sn-Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and its interaction with nitrate reductase in wild-type and hem mutant strains of Staphylococcus aureus
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- DOI: 10.1128/jb.133.2.621-625.1978
sn-Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and its interaction with nitrate reductase in wild-type and hem mutant strains of Staphylococcus aureus
Abstract
Staphylococcus aureus has membrane-associated sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity that is strongly activated by detergents. The enzyme can be measured spectrophotometrically in intact cells in assay systems containing lauryldimethylamine oxide (Ammonyx LO). The dehydrogenase activity was located exclusively in the membrane fraction of cells grown with glycerol under aerobic conditions or under anaerobic conditions with the addition of nitrate; there was no evidence of multiple forms. Development of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was studied with suspensions of cells grown previously under semianaerobic conditions with glucose and nitrate. The wild-type strain rapidly formed the enzyme when incubated with glycerol under aerobic conditions or under semianaerobic conditions in the presence of nitrate. Under similar conditions, suspensions of hem mutant H-14 required the addition of hemin. Induction of the enzyme was strongly repressed by glucose with both organisms. A procedure was established to obtain cells of mutant H-14 with sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and nitrate reductase activities, but which could not link the systems unless supplemented with hemin. The coupled activity could also be reconstructed in vitro by the addition of hemin to the depleted membranes.
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