Dobrogosz, Walter J. (University of Illinois, Urbana) and Ralph D. DeMoss. Induction and repression of l-arabinose isomerase in Pediococcus pentosaceus. J. Bacteriol. 85:1350-1355. 1963.-The inducible l-arabinose isomerase of Pediococcus pentosaceus can be rapidly and conveniently measured in whole-cell preparations by use of a standard colorimetric procedure originally developed for studies wi...

1. Measurements were made of the non-oxidative reactions of the pentose phosphate cycle in liver (transketolase, transaldolase, ribulose 5-phosphate epimerase and ribose 5-phosphate isomerase activities) in a variety of hormonal and nutritional conditions. In addition, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase activities were measured for comparison with the oxidati...

entamoeba histolytica is the etiological agent of invasive amoebiasis, the third leading parasitic cause of mortality in the world. our aim was to find a molecular correlation between a glucosephosphate isomerase zymodeme analyses in e. histolytica zymodemes. it was demonstrated that natural and recombinant glucosephosphate isomerase enzymes of e. histolytica comigrated in the starch gel electr...

In 1933 Lohmann (1) demonstrated the existence of phosphohexose isomerase, the enzyme which mediates the reversible conversion of glucose-6-phosphate to fructose-6-phosphate, in dialyzed frog lnuscle extracts and in simple aqueous extracts of yeast, heart, kidney, liver, and brain. Tank6 (2) and, more recently, Somers and Cosby (3) have found this enzyme to be present in pea meal. Slein (4) has...

In a program to elucidate the mechanism by which phosphoglucose isomerasel participates in the catalyzed isomerization between glucose 6-phosphate and fructose g-phosphate, isolation of the enzyme from several sources is pursued as the basis for quantitative studies of its protein nature. The comparative investigation of several heteroenzymes appears to be a valuable tool in identifying the str...