Sulfate activation in Desulfotomaculum |
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Authors: | Bernhard Thebrath Waltraud Dilling Heribert Cypionka |
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Affiliation: | (1) Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-7750 Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | Enzyme activities conceivably involved in the activation of sulfate were studied with Desulfotomaculum ruminis, D. acetoxidans, D. nigrificans, D. orientis, and Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Cell lysates of these species revealed activities of at least 8 nkat/mg protein (i.e., 480 nmol per min and mg protein) of ATP sulfurylase, acetate kinase, phosphotransacetylase and adenylate kinase. ADP sulfurylase was not detected. Pyrophosphatase activity was high (73 to 97 nkat/mg protein) in Desulfotomaculum orientis and Desulfovibrio vulgaris. In these strains pyrophosphatase was activated by addition of a reductant (dithionite). In Desulfotomaculum ruminis, D. acetoxidans, and D. nigrificans, only low pyrophosphatase activity (2.5 to 6.3 nkat/mg protein) was measured, which was not reductant-activated. Some hints indicated a membrane association of the pyrophosphatase in D. ruminis, and possibly also in D. acetoxidans and D. nigrificans. Activities of a pyrophosphate-dependent acetate kinase (PPi:acetate kinase), a PPi:AMP kinase or a polyphosphate:AMP kinase were not detected or negligible. The results are not in favour of the assumption that pyrophosphate formed by ATP sulfurylase during sulfate activation might be utilized to form acetyl phosphate in Desulfotomaculum species. Contrary results of other authors were shown to be artefacts caused by chemical hydrolysis of acetyl phosphate in the molybdate-sulfuric acid reagent used for phosphate determination.Abbreviations Pi orthophosphate - PPi pyrophosphate - APS adenosine phosphosulfate - AP5A, P1 P5-di(adenosine-5-)pentaphosphate - CTAB cetyltrimethylammonium bromide - MOPS 3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid - HEPES N(-2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N-2-ethanesulfonic acid |
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Keywords: | Desulfotomaculum ruminis D. acetoxidans D. nigrificans D. orientis Desulfovibrio vulgaris Sulfate activation ATP sulfurylase Pyrophosphatase Pyrophosphate:acetate kinase |
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