Nutritional regulation of degradation of aspartate transcarbamylase and of bulk protein in exponentially growing Bacillus subtilis cells.
AUTOR(ES)
Bond, R W
RESUMO
The rate of degradation of aspartate transcarbamylase in exponentially growing Bacillus subtilis cells was determined by measurement of enzyme activity after the addition of uridine to repress further enzyme synthesis and by specific immunoprecipitation of the enzyme from cells grown in the presence of [3H]leucine. Aspartate transcarbamylase was degraded with a half-life of about 1.5 h in cells growing on a glucose-salts medium with NH4+ ions as the sole source of nitrogen. Replacement of NH4+ in this medium with a combination of the amino acids aspartate, glutamate, isoleucine, proline, and threonine reduced the degradation rate to an undetectable level. Various other amino acids and amino acid mixtures had smaller effects on the rate of degradation. The carbon source also influenced the degradation rate, but to a smaller extent than the nitrogen source. The effects of these nutritional variables on the rate of bulk protein turnover in growing cells were generally similar to their effects on degradation of aspartate transcarbamylase. Since the degradation of aspartate transcarbamylase has been shown to be 10 to 20 times faster than bulk protein turnover, the results suggest that a substantial portion of protein turnover in growing cells represents regulable, rapid degradation of a number of normal proteins, of which aspartate transcarbamylase is an example.
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