Amino acid concentrations in Rhodospirillum rubrum during expression and switch-off of nitrogenase activity.
AUTOR(ES)
Kanemoto, R H
RESUMO
The amino acid concentrations in the phototrophic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum were measured during growth under nif-repressing and nif-derepressing conditions. The effects of ammonium, glutamine, darkness, phenazine methosulfate, and the inhibitors methionine sulfoximine and azaserine on amino acid levels of cells were tested. The changes were compared to changes in whole-cell nitrogenase activity and ADP-ribosylation of dinitrogenase reductase. Glutamate was the dominant amino acid under every growth condition. Glutamine levels were equivalent when cells were grown on high-ammonia (nif-repressing) medium or glutamate (nif-derepressing) medium. Thus, glutamine is not the solitary agent that controls nif expression. No other amino acid correlated with nif expression. Glutamine concentrations rose sharply when either glutamate-grown or N-starved cells were treated with ammonia, glutamine, or azaserine. Glutamine levels showed little change upon treatment of the cells with darkness or ammonium plus methionine sulfoximine. Treatment with phenazine methosulfate resulted in a decrease in glutamine concentration. The glutamine concentration varied independently of dinitrogenase reductase ADP-ribosylation, and it is concluded that an increase in glutamine concentration is neither necessary nor sufficient to initiate the modification of dinitrogenase reductase. No other amino acid exhibited changes in concentration that correlated consistently with modification. Glutamine synthetase activity and nitrogenase activity were not coregulated under all conditions, and thus the two regulatory cascades perceive different signal(s) under at least some conditions.
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