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. 1982 Mar;149(3):801–807. doi: 10.1128/jb.149.3.801-807.1982

Cellular levels, excretion, and synthesis rates of cyclic AMP in Escherichia coli grown in continuous culture.

A Matin, M K Matin
PMCID: PMC216465  PMID: 6277853

Abstract

Changes in dilution rate did not elicit large and systematic changes in cellular cyclic AMP levels in Escherichia coli grown in a chemostat under carbon or phosphate limitation. However, the technical difficulties of measuring low levels of cellular cyclic AMP in the presence of a large background of extracellular cyclic AMP precluded firm conclusions in this point. The net rate of cyclic AMP synthesis increased exponentially with increasing dilution rate through either the entire range of dilution rates examined (phosphate limitation) or a substantial part of the range (lactose and glucose limitations). Thus, it is probable that growth rate regulates the synthesis of adenylate cyclase. The maximum rate of net cyclic AMP synthesis was greater under lactose than under glucose limitation, which is consistent with the notion that the uptake of phosphotransferase sugars is more inhibitory to adenylate cyclase than the uptake of other carbon substrates. Phosphate-limited cultures exhibited the lowest rate of net cyclic AMP synthesis, which could be due to the role of phosphorylated metabolites in the regulation of adenylate cyclase activity. Under all growth conditions examined, greater than 99.9% of the cyclic AMP synthesized was found in the culture medium. The function of this excretion, which consumed up to 9% of the total energy available to the cell and which evidently resulted from elaborate regulatory mechanisms, remains entirely unknown.

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