CHARACTERIZATION AND SEQUENCE OF PHOC, THE PRINCIPAL PHOSPHATE-IRREPRESSIBLE ACID-PHOSPHATASE OF MORGANELLA-MORGANII
CHARACTERIZATION AND SEQUENCE OF PHOC, THE PRINCIPAL PHOSPHATE-IRREPRESSIBLE ACID-PHOSPHATASE OF MORGANELLA-MORGANII
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DOI:
10.1099/00221287-140-6-1341
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发表时间:
1994-06-01
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
ROSSOLINI, GM
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作者:
THALLER, MC;BERLUTTI, F;ROSSOLINI, GM
Phosphatase activities were investigated in Morganella morganii, which is one of the few enterobacterial species producing high-level phosphate-irrepressible acid phosphatase activity (HPAP phenotype), and the gene encoding the major phosphate-irrepressible acid phosphatase was cloned, sequenced, and its product characterized. Using p-nitrophenyl phosphate as substrate, Morganella produced a major phosphate-irrepressible acid phosphatase (named PhoC) which is associated with the HPAP phenotype, a minor phosphate-irrepressible acid phosphatase, and a phosphate-repressible alkaline phosphatase. The presence of the PhoC activity prevented induction of alkaline phosphatase when a PhoC-hydrolysable organic phosphate ester, such as glycerol 2-phosphate, was the sole phosphate source. PhoC is a secreted nonspecific acid phosphatase apparently composed of four 25 kDa polypeptide subunits. The enzyme is resistant to EDTA, P-i, fluoride and tartrate. The M. morganii PhoC showed 84.6% amino acid sequence identity to the PhoN nonspecific acid phosphatase of Providencia stuartii, 45.3% to the PhoN nonspecific acid phosphatase of Salmonella typhimurium, and 37.8% to the principal acid phosphatase (PhoC) of Zymomonas mobilis. Comparison of sequence data and of regulation of these enzymes suggested a different phylogeny of members of this gene family within the Enterobacteriaceae.