title: [Biochemical characterization of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica overproducing carboxylic acids from ethanol. Nitrogen metabolism enzymes].
abstract: A comparative assay of nitrogen metabolism enzymes in the Yarrowia lipolytica mutant N1 grown under conditions promoting the overproduction of either alpha-ketoglutaric acid (KGA) or citric acid showed that the overproduction of KGA correlates with an increase in the activities of the NAD- and NADP-linked glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, and glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase reactions. These reactions are likely to be responsible for the overproduction of KGA by this mutant. In contrast, the overproduction of citric acid correlated with a decline in the activities of the NAD- and NADP-linked glutamate dehydrogenases and with an increase in the activities of glutamine synthetase and glutamate synthase.
authors.affiliation: Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Nauki 5, Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, 142290 Russia.
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Il'chenko
authors.forename: O G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Cherniavskaia
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Shishkanova
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Finogenova
mesh_terms: D000410:Alanine Transaminase / Q000378:metabolism; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D019343:Citric Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000378:metabolism*; D005969:Glutamate Dehydrogenase / Q000378:metabolism; D007656:Ketoglutaric Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism; D009249:NADP / Q000378:metabolism; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D025062:Yarrowia / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D007656:Ketoglutaric Acids; D009243:NAD; D019343:Citric Acid; D000431:Ethanol; D009249:NADP; D005969:Glutamate Dehydrogenase; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D000410:Alanine Transaminase; D009584:Nitrogen