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. 1969 Apr;98(1):172–181. doi: 10.1128/jb.98.1.172-181.1969

Production and Catabolite Repression of the Constitutive Polygalacturonic Acid trans-Eliminase of Aeromonas liquefaciens

Edward J Hsu a,1, Reese H Vaughn a
PMCID: PMC249920  PMID: 5781573

Abstract

Production of polygalacturonic acid (PGA) trans-eliminase was greatly stimulated under conditions of restricted growth of Aeromonas liquefaciens. This was accomplished either by substrate restriction in a continuous-feeding culture or by restricting divalent cations in a batch culture, with the use of PGA as the sole source of carbon in a chemically defined medium containing inorganic nitrogen. Slow feeding of glucose, glycerol, or PGA to carbon-limited cultures allowed PGA trans-eliminase to be formed at a maximum differential rate 500 times greater than in batch cultures with excess substrate present. The differential rate of enzyme formation obtained by slow feeding of these three substrances or of a mixture of PGA plus glucose was observed to be the same. Therefore, PGA trans-eliminase produced by A. liquefaciens, contrary to the current view, appears to be constitutive. These observations also indicate that production of PGA trans-eliminase is subject to catabolite repression and that limiting the substrate reverses this repression. It was also found that, under conditions of unrestricted growth, any compound which the bacteria can use as a source of carbon and energy repressed constitutive PGA trans-eliminase production. The heritable reversal of catabolite repression of PGA trans-eliminase synthesis was demonstrated by isolation of mutant strain Gc-6 which can readily synthesize the constitutive catabolic enzyme PGA trans-eliminase while growing in the presence of excess substrate.

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