Methylammonium uptake by Rhodobacter capsulatus |
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Authors: | Barbara J Rapp Deborah C Landrum Judy D Wall |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, 65211 Columbia, MO, USA |
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Abstract: | The ammonium uptake system of Rhodobacter capsulatus B100 was examined using the ammonium analog methylammonium. This analog was not transported when cells were grown aerobically on ammonium. When cultured on glutamate as a nitrogen source, or when nitrogen-starved, cells would take up methylammonium. Therefore, in cells grown under nitrogen-limiting conditions, a second system of ammonium uptake (or a modified form of the first) is present which is distinguished by its capacity for transporting the analog in addition to ammonium. The methylammonium uptake system exhibited saturation kinetics with a K
m of 22 M and a V
max of about 3 nmol per min · mg protein. Ammonium completely inhibited analog transport with a K
i in the range of 1 M. Once inside the cell methylammonium was rapidly converted to -N-methylglutamine; however, a small concentration gradient of methylammonium could still be observed. Kinetic parameters reflect the effects of assimilation.The methylammonium uptake system was temperature and pH dependent, and inhibition studies indicated that energy was required for the system to be operative. A glutamine auxotroph (G29) lacking the structural gene for glutanime synthetase did not accumulate the analog, even when nitrogen starved. The Nif- mutant J61, which is unable to express nitrogenase structural genes, also did not transport methylammonium, regardless of the nitrogen source for growth. However, the mutant exhibited wild-type ammonium uptake and glutamine synthetase activity. These data suggest that transport of ammonium is required for growth on limited nitrogen and is under the control of the Ntr system in R. capsulatus.Abbreviations CCCP
carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenyl hydrazone
- CHES
cyclohexylaminoethanesulfonic acid
- DMSO
dimethyl sulfoxide
- GMAD
-N-methylglutamine
- GS
glutamine synthetase
- MES
2-(N-morpholino) ethanesulfonic acid
- MSX
methionine-Dl-sulfoximine
- pCMB
p-chloromercuribenzoate
- Tricine
N-tris(hydroxymethyl)methylglycine |
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Keywords: | Ammonium transport Methylammonium Rhodobacter capsulatus Photosynthetic bacteria Nitrogen regulation |
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