The role of glutaminase in : studies with a new mutant Free

Abstract

Summary: In order to examine the role of glutaminase in we isolated and characterized a glutaminase mutant (LM16). This mutant was selected for its impaired ability to grow on glutamine as nitrogen and carbon source while retaining the ability to grow on other nitrogen and carbon sources. The mutant showed very low levels of glutaminase activity under various growth conditions in comparison with the wild-type strain. With glutamine as the only nitrogen and carbon source, LM16 showed poor growth, with a very high content of glutamine, low glutamate content, and reduced ammonium excretion and CO evolution from [U-C]glutamine compared to the wild-type strain. This indicates that the main role of glutaminase is in the use of glutamine as carbon source. glutaminase also plays a role in maintaining the balance between glutamate and glutamine, as shown by the accumulation of glutamine and the low glutamate content of the mutant under different growth conditions. These results also indicate that glutaminase participates in a glutamine cycle in which it degrades glutamine which is then resynthesized by glutamine synthetase. The higher glutamine and lower glutamate content found in bacteroids of LM16 in comparison with bacteroids of the wild-type strain indicate that glutamine degradation by glutaminase plays an important role during the symbiosis between and .

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