scholarly journals The regulation of transport of glucose, gluconate and 2-oxogluconate and of glucose catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1976 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
P H. Whiting ◽  
M Midgley ◽  
E A. Dawes

1. The induction by glucose and gluconate of the transport systems and catabolic enzymes for glucose, gluconate and 2-oxogluconate was studied with Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 growing in a chemostat under conditions of nitrogen limitation with citrate as the major carbon source. 2. In the presence of a residual concentration of 30mM-citrate an inflowing glucose concentration of 6-8 mM was required to induce the glucose-transport system and associated catabolic enzymes. When the glucose concentration was raised to 20mM the glucose-transport system was repressed, but the transport system for gluconate, and at higher glucose concentrations, that for 2-oxogluconate, were induced. No repression of the glucose-catabolizing enzymes occurred at the higher inflowing glucose concentrations. 3. In the presence of 30mM-citrate no marked threshold concentration was required for the induction of the gluconate-transport system by added gluconate. 4. In the presence of 30mM-citrate and various concentrations of added glucose and gluconate, the activity of the glucose-transport system accorded with the proposal that a major factor concerned in the repression of this system was the concentration of gluconate, produced extracellularly by glucose dehydrogenase. 5. This proposal was supported by chemostat experiments with mutants defective in glucose dehydrogenase. Such mutants showed no repression of the glucose-transport system by high inflowing concentrations, but with a mutant apparently defective only in glucose dehydrogenase, the addition of gluconate caused repression of the glucose-transport system. 6. Studies with the mutants showed that both glucose and gluconate can induce the enzymes of the Entner-Doudoroff system, whereas for the induction of the gluconate-transport system glucose must be converted into gluconate.

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 722-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Wylie ◽  
Elizabeth A. Worobec

Specificity of the high-affinity glucose transport system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was examined. At a concentration of [14C]glucose near the Vmax of the system, inhibition by maltose, galactose, and xylose was detected. This inhibition is similar to that detected in earlier in vivo studies and correlates with the known specificity of OprB, a glucose-specific porin of P. aeruginosa. At a level of [14C]glucose 100 times lower, only unlabelled glucose inhibited uptake to any extent. This matches the known in vitro specificity of the periplasmic glucose binding protein. These findings were used to explain the discrepancy between earlier in vivo and in vitro results reported in the literature.Key words: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, glucose transport, OprB, glucose binding protein.


1986 ◽  
Vol 250 (1) ◽  
pp. E100-E102 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kubo ◽  
J. E. Foley

To determine the glucose and insulin concentrations at which glucose transport is rate limiting for insulin-mediated glucose uptake and metabolism in muscle, glucose clearance was determined in the presence of glucose concentrations ranging from trace to 20 mM and in the absence or presence of insulin in the perfused rat hindlimb. In the absence of insulin and at submaximally stimulating insulin concentrations glucose clearance was constant up to 7 mM glucose and then decreased as the glucose concentration was raised. At maximally stimulating insulin concentrations glucose clearance was constant up to 2 mM glucose and then decreased. The decrease in glucose clearance between 2 and 7 mM glucose in the presence of maximally stimulating insulin concentrations could not be accounted for by competition among glucose molecules for the glucose transport system. The results suggest that at physiological glucose concentrations in the presence of maximally stimulating insulin concentrations the rate-limiting step for insulin-mediated glucose uptake and metabolism in muscle shifts from glucose transport to some step beyond transport.


1973 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Midgley ◽  
E. A. Dawes

The methyl α-glucoside-transport system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been characterized with respect to its specificity, energy-dependence, kinetics and regulation. The uptake of glucose involved two components, one of which transported glucose (Km=8μm) and methyl α-glucoside (Km=2.8mm) whereas the other was more complex, involving the extracellular activity of glucose dehydrogenase. Mutants defective in this enzyme have been isolated and characterized. The methyl α-glucoside–glucose-transport system was repressed when the organism was grown in the absence of glucose; the induction of this transport system by glucose, and its activity once induced, were inhibited by products of citrate metabolism.


1980 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Akagi ◽  
N. Taga

The transport systems of the oligotrophic bacterium 486 for D-glucose and L-proline have been compared with those of the heterotrophic bacterium RP-303. Kinetic studies demonstrated that the rates of D-glucose and L-proline uptake by the two organisms were saturable processes. The apparent Km values of strain 486 for D-glucose and L-proline were 13.0 μM and 0.2 μM, respectively, whereas those of strain RP-303 were 3.2 μM for D-glucose and 1.8 μM for L-proline. Competition studies indicated that the D-glucose transport system of each bacterium was highly specific for D-glucose. The L-proline transport system of the oligotrophic bacterium 486 had a broad specificity, whereas that of the heterotrophic bacterium RP-303 had a narrow one.


1973 ◽  
Vol 132 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony J. Mukkada ◽  
George L. Long ◽  
Antonio H. Romano

The non-metabolizable glucose analogue 2-deoxy-d-glucose is taken up by Pseudomonas aeruginosa against a concentration gradient, in a predominantly unchanged form. d-Glucose competitively inhibits 2-deoxy-d-glucose uptake and also causes a rapid exit of intracellular 2-deoxy-d-glucose. Thus these two sugars share the same stereospecific carrier system, and glucose transport can be studied reliably with 2-deoxy-d-glucose. The transport system is inducible, and is strongly repressed by a number of organic acids such as acetate, citrate, succinate, fumarate and malate, even in the presence of adequate excess of the inducer (d-glucose). Repression by organic acids can be relieved by transferring cells to a glucose medium, but in the presence of chloramphenicol the cells fail to recover from repression, indicating that the formation of the transport system involves the synthesis of protein. The results demonstrate that the regulation of glucose metabolism effected by citric acid-cycle intermediates in P. aeruginosa is manifest at the level of the glucose-transport system.


1989 ◽  
Vol 260 (3) ◽  
pp. 885-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
R M Krupka

In the case of a transport system obeying Michaelis-Menten kinetics, completely general relationships are shown to exist between the final ratio of internal and external substrate concentrations, alpha, and the V/Km ratios found in zero-trans-entry, zero-trans-exit and equilibrium-exchange experiments (where V is a maximum substrate flux and Km a substrate half-saturation constant). The proof depends on a new method of derivation proceeding from the form of the experimental data rather than, as has been the practice in kinetic analysis, from a hypothetical reaction scheme. These general relationships, which will be true of all mechanisms giving rise to a particular type of behaviour (here Michaelis-Menten kinetics), provide a test for internal consistency in a set of experimental data. Other relationships, which are specific, can be derived from individual reaction schemes, with the use of traditional procedures in kinetic analysis. The specific relationships include constants for infinite trans entry and exit in addition to constants involved in the general relationships. In conjunction, the general and specific relationships provide a stringent test of mechanism. A set of results that fails to satisfy the general relationships must be rejected; here systematic error or unexpected changes in the transport system in different experiments may have distorted the calculated constants, or the system may not actually obey Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Results in accord with the general relationships, on the other hand, can be applied in specific tests of mechanism. The usefulness of the theorem is illustrated in the cases of the glucose-transport and choline-transport systems of erythrocytes. Experimental results taken from several studies in the literature, which were in accord with hyperbolic substrate kinetics, had previously been shown to disagree with relationships derived for the carrier model, and the model was rejected. The new analysis shows that the data violated the general relationships and therefore cannot decide the issue. More recent results on the glucose-transport system satisfy the general relations and agree with the carrier model.


1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Thomas ◽  
S D Rogers ◽  
M W Sleeman ◽  
G M Pasquini ◽  
F R Bringhurst ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT This study characterizes the actions of insulin and parathyroid hormone (PTH) on the glucose transport system in the rat osteogenic sarcoma cell line UMR 106–01, which expresses a number of features of the osteoblast phenotype. Using [1,2-3H]2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG) as a label, UMR 106–01 cells were shown to possess a glucose transport system which was enhanced by insulin. In contrast, PTH influenced glucose transport in a biphasic manner with a stimulatory effect at 1 h and a more potent inhibitory effect at 16 h on basal and insulin-stimulated 2-DOG transport. To explore the mechanism of PTH action, a direct agonist of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) was tested. 8-Bromo-cAMP had no acute stimulatory effect but inhibited basal and insulin-stimulated 2-DOG transport at 16 h. This result suggested that the prolonged, but not the acute, effect of PTH was mediated by the generation of cAMP. Further studies with the cell line UMR 4–7, a UMR 106–01 clone stably transfected with an inducible mutant inactive regulatory subunit of PKA, confirmed that the inhibitory but not the stimulatory effect of PTH was mediated by the PKA pathway. Northern blot data indicated that the prolonged inhibitory effects of PTH and 8-bromo-cAMP on glucose transport were likely to be mediated in part by reduction in the levels of GLUT1 (HepG2/brain glucose transporter) mRNA.


1975 ◽  
Vol 145 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
J E Barnett ◽  
G D Holman ◽  
R A Chalkley ◽  
K A Munday

6-O-methyl-, 6-O-propyl-, 6-O-pentyl- and 6-O-benzyl-D-galactose, and 6-O-methyl-, 6-O-propyl- and 6-O-pentyl-D-glucose inhibit the glucose-transport system of the human erythrocyte when added to the external medium. Penetration of 6-O-methyl-D-galactose is inhibited by D-glucose, suggesting that it is transported by the glucose-transport system, but the longer-chain 6-O-alkyl-D-galactoses penetrate by a slower D-glucose-insensitive route at rates proportional to their olive oil/water partition coefficients. 6-O-n-Propyl-D-glucose and 6-O-n-propyl-D-galactose do not significantly inhibit L-sorbose entry or D-glucose exit when present only on the inside of the cells whereas propyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside, which also penetrates the membrane slowly by a glucose-insensitive route, only inhibits L-sorbose entry or D-glucose exit when present inside the cells, and not when on the outside. The 6-O-alkyl-D-galactoses, like the other nontransported C-4 and C-6 derivatives, maltose and 4,6-O-ethylidene-D-glucose, protect against fluorodinitrobenzene inactivation, whereas propyl beta-D-glucopyranoside stimulates the inactivation. Of the transported sugars tested, those modified at C-1, C-2 and C-3 enhance fluorodinitrobenzene inactivation, where those modified at C-4 and C-6 do not, but are inert or protect against inactivation. An asymmetric mechanism is proposed with two conformational states in which the sugar binds to the transport system so that C-4 and C-6 are in contact with the solvent on the outside and C-1 is in contact with the solvent on the inside of the cell. It is suggested that fluorodinitrobenzene reacts with the form of the transport system that binds sugars at the inner side of the membrane. An Appendix describes the theoretical basis of the experimental methods used for the determination of kinetic constants for non-permeating inhibitors.


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