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. 1965 Jul;96(1):270–275. doi: 10.1042/bj0960270

The control of sulphate reduction in bacteria

C A Pasternak 1, R J Ellis 1,*, M C Jones-Mortimer 1, C E Crichton 1
PMCID: PMC1206932  PMID: 14343143

Abstract

1. An enzyme from Escherichia coli 9723 that reduces adenosine 3′-phosphate 5′-sulphatophosphate to inorganic sulphite is described. Extracts of E. coli K12 and Bacillus subtilis 1379 contain a similar enzyme. 2. This reductase and sulphite reductase (EC 1.8.1.2) of E. coli 9723, E. coli K12 and of B. subtilis are repressed by growth in the presence of l-cystine. Cysteine synthase (EC 4.2.1.22) is unaffected. 3. Growth of E. coli 9723 on inorganic sulphite represses the sulphate-activating enzymes (EC 2.7.7.4 and 2.7.1.25) almost completely but has little effect on sulphite reductase. Growth on 0·042–0·056mm-l-cystine gives a similar result. 4. Such differential repression by cyst(e)ine prevents E. coli, when growing on sulphite, from synthesizing unnecessary enzymes.

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