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. 1988 Jun;170(6):2692–2697. doi: 10.1128/jb.170.6.2692-2697.1988

Characteristics of Ureaplasma urealyticum urease.

A Blanchard 1, S Razin 1, G E Kenny 1, M F Barile 1
PMCID: PMC211190  PMID: 3131306

Abstract

Sonication of Ureaplasma urealyticum cells grown in a dialysate growth medium effectively separated the cytoplasmic fraction from the membrane fraction, with both fractions relatively free from exogenous contaminating proteins. The urease activity was associated with the cytoplasmic fraction, and the ureaplasmal urease exhibited a specific activity higher than that of crystalline jack bean urease. The enzymatic activity of the ureaplasmal enzyme was optimum at pH 7.5 and was resistant to the chelating agents EDTA and sodium citrate. Sulfhydryl-blocking agents such as HgCl2 and Pb(NO3)2 inhibited the ureaplasmal urease, which was also shown to be particularly sensitive to flurofamide and, to a much lesser extent, to acetohydroxamic acid. Electrophoretic analysis of the proteins of the ureaplasmal cell fractions combined with Western immunoblot with an antiserum to the ureaplasmal urease indicated that the urease constitutes a major component of the cytoplasm and is composed of several 70-kilodalton polypeptides.

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