Abstract
Harold, F. M. (National Jewish Hospital, Denver, Colo.), and J. R. Baarda. Interaction of arsenate with phosphate-transport systems in wild-type and mutant Streptococcus faecalis. J. Bacteriol. 91:2257–2262. 1966.—Arsenate competitively inhibits the growth of Streptococcus faecalis, primarily by competition with phosphate for a common transport system. Arsenate is itself accumulated by the cells; the uptake requires metabolic energy, and the intracellular arsenate level may reach 0.01 m. Cells loaded with arsenate have lost the capacity to take up radioactive glutamate, rubidium, phosphate, or arsenate itself, apparently by the uncoupling of adenosine triphosphate generation. The pH dependence of arsenate uptake is complex. At low concentrations of extracellular arsenate, uptake by the wild-type strain 9790 exhibits a single maximum about pH 8; mutant PT-1, previously shown to be defective in phosphate uptake, takes up essentially no arsenate. At high concentrations of arsenate, uptake by the wild type is bimodal with maxima at pH 5.5 and 9; the uptake curve for mutant PT-1 corresponds to the shoulder in the curve for the wild type. The apparent dissociation constant for arsenate uptake by the wild type is approximately 10−5m from pH 5 to 9, whereas that for mutant PT-1 is about 5 × 10−5 M at pH 5 and rises rapidly with increasing pH. The results confirm the earlier conclusion that the lesion in mutant PT-1 resides in the transport of phosphate and arsenate. It is proposed that the wild type has two distinct transport systems, whereas the mutant has lost the one with alkaline pH optimum.
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