MICROBIAL-METABOLISM OF AMINO-ALCOHOLS - FORMATION OF COENZYME B12-DEPENDENT ETHANOLAMINE AMMONIA-LYASE AND ITS CONCERTED INDUCTION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI
MICROBIAL-METABOLISM OF AMINO-ALCOHOLS - FORMATION OF COENZYME B12-DEPENDENT ETHANOLAMINE AMMONIA-LYASE AND ITS CONCERTED INDUCTION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI
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DOI:
10.1042/bj1760751
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
TURNER, JM
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作者:
BLACKWELL, CM;TURNER, JM
Kinetic studies of ethanolamine ammonia-lyase formation by E. coli suggested that coenzyme B12 (5''-deoxyadenosylcobalamin), with ethanolamine, is a co-inducer. Enzymic and immunological tests failed to show the formation of complementary enzyme components induced separately by ethanolamine and cobalamin, respectively. Although specific for ethanolamine as the substrate, enzyme formation was induced by certain analogs, e.g., 2-aminopropan-1-ol. Experiments with cyano[57Co]-cobalamin suggested that neither coenzyme B12 nor some more tightly bound coenzymically inactive cobamide was necessary for enzyme stability in vitro. Mutants of E. coli were obtained which formed ethanolamine ammonia-lyase apoenzyme constitutively, showing that neither ethanolamine nor cobalamin was required for assembly for post-transcriptional stability of the enzyme in vivo. Constitutive enzyme formation was subject to catabolite repression, particularly by glucose. It appears likely that ethanolamine and coenzyme B12, acting in concert, induce ethanolamine ammonia-lyase formation. The term concerted induction is proposed for this phenomenon.