title: [The enzyme of carbon metabolism in the thermotolerant sulfobacillus strain K1].
abstract: To determine enzymatic activities in the thermotolerant strain K1 (formerly "Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans subsp. thermotolerans"), it was grown in a mineral medium with (1) thiosulfate and Fe2+ or pyrite (autotrophic conditions), (2) Fe2+, thiosulfate, and yeast extract or glucose (mixotrophic conditions), and (3) yeast extract (heterotrophic conditions). Cells grown mixo-, hetero-, and autotrophically were found to contain enzymes of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, as well as malate synthase, an enzyme of the glyoxylate cycle. Cells grown organotrophically in a medium with yeast extract exhibited the activity of the key enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas and Entner-Doudoroff pathways. An increased content of carbon dioxide (up to 5 vol%) in the auto- and mixotrophic media enhanced the activity of the enzymes involved in the terminal reactions of the TCA cycle and the enzymes of the pentose phosphate pathway. Carbon dioxide was fixed in the Calvin cycle. The highest activity of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase was detected in cells grown autotrophically at the atmospheric content of CO2 in the air used for aeration of the growth medium. The activities of pyruvate carboxylase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxytransphosphorylase decreased with the increasing content of CO2 in the medium.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7, k. 2, Moscow, 117811 Russia.
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Karavaĭko
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Zakharchuk
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Bogdanova
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Egorova
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Tsaplina
authors.forename: E N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Krasil'nikova
mesh_terms: D050260:Carbohydrate Metabolism; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D002952:Citric Acid Cycle; D003470:Culture Media; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D006091:Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacteria / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development; D008292:Malate Synthase / Q000378:metabolism; D010427:Pentose Phosphate Pathway; D019764:Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP) / Q000378:metabolism; D010730:Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase / Q000378:metabolism; D011766:Pyruvate Carboxylase / Q000378:metabolism; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002244:Carbon; D008292:Malate Synthase; D010730:Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase; D019764:Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP); D011766:Pyruvate Carboxylase