title: Inorganic polyphosphate in Vibrio cholerae: genetic, biochemical, and physiologic features.
abstract: Vibrio cholerae O1, biotype El Tor, accumulates inorganic polyphosphate (poly P) principally as large clusters of granules. Poly P kinase (PPK), the enzyme that synthesizes poly P from ATP, is encoded by the ppk gene, which has been cloned from V. cholerae, overexpressed, and knocked out by insertion-deletion mutagenesis. The predicted amino acid sequence of PPK is 701 residues (81.6 kDa), with 64% identity to that of Escherichia coli, which it resembles biochemically. As in E. coli, ppk is part of an operon with ppx, the gene that encodes exopolyphosphatase (PPX). However, unlike in E. coli, PPX activity was not detected in cell extracts of wild-type V. cholerae. The ppk null mutant of V. cholerae has diminished adaptation to high concentrations of calcium in the medium as well as motility and abiotic surface attachment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Tzeng
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Fraley
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kornberg
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D017854:Diphosphotransferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D010710:Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; D011108:Polymers; D014734:Vibrio cholerae / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D010710:Phosphates; D011108:Polymers; D017854:Diphosphotransferases; C084412:nucleotide 3'-pyrophosphokinase-2',3'-cyclic monophosphokinase; D010749:Phosphoprotein Phosphatases; C080406:protein phosphatase 4