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. 1985 Dec;164(3):1146–1152. doi: 10.1128/jb.164.3.1146-1152.1985

Regulation and genetic enhancement of glucoamylase and pullulanase production in Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum.

H H Hyun, J G Zeikus
PMCID: PMC219309  PMID: 3934138

Abstract

We studied the general mechanism for regulation of glucoamylase and pullulanase synthesis in Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum. These amylases were expressed only when the organism was grown on maltose or other carbohydrates containing maltose units. Amylase synthesis was more severely repressed by glucose than by xylose. Catabolite repression-resistant mutants were isolated by using nitrosoguanidine treatment, enrichment on 2-deoxyglucose, and selection of colonies with large clear zones on iodine-stained glucose-starch agar plates. Amylases were produced in both wild-type and mutant strains when starch was added to cells growing on xylose but not when starch was added to cells growing on glucose. In both wild-type and mutant strains, glucoamylase and pullulanase were produced at high levels in starch-limited chemostats but not in glucose- or xylose-limited chemostats. Therefore, we concluded that amylase synthesis in C. thermohydrosulfuricum was inducible and subject to catabolite repression. The mutants produced about twofold more glucoamylase and pullulanase, and they were catabolite repression resistant for production of glucose isomerase, lactase, and isomaltase. The mutants displayed improved starch metabolism features in terms of enhanced rates of growth, ethanol production, and starch consumption.

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