Survey of the inhibitory effects of glycine on threonine aldolase activity of yogurt microorganisms

1989 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1215-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Schmidt ◽  
Laura B. Kennedy ◽  
Ellen B. McMullan ◽  
Edward R. Mason
1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1274-1276 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL I. BIRD ◽  
PETER B. NUNN

1983 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M. Marshall ◽  
Wendy M. Cole

SummaryCell-free extracts of both Lactobacillus bulgaricus and L. acidophilus demonstrated threonine aldolase activity, the end product of which was acetaldehyde, the major flavour compound of yoghurt. L. acidophilus also possessed an alcohol dehydrogenase activity capable of reducing acetaldehyde so that little yoghurt flavour was present in milks fermentation with this organism. Addition of threonine to fortified milk before fermentation with L. acidophilus increased acetaldehyde production and resulted in a well flavoured product similar to that of yoghurt made with L. bulgaricus. The contribution of these 2 enzymes to flavour production is discussed.


1989 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1142-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romina M. Marranzini ◽  
Ronald H. Schmidt ◽  
Rachel B. Shireman ◽  
Maurice R. Marshall ◽  
John A. Cornell

1977 ◽  
Vol 166 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Bell ◽  
John M. Turner

1. The route of l-threonine degradation was studied in four strains of the genus Pseudomonas able to grow on the amino acid and selected because of their high l-threonine aldolase activity. Growth and manometric results were consistent with the cleavage of l-threonine to acetaldehyde+glycine and their metabolism via acetate and serine respectively. 2. l-Threonine aldolases in these bacteria exhibited pH optima in the range 8.0–8.7 and Km values for the substrate of 5–10mm. Extracts exhibited comparable allo-l-threonine aldolase activities, Km values for this substrate being 14.5–38.5mm depending on the bacterium. Both activities were essentially constitutive. Similar activity ratios in extracts, independent of growth conditions, suggested a single enzyme. The isolate Pseudomonas D2 (N.C.I.B. 11097) represents the best source of the enzyme known. 3. Extracts of all the l-threonine-grown pseudomonads also possessed a CoA-independent aldehyde dehydrogenase, the synthesis of which was induced, and a reversible alcohol dehydrogenase. The high acetaldehyde reductase activity of most extracts possibly resulted in the underestimation of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase. 4. l-Serine dehydratase formation was induced by growth on l-threonine or acetate+glycine. Constitutively synthesized l-serine hydroxymethyltransferase was detected in extracts of Pseudomonas strains D2 and F10. The enzyme could not be detected in strains A1 and N3, probably because of a highly active ‘formaldehyde-utilizing’ system. 5. Ion-exchange and molecular exclusion chromatography supported other evidence that l-threonine aldolase and allo-l-threonine aldolase activities were catalysed by the same enzyme but that l-serine hydroxymethyltransferase was distinct and different. These results contrast with the specificities of some analogous enzymes of mammalian origin.


Author(s):  
Ari Feder ◽  
Chen Jiao ◽  
Navot Galpaz ◽  
Julia Vrebalov ◽  
Yimin Xu ◽  
...  

AbstractDuring climacteric ripening large-scale transcriptional modifications are governed by ethylene. While ripening-related chromatin modifications are also known to occur, a direct connection between these factors has not been demonstrated. We characterized ethylene-mediated transcriptome modification, genome methylation dynamics, and their relation to organoleptic modifications during fruit ripening in the climacteric melon and an ethylene repressed line where the fruit-specific ACC oxidase 1 (ACO1) gene was targeted by antisense. The ACO1 antisense line exhibited mainly reduced transcriptional repression of ripening-related genes associated with DNA CHH hypomethylation at the onset of ripening. Additionally, transcription of a small set of ethylene-induced genes, including known ripening-associated genes, was inhibited by ACO1 repression and this inhibition was associated with CG hypermethylation. In the ACO1 antisense line, the accumulation of aromatic compounds, which are mainly derived from the catabolism of amino acids, is known to be inhibited. One of the ethylene-mediated transcriptionally up-regulated genes, CmTHA1, encoding a threonine aldolase, exhibited differential cytosine methylation. Threonine aldolase catalyzes the conversion of L-threonine/L-allo threonine to glycine and acetaldehyde and thus is likely involved in threonine-dependent ethyl ester biosynthesis. Yeast mutant complementation and incubation of melon discs with labeled threonine verified CmTHA1 threonine aldolase activity, revealing an additional ethylene-dependent amino acid catabolism branch involved in climacteric melon ripening.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoharu Motoyama ◽  
Shogo Nakano ◽  
Fumihito Hasebe ◽  
Ryo Miyata ◽  
Shigenori Kumazawa ◽  
...  

AbstractPyrazines are typically formed from amino acids and sugars in chemical reactions such as the Maillard reaction. In this study, we demonstrate that 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine can be produced from L-Thr by a simple bacterial operon. We conclude that EDMP is synthesized chemoenzymatically from L-Thr via the condensation reaction of two molecules of aminoacetone and one molecule of acetaldehyde. Aminoacetone is supplied by L-threonine 3-dehydrogenase using L-Thr as a substrate via 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate. Acetaldehyde is supplied by 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate CoA ligase bearing threonine aldolase activity from L-Thr when CoA was at low concentrations. Considering the rate of EDMP production, the reaction intermediate is stable for a certain time, and moderate reaction temperature is important for the synthesis of EDMP. When the precursor was supplied from L-Thr by these enzymes, the yield of EDMP was increased up to 20.2%. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this reaction is useful for synthesizing various alkylpyrazines.


Microbiology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 161 (5) ◽  
pp. 1073-1080 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadri Aller ◽  
Kaarel Adamberg ◽  
Indrek Reile ◽  
Veronica Timarova ◽  
Karl Peebo ◽  
...  

1983 ◽  
Vol 214 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
M I Bird ◽  
P B Nunn

Threonine dehydratase, threonine aldolase and threonine dehydrogenase activities were assayed in livers of rats that had been normally-fed, starved for 72 h, fed a high-protein diet or normally-fed and injected with glucagon or cortisone. A modified continuous spectrophotometric assay for threonine aldolase overcame interference resulting from threonine dehydratase activity and revealed that threonine aldolase activity was very low in rat liver, irrespective of the metabolic state of the animal. The concentration of free threonine was determined in livers of animals subjected to the same treatments as described above. Using Michaelis-Menten kinetics to estimate enzyme activities in vivo at intracellular threonine concentrations it was calculated that in the normally-fed state, 87% of the threonine degraded was catabolized by threonine dehydrogenase. In other metabolic states (except in glucagon-treated animals) threonine dehydratase was the major enzyme catalysing threonine catabolism. It was concluded that threonine dehydrogenase activity plays a hitherto unrecognized role in the metabolic homoeostasis of threonine in the normally-fed rat and that this enzyme activity, in association with 2-amino-3-oxobutyrate CoA-ligase, accounts for the known rate of glycine formation from threonine in the rat.


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