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16892249

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
The production of L-asparaginase, an enzyme widely used in cancer chemotherapy, is mainly regulated by carbon catabolite repression and oxygen. This study was carried out to understand how different carbon sources and Vitreoscilla hemoglobin (VHb) affect the production of this enzyme in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its VHb-expressing recombinant strain (PaJC). Both strains grown with various carbon sources showed a distinct profile of the enzyme activity. Compared to no carbohydrate supplemented medium, glucose caused a slight repression of L-asparaginase in P. aeruginosa, while it stimulated it in the PaJC strain. Glucose, regarded as one of the inhibitory sugars for the production L-asparaginase by other bacteria, was determined to be the favorite carbon source compared to lactose, glycerol and mannitol. Furthermore, contrary to common knowledge of oxygen repression of L-asparaginase in other bacteria, oxygen uptake provided by VHb was determined to even stimulate the L-asparaginase synthesis by P. aeruginosa. This study, for the first time, shows that in P. aeruginosa utilizing a recombinant oxygen uptake system, VHb, L-asparaginase synthesis is stimulated by glucose and other carbohydrate sources compared to the host strain. It is concluded that carbon catabolite and oxygen repression of L-asparaginase in fermentative bacteria is not the case for a respiratory non-fermentative bacterium like P. aeruginosa.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1860-6768
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
203-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Effect of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin on production of a chemotherapeutic enzyme, L-asparaginase, by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, Inonu University, Malatya 44280, Turkey. hgeckil@inonu.edu.tr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't