Regulation of bistability in glucose metabolism of Escherichia coli ML 30 chemostat cultures by cyclic AMP. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALLGEMEINE MIKROBIOLOGIE 1982; 22:211-4. [PMID: 6287745 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.3630220310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Evidence is presented that cyclic AMP is engaged in the regulation of a bistability in the glucose and energy metabolism of NH3-limited chemostat cultures of Escherichia coli ML 30. Cyclic AMP probably reverses the repression of the citric acid cycle by glucose favouring the state of glycogen and energy overproduction.
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Leckie MP, Porter SE, Tieber VL, Dietzler DN. Regulation of the basal and cyclic AMP-stimulated rates of glycogen synthesis in Escherichia coli by an intermediate of purine biosynthesis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1981; 99:1433-42. [PMID: 6266423 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(81)90779-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Leckie MP, Tieber VL, Porter SE, Dietzler DN. The relA gene is not required for glycogen accumulation during NH4+ starvation of Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1980; 95:924-31. [PMID: 6998477 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(80)91561-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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