Glycogen biosynthesis via UDP-glucose in the ruminal bacterium Prevotella bryantii B1(4).

AUTOR(ES)

Lou, J

RESUMO

Prevotella bryantii is an important amylolytic bacterium in the rumen that produces considerable amounts of glycogen when it is grown on maltose. Radiolabel studies indicated that glucose-1-phosphate was converted to UDP-glucose, and this latter intermediate served as the immediate precursor for glycogen synthesis. High levels of UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase activities (> 1,492 nmol/min/mg of protein) were detected in cells grown on maltose, cellobiose, glucose, or sucrose, and activity was greatly stimulated (by approximately 60-fold) by the addition of fructose-1,6-bis phosphate (half-maximal activation concentration was 240 microM). However, ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase activity was not detected in any of the cultures. Glycogen synthase activity in maltose-grown cultures (48 nmol/min/mg of protein) was higher than that in cellobiose-, sucrose-, and glucose-grown cultures (< 26 nmol/min/mg of protein). This is the first report of a bacterium that exclusively uses UDP-glucose to synthesize glycogen. The elucidation of this unique glycogen biosynthesis pathway provides information necessary to further investigate the role of bacterial glycogen accumulation in rumen metabolism.

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