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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-12-6
pubmed:abstractText
We have applied a model that permits the estimation of the sensitivity of flux through branch point enzymes (D. C. LaPorte, K. Walsh, and D. E. Koshland, J. Biol. Chem. 259:14068-14075, 1984) in order to analyze the control of flux through the lactate-acetate branch point of Selenomonas ruminantium grown in glucose-limited continuous culture. At this branch point, pyruvate is the substrate of both the NAD-dependent L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and the pyruvate:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (PFOR). The LDH was purified, and it exhibited positive cooperativity for the binding of pyruvate. The LDH had an [S].5 for pyruvate of 0.43 mM, a Hill coefficient of 2.4, and a K' equal to 0.13 mM. The PFOR, assayed in cell extracts, exhibited Michaelis-Menten kinetics for pyruvate, with a Km of 0.49 mM. Carbon flux through the LDH and the PFOR increased 80-fold and 3-fold, respectively, as the dilution rate was increased from 0.07 to 0.52 h-1 in glucose-limited continuous culture. There was nearly a twofold increase, from 6.5 to 11.2 mumol min-1 mg of protein-1 in the specific activity (i.e., maximum velocity) of the LDH at dilution rates of 0.11 and 0.52 h-1, respectively. A flux equation was used to calculate the intracellular concentration of pyruvate; a fourfold increase in pyruvate, from 0.023 to 0.093 mM, was thereby predicted as the dilution rate was increased from 0.07 to 0.52 h-1. When these calculated values of intracellular pyruvate concentration were inserted into the flux equation, the predicted values of flux through the LDH and the PFOR were found to match closely the flux actually measured in the chemostat-grown cells. Thus, the 80-fold increase in flux through the LDH was due to a twofold increase in the maximum velocity of the LDH and a fourfold increase in the intracellular pyruvate concentration. In addition, the flux through the LDH exhibited ultrasensitivity to changes in both the maximum velocity of the LDH and the intracellular concentration of pyruvate. The flux through the PFOR exhibited ultrasensitivity to changes in the maximum velocity of the LDH and hyperbolic sensitivity to changes in the intracellular concentration of pyruvate.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0021-9193
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
170
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5305-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Regulation of carbon flow in Selenomonas ruminantium grown in glucose-limited continuous culture.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis 95616.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article