REGULATION OF PRODUCT FORMATION DURING GLUCOSE OR LACTOSE LIMITATION IN NONGROWING CELLS OF STREPTOCOCCUS-LACTIS
REGULATION OF PRODUCT FORMATION DURING GLUCOSE OR LACTOSE LIMITATION IN NONGROWING CELLS OF STREPTOCOCCUS-LACTIS
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DOI:
10.1128/aem.48.2.332-337.1984
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
THOMAS, TD
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作者:
FORDYCE, AM;CROW, VL;THOMAS, TD
Nongrowing cells of S. lactis in a pH-stat were dosed with sugar to allow fermentation at the maximum rate or were fed a continuous supply of sugar at rates less than the maximum. Under anaerobic conditions, rapid fermentation of either glucose or lactose was essentially homolactic. With strain ML3, limiting the fermentation rate diverted approximately half of the pyruvate to formate, acetate and ethanol. At limiting glucose fermentation rates, cells contained lower concentrations of lactate dehydrogenase activator (fructose 1,6-diphosphate) and pyruvate formate-lyase inhibitors (triose phosphates). As a result, pyruvate formate-lyase and pyruvate dehydrogenase play a greater role in pyruvate metabolism. In contrast to strain ML3, strain ML8 did not give the same diversion of products under anaerobic conditions, and cells retained higher concentrations of the above effector compounds. Lactose metabolism under aerobic conditions resulted in pyruvate excretion by both S. lactis ML3 and ML8. At 7% of the maximum utilization rate, pyruvate accounted for 69 and 35% of the lactose metabolized by ML3 and ML8, respectively. Acetate was also a major product, especially with ML8. Evidently, NADH oxidase is involved in coenyzme recycling in the presence of O2 and pyruvate formate-lyase is inactivated, but the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex still functions.