Commercial preparations of alanine dehydrogenase from Bacillus subtilis are contaminated to varying extents with activity towards branched-chain amino acids. The Km values for these amino acids are of the same order as for L-alanine (about 10(-3)M). The branched-chain amino acid dehydrogenase activity is lost on dialysis for 2--4h against water or 2mM-EDTA.

Amino-acid sequences around two lipoic acid residues in the lipoate acetyltransferase component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of Escherichia coli were investigated. A single amino acid sequence of 13 residues was found. A repeated amino acid sequence in the lipoate acetyltransferase chain might explain this result.

background: parasite lactate dehydrogenase ( p ldh) is extensively employed as malaria rapid diagnostic tests (rdts). moreover, it is a well-known drug target candidate. however, the genetic diversity of this gene might influence perfor­mance of rdt kits and its drug target candidacy. this study aimed to determine polymorphism of p ldh gene from iranian isolates of p. vivax and p. falciparum. m...

Two types of Pseudomonas putida PpG2 mutants which were unable to degrade branched-chain amino acids were isolated after mutagenesis and selection for ability to grow on succinate, but not valine, as a sole source of carbon. These isolates were characterized by growth on the three branched-chain amino acids (valine, isoleucine, and leucine), on the corresponding branched-chain keto acids (2-ket...

proline dehydrogenase (prodh; 1.5.99.8) belongs to superfamily of amino acid dehydrogenase, which plays a significant role in the metabolic pathway from proline to glutamate. the goal of this research was gene cloning and characterization of prodh enzyme from pseudomonas fluorescens pf-5 strain. the gene encoding prodh was isolated by means of pcr amplification and cloned in an iptg inducible t...

A gene encoding an S.pombe homologue of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was isolated from a XEMBL3 library. The clone was originally isolated because it hybridised to a rat BiP cDNA probe (1). Upon sequencing, however, it was found that there was no homology between this clone and BiP at the amino acid level. The open reading frame was used to search databases and the gene identified as an S...

Pseudomonas putida M10 was originally isolated from factory waste liquors by selection for growth on morphine. The NADP(+)-dependent morphine dehydrogenase that initiates morphine catabolism is encoded by a large plasmid of 165 kb. Treatment of P. putida M10 with ethidium bromide led to the isolation of a putative plasmid-free strain that was incapable of growth on morphine. The structural gene...

The regulation of glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.4), glutamine synthetase (EC 6.3.1.2), and glutamate synthase (EC 2.6.1.53) was examined for cultures of Salmonella typhimurium grown with various nitrogen and amino acid sources. In contrast to the regulatory pattern observed in Klebsiella aerogenes, the glutamate dehydrogenase levels of S. typhimurium do not decrease when glutamine synthetas...

In preceding reports from this laboratory, a-hydroxyanthranilic acid was shown to be converted to glutaric acid and COz by crude extracts of cat liver (l-3). Evidence was also presented that ol-amino-p-carboxymuconic e-semialdehyde, the primary oxidation product of 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid by the oxygenase (4), is an obligatory intermediate in this conversion (2,3). However, all previous exper...