Involvement of the stringent response in degradation of glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase in Bacillus subtilis.

AUTOR(ES)

Ruppen, M E

RESUMO

Glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase, the first enzyme of purine biosynthesis, has previously been shown to be rapidly inactivated and degraded in Bacillus subtilis cells at the end of growth. The loss of enzyme activity appears to involve the oxidation of an iron-sulfur cluster in the enzyme. The degradation of the inactive enzyme involves some elements of the stringent response because it is inhibited in relA and relC mutants. Intracellular pools of guanosine tetra- and pentaphosphate were measured by an improved extraction procedure in cells that had been manipulated in various ways to induce or inhibit amidotransferase degradation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that one or both of these nucleotides stimulates the synthesis of a protein involved in degradation. An elevated level of these nucleotides was not required for the continued degradation of amidotransferase once it had begun.

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