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Trypotophanase from a marine bacterium, Vibrio K-7 synthesis, purification and some chemical catalytic properties.

The conditions for synthesis, purification, and properties of tryptophanase by a marine organism (Vibrio K-7) were studied. Tryptophanase was induced by tryptophan and its analogs, and partially repressed by 0.5% glucose or glycerol. NaCl (0.4 M) was required for optimal growth and tryptophanase activity in whole cells. The enzyme was purified to 92% homogeneity by heat treatment, hydroxyapatite chromatography and fractionation with ammonium sulfate. This tryptophanase has been found to have kinetic properties similar to the tryptophanase from other microorganisms. It carries out both alpha, beta-elimination reactions (using tryptophan, serine, cysteine and S-methylcysteine as substrates) and beta-replacement reactions (forming tryptophan from indole and serine, cysteine or S-methyl-cysteine). The enzyme has a sedimentation coefficient of 9.2S and requires pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as a cofactor. The optimal pH for the tryptophanase reaction is pH 8.0.

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No influence of the embryonic axis on the development of diamine oxidase in pea cotyledons.

A reexamination has been made for the supposed regulation of pea (Pisum sativum cv Alaska) cotyledonary diamine oxidase (EC 1.4.3.6) activity by the embryonic axis. When dry cotyledons from which the embryo and testa have been removed surgically are imbibed by soaking in water, there is little increase of the enzyme activity during subsequent incubation on filter paper. However, if the dry cotyledons are imbibed and maintained on filter paper from the first, the increase of the enzyme activity is similar to that in the intact seedling. Thus, rapid imbibition of the isolated dry cotyledons is responsible for repression of enzyme development, and a role for the axis need not be invoked.

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A yeast gene that is essential for release from glucose repression encodes a protein kinase.

The SNF1 gene plays a central role in carbon catabolite repression in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, namely that SNF1 function is required for expression of glucose-repressible genes. The nucleotide sequence of the cloned SNF1 gene was determined, and the predicted amino acid sequence shows that SNF1 encodes a 72,040-dalton polypeptide that has significant homology to the conserved catalytic domain of mammalian protein kinases. Specific antisera were prepared and used to identify the SNF1 protein. The protein was shown to transfer phosphate from adenosine triphosphate to serine and threonine residues in an in vitro autophosphorylation reaction. These findings indicate that SNF1 encodes a protein kinase and suggest that protein phosphorylation plays a critical role in regulation by carbon catabolite repression in eukaryotic cells.

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