An experimental study on carbon flow in Escherichia coli as a function of kinetic properties and expression levels of the enzyme phosphoglucomutase
✍ Scribed by Trygve Brautaset; Steffen Petersen; Svein Valla
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 44 KB
- Volume
- 58
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0006-3592
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✦ Synopsis
Mutants of Escherichia coli deficient in phosphoglucomutase accumulate amylose when the cells are grown on maltose or galactose as carbon source. In the presence of physiological levels of phosphoglucomutase, most of the sugar is catabolized, leading to strongly reduced levels of amylose accumulation. By varying the expression level of heterologous phosphoglucomutase, we show that the minimum level needed to block amylose accumulation corresponds to a phosphoglucomutase activity of 150-600 nmole substrate transformed per min per mg of total soluble protein. Mutant phosphoglucomutases with strongly reduced V max values and increased Km values for the substrate glucose-1-phosphate or the co-substrate glucose-1,6-diphosphate, could also reduce amylose accumulation, but much higher enzyme expression levels were required.