scholarly journals The concerted inactivation of Escherichia coli uridine diphosphate galactose 4-epimerase by sugar nucleotide together with a free sugar

1976 ◽  
Vol 155 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Blackburn ◽  
W Ferdinand

1. The combined effect of the sugar nucleotides UDP-D-fucose or UDP-D-glucuronic acid together with the free sugars D-fucose or L-arabinose is the inactivation of the Escherichia coli enzyme UDP-galactose 4-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.2). The sugar nucleotide or the free sugar alone or the sugar nucleotide plus 5'-Ump do not inactivate the enzyme. 2. The inactivation of the enzyme by its substrate UDP-D-glucose was not affected by the presence of free sugar. 3. In all cases the inactivation observed follows pseudo-first-order kinetics. 4. A comparison of various sugar nucleotides indicates that the hydroxymethyl group at position 6 of the sugar moiety of the natural substrates is important for substrate binding.

1991 ◽  
Vol 273 (3) ◽  
pp. 645-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
R C Hudson ◽  
L R Schofield ◽  
T Coolbear ◽  
R M Daniel ◽  
H W Morgan

An aryl beta-xylosidase was purified to homogeneity from an Escherichia coli strain containing a recombinant plasmid carrying a beta-xylosidase (EC 3.2.1.37) gene from the extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacterium isolate Tp8T6.3.3.1 (‘Caldocellum saccharolyticum’). It has a pI of 4.3 and shows optimal activity at pH 5.7. The enzyme is highly specific, acting on o- and p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranosides and minimally on p-nitrophenyl alpha-L-arabinopyranoside. It does not act on xylobiose. The Km for p-nitrophenyl beta-D-xylopyranoside at the optimum pH for activity is 10 mM, and at pH 7.0 is 6.7 mM. Xylose is a competitive inhibitor with Ki 40 mM. Thermal inactivation follows first-order kinetics at 65 and 70 degrees C with t1/2 values of 4.85 h and 40 min respectively. The t1/2 at 70 degrees C is increased 3-fold and 4-fold by the addition of 0.5 mg of BSA/ml and 2 mM-dithiothreitol respectively.


1973 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Spencer ◽  
P. Blackburn ◽  
W. Ferdinand ◽  
G. M. Blackburn

UDP-6-deoxygalactose inhibits the UDP-galactose 4-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.2) from Escherichia coli in a competitive manner with respect to the substrate UDP-galactose, giving Ki 1.3×10-3m. As a substrate for the enzyme, it is transformed into UDP-6-deoxyglucose, although the reaction stops before equilibrium is attained. Possible causes of this behaviour are discussed.


1980 ◽  
Vol 188 (2) ◽  
pp. 467-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
I R Booth ◽  
W A Hamilton

The exit of lactose and thiomethyl-beta-D-galactoside from Escherichia coli ML308-225 has been studied to determine the role of carrier-dependent (zero-trans efflux) and carrier-independent (leak) processes. On the basis of its sensitivity to p-chloromercuribenzene sulphonate the exit of lactose was found to be almost wholly mediated by the carrier. Consistent with this conclusion was the finding that the rate of exit of this sugar was dependent on the external pH, being considerably slower at acid pH. On the other hand exit of thiomethyl-beta-D-galactoside was found to be composed of both carrier-dependent and carrier-independent processes. Both processes exhibited first-order kinetics with the rate constants for zero-trans efflux and leak being 0.137 min-1 and 0.079 min-1, respectively. The relevance of these findings for out earlier proposal for the methods of attenuation of solute accumulation is discussed [Booth, Mitchell & Hamilton (1979) Biochem. J. 182, 687–696].


1974 ◽  
Vol 143 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry J. Kitchen ◽  
Patrick Andrews

The inhibition of lactose synthetase A protein by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate at pH7.5 and 25°C, which involves the reaction of one molecule of inhibitor with each molecule of enzyme, was decreased in rate by UDP-galactose, especially in the presence of Mn2+. Pseudo-first-order rate constants for the reaction between 0.1mm-p-hydroxymercuribenzoate and free enzyme, the enzyme–UDP-galactose complex and the enzyme–Mn2+–UDP-galactose complex were 4.4×10−2, 1.9×10−2 and 0.3×10−2min−1 respectively. The results also indicated that dissociation constants for UDP-galactose in the enzyme–UDP-galactose and enzyme–Mn2+–UDP-galactose complexes were 313 and 16μm respectively, the latter value being similar to the Km for UDP-galactose in the lactose synthetase reaction. The protective effect of UDP-galactose and the role of Mn2+ ions in lactose synthetase are discussed.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 167-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Tong ◽  
Jiao Li ◽  
Jun Ma ◽  
Xiaoquan Chen ◽  
Wenhao Shen

Studies were undertaken to evaluate gaseous pollutants in workplace air within pulp and paper mills and to consider the effectiveness of photo-catalytic treatment of this air. Ambient air at 30 sampling sites in five pulp and paper mills of southern China were sampled and analyzed. The results revealed that formaldehyde and various benzene-based molecules were the main gaseous pollutants at these five mills. A photo-catalytic reactor system with titanium dioxide (TiO2) was developed and evaluated for degradation of formaldehyde, benzene and their mixtures. The experimental results demonstrated that both formaldehyde and benzene in their pure forms could be completely photo-catalytic degraded, though the degradation of benzene was much more difficult than that for formaldehyde. Study of the photo-catalytic degradation kinetics revealed that the degradation rate of formaldehyde increased with initial concentration fitting a first-order kinetics reaction. In contrast, the degradation rate of benzene had no relationship with initial concentration and degradation did not conform to first-order kinetics. The photo-catalytic degradation of formaldehyde-benzene mixtures indicated that formaldehyde behaved differently than when treated in its pure form. The degradation time was two times longer and the kinetics did not reflect a first-order reaction. The degradation of benzene was similar in both pure form and when mixed with formaldehyde.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chem Int

The kinetics of oxidation of methyl orange by vanadium(V) {V(V)} has been investigated in the pH range 2.3-3.79. In this pH range V(V) exists both in the form of decavanadates and VO2+. The kinetic results are distinctly different from the results obtained for the same reaction in highly acidic solution (pH < 1) where V(V) exists only in the form of VO2+. The reaction obeys first order kinetics with respect to methyl orange but the rate has very little dependence on total vanadium concentration. The reaction is accelerated by H+ ion but the dependence of rate on [H+] is less than that corresponding to first order dependence. The equilibrium between decavanadates and VO2+ explains the different kinetic pattern observed in this pH range. The reaction is markedly accelerated by Triton X-100 micelles. The rate-[surfactant] profile shows a limiting behavior indicative of a unimolecular pathway in the micellar pseudophase.


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