Properties and regulation of glutamine synthetase from Rhodospirillum rubrum

Regulation of glutamine synthetase. V. Partial purification and properties of glutamine synthetase from Bacillus licheniformis.

The glutamine synthetase of Bacillus licheniformis has been obtained at about 15% purity. Sucrose gradient centrifugation gave a molecular weight value of approximately 612,000. Both l- and d-glutamate can be utilized as substrates in the biosynthetic reaction, although the l isomer was five times more active. The requirement for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) can be partially replaced by guanosi...

Regulation of synthesis of glutamine synthetase by adenylylated glutamine synthetase.

We have examined three mutants of Klebsiella aerogenes whose genetic lesions (glnB, glnD, and glnE) are in loci unlinked to the structural gene for glutamine sythetase (glnA) and in which the control of both the level and state of adenylylation of glutamine synthetase is altered. Each mutation alters a different component of the adenylylation system of glutamine synthetase [L-glutamate:ammonia ...

Regulation of Rhodospirillum rubrum nitrogenase activity. Properties and interconversion of active and inactive Fe protein.

Photosynthesis in Rhodospirillum rubrum

Ribulose 1,5-diphosphate carboxylase has been isolated from autotrophically cultured Rhoclospirillum rubrum. The molecular weight is 120,000. The K, for ribulose 1,5diphosphate is 83 mM, and for CO2 is 59 mM. The enzyme is inhibited by three important metabolites: citrate, an intermediate of the tricarboxylic acid cycle; inorganic phosphate; and 3-phosphoglyceric acid, the product of the reacti...

Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum.

The carbon monoxide dehydrogenase from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum was purified over 600-fold by DEAE-cellulose chromatography, heat treatment, hydroxylapatite chromatography, and preparative scale gel electrophoresis. In vitro, this enzyme catalyzed a two-electron oxidation of CO to form CO2 as the product. The reaction was dependent on the addition of an electron accept...