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  • 1
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    Archives of microbiology 121 (1979), S. 255-260 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Purine fermentation ; Xanthine dehydrogenase ; Selenium ; Tungsten ; Molybdenum ; Clostridium acidiurici ; Clostridium cylindrosporum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The xanthine dehydrogenase of Clostridium acidiurici and C. cylindrosporum was assayed with methyl viologen as acceptor. In C. acidiurici the basal activity level was about 0.3 μmol/min x mg of protein. Cells grown on uric acid in the presence of 10-7 M selenite showed a 14-fold increase in xanthine dehydrogenase activity, which decreased with higher selenite concentrations (10-5 M). The supplementation with 10-7 M molybdate or tungstate was without effect. High concentrations of tungstate decreased the xanthine dehydrogenase if selenite was also present. In comparison, high concentrations of molybdate affected only a small decrease in activity level at the optimal concentration for selenite and relieved to some degree the inhibitory effect of 10-5 M selenite. With hypoxanthine and xanthine as substrates for growth again only the addition of selenite was necessary to show a similar increase in xanthine dehydrogenase activity. C. acidiurici could be grown in a mineral medium. Both xanthine dehydrogenase and formate dehydrogenase exhibited the highest level of activity if selenite and tungstate were present in that medium. In C. cylindrosporum the basal activity level of xanthine dehydrogenase was about 0.95 μmol/min x mg of protein. The addition of 10-7 M selenite to the growth medium increased the activity level about 3-fold, but the highest level (3.7 U/mg) was reached if 10-7 M molybdate was also added. The presence of tungstate resulted in a decreased enzyme activity.
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  • 2
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    Archives of microbiology 138 (1984), S. 345-353 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Clostridium acidiurici ; Clostridium cylindrosporum ; Clostridium purinolyticum ; Purine metabolism ; Selenite ; Antibiogram ; DNA homology ; Taxonomy
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Eleven strains of obligately purinolytic clostridia have been studied with respect to their assignment to the three type strains of Clostridium acidiurici, C. cylindrosporum, and C. purinolyticum. DNA/DNA-hybridization proved to be the method of choice for differentiation whereas phenotypic characteristics such as spore morphology, substrate spectra, nutritional requirements, product formation, and sensitivity against various antibiotics did not allow unequivocal identification. All strains depended on selenite for growth.
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  • 3
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    Archives of microbiology 140 (1984), S. 2-8 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Eubacterium angustum ; Purine metabolism ; Xanthine dehydrogenase ; Selenium
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract A strictly anaerobic, uric acid, xanthine, and guanine fermenting bacterium was isolated from sewage sludge requiring thiamine as a vitamin. Acetate, formate, ammonia and CO2 were products. Cells were Gram-positive, straight rods, 3 to 6.5 μm long and 1.1 to 1.5 μm wide. They were non-motile, however, possessed flagella. Spore formation could not be obtained. The guanine-plus-cytosine content (G+C) of its deoxyribonucleic acid was 40.3 mol%. Based on these features, the organism belongs to the genus Eubacterium. Due to its restricted substrate spectrum and its inability to utilize arginine or to form cytochromes like E. lentum, this organism did not resemble any of the previously described species of Eubacterium. Therefore, it is proposed to form a new species Eubacterium angustum sp. nov.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Glycine decarboxylase ; Glycine reductase ; Lipoamide dehydrogenase ; Selenoprotein PA ; Eubacterium acidaminophilum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Antibodies raised against the glycine decarboxylase proteins P1, P2, P3, and the selenoprotein PA, a component of the glycine reductase complex, were used for immunocytochemical localization experiments. Cells of Eubacterium acidaminophilum from logarithmic growth phase were fixed in the growth media with paraformaldehyde and glutaraldehyde. Fixed cells were embedded by the low-temperature procedure using Lowicryl K4M resin, and the protein A-gold technique was applied for the localization experiments. The vicinity of the cytoplasmic membrane contained about 27% of all gold particles when proteins P1 and P2 were to be localized, 50% for protein PA, and 61% for protein P3. Double immunocytochemical labeling experiments gave evidence for the existence of a protein P1/P2 complex located predominantly in the cytoplasm, and a P3/PA complex located at the cytoplasmic membrane. Only in very few instances the labels for proteins P3 and P1 were seen very close together in respective doublelabeling experiments. These results indicate that glycine decarboxylase does not occur in this organism as a complex consisting of all four proteins, but that protein P3, the atypical lipoamide dehydrogenase, takes part in both the glycine decarboxylase as well as in the glycine reductase reaction.
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  • 5
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    Archives of microbiology 170 (1998), S. 442-450 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Key words Tissierella creatinophila ; Sarcosine ; reductase ; Protein C ; Protein A ; Protein Bsarcosine
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Sarcosine reductase is the only reductase system present in Tissierella creatinophila when grown on creatinine plus formate. The acetyl-phosphate-forming component protein C was purified to homogeneity. SDS-PAGE of the purified protein revealed two protein bands with apparent mol. masses of 62 and 50 kDa. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the two subunits was determined. Antibodies raised against each of the subunits of protein C from Eubacterium acidaminophilum cross-reacted with the corresponding protein present in T. creatinophila, Clostridium litorale and Clostridium sporogenes. The arsenate-dependent hydrolysis of acetyl phosphate catalyzed by protein C was partly inhibited by antibodies directed against the large subunit. Antibodies raised against the small subunit were twice as effective, which indicates that this subunit is the primary site of acetyl transfer from acetyl phosphate. The protein A component of the sarcosine reductase of T. creatinophila was purified to homogeneity by cochromatography with thioredoxin reductase on DEAE-Sephacel, hydroxylapatite, Q-Sepharose, and Sephacryl 100-HR. Protein A had an apparent mol. mass of 21 kDa. Its N-terminal amino acid sequence showed high similarities to that of other proteins A. Initial steps for the purification and preliminary characterization of the sarcosine-specific, substrate-binding protein Bsarcosine component of T. creatinophila indicated the involvement of a 50-kDa protein.
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    Archives of microbiology 171 (1999), S. 417-423 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Key words Alanine dehydrogenase ; Ammonia ; assimilation ; Mycobacterium ; Morpholine degradation
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract An NAD-dependent, morpholine-stimulated l-alanine dehydrogenase activity was detected in crude extracts from morpholine-, pyrrolidine-, and piperidine-grown cells of Mycobacterium strain HE5. Addition of morpholine to the assay mixture resulted in an up to 4.6-fold increase of l-alanine dehydrogenase activity when l-alanine was supplied at suboptimal concentration. l-Alanine dehydrogenase was purified to near homogeneity using a four-step purification procedure. The native enzyme had a molecular mass of 160 kDa and contained one type of subunit with a molecular mass of 41 kDa, indicating a tetrameric structure. The sequence of 30 N-terminal amino acids was determined and showed a similarity of up to 81% to that of various alanine dehydrogenases. The pH optimum for the oxidative deamination of l-alanine, the only amino acid converted by the enzyme, was determined to be pH 10.1, and apparent K m values for l-alanine and NAD were 1.0 and 0.2 mM, respectively. K m values of 0.6, 0.02, and 72 mM for pyruvate, NADH, and NH4 +, respectively, were estimated at pH 8.7 for the reductive amination reaction.
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    Archives of microbiology 69 (1969), S. 160-170 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary 0761 05 1. The pathway of gluconate fermentation by C. aceticum has been investigated. Gluconate is degraded via 2-keto-3-deoxygluconate (KDG)1 and 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate (KDPG) which is cleaved to yield pyruvate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. 2. Gluconate dehydrase was present in high activity in cells grown on gluconate, but not in cells grown on fructose. The amounts of KDG kinase and KDPG aldolase in gluconate and fructose grown cells did not differ significantly. 3. The three enzymes involved in gluconate breakdown have been characterized with respect to their requirements for reducing agents and metal ions. Gluconate dehydrase requires a sulfhydryl compound and ferrous ions for activity, KDG kinase a divalent metal ion for activity. Sulfhydryl compounds and metal ions are not necessary for KDPG aldolase activity. 4. When suspensions of washed cells of C. aceticum fermented gluconate, KDG was accumulated in the medium.
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    Archives of microbiology 134 (1983), S. 167-169 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Nitrogenase ; Glutamine synthetase ; Glutamate synthase ; Glutamate dehydrogenase ; Asparagine synthetase ; Alanine dehydrogenase ; β-Methylaspartase ; Clostridium formicoaceticum
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Clostridium formicoaceticum possesses the following enzymes for the assimilation of N2 and NH 4 + : nitrogenase, glutamine synthetase, NADH- and NADPH-dependent glutamate synthase, NADH- and NADPH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase, NADPH-dependent alamine dehydrogenase, and NH 4 + -dependent asparagine synthetase. Nitrogenase and glutamine synthetase are repressed and alanine dehydrogenase is induced by NH 4 + , while the synthesis of the other enzymes is not influenced by the extracellular NH 4 + level. Glutamate is degraded via glutamate mutase and β-methylaspartase.
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  • 9
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    Archives of microbiology 147 (1987), S. 295-299 
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Clostridium acidiurici ; Clostridium cylindrosporum ; Tungsten uptake ; Molybdate antagonism ; Formate dehydrogenase ; Tungsten-binding-storage protein
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Uptake of tungstate by growing cells was unaffected by the presence of molybdate in Clostridium cylindrosporum, whereas in C. acidiurici the accumulation was decreased by molybdate at 10-6 mol/l tungstate and higher concentrations. The labelling pattern of soluble proteins by 185W-tungsten indicated after gel chromatography the presence of three different tungstoproteins in both bacteria. Formate dehydrogenase activity always eluted at a maximum of tungsten labelling. The incorporation of tungsten into formate dehydrogenase containing fractions and a possible tungsten-binding-storage protein was independent of the presence of excess molydate pointing to a genuine role for tungstate in these bacteria.
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  • 10
    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Interspecies hydrogen transfer ; Interspecies formate transfer ; Alanine ; Serine ; Glycine fermentation ; Selenium ; Glycine reductase ; Sarcosine reduction ; Betaine reduction ; Eubacterium acidaminophilum
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    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract An obligately anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium was isolated on alanine in co-culture with H2-scavenging Desulfovibrio and obtained in pure culture with glycine as sole fermentation substrate. The isolated strain, al-2, was motile by a polar to subpolar flagellum and stained Gram-positive. The guanine plus cytosine content of the DNA was 44.0 mol%. Strain al-2 grew in defined, reduced glycine media supplemented with biotin. The pure culture fermented 4 mol glycine to 3 mol acetate, 4 mol ammonia and 2 mol CO2. Under optimum conditions (34°C, pH 7.3), the doubling time on glycine was 60 min and the molar growth yield 7.6 g cell dry mass. Serine was fermented to acetate, ethanol, CO2, H2 and ammonia. In addition, betaine, sarcosine or creatine served as substrates for growth and acetate production if H2, formate or e.g. valine were added as H-donors. In pure culture on alanine under N2, strain al-2 grew very poorly and produced H2 up to a partial pressure of 3.6 kPa (0.035 atm). Desulfovibrio species, Methanospirillum hungatei and Acetobacterium woodii served as H2-scavengers that allowed good syntrophic growth on alanine. The co-cultures also grew on aspartate, leucine, valine or malate. Alanine and aspartate were stoichiometrically degraded to acetate and ammonia, whereas the reducing equivalents were recovered as H2S, CH4 or newly synthetized acetate, respectively. Growth of strain al-2 in co-culture with the hydrogenase-negative, formate-utilizing Desulfovibrio baarsii indicated that a syntrophy was also possible by interspecies formate transfer. Growth on glycine, or on betaine, sarcosine or creatine (plus H-donors) depended strictly on the addition of selenite (≥0.1 μM); selenite was not required for fermentation of serine, or for degradation of alanine, aspartate or valine by the co-cultures. Cell-free extracts of glycine-grown cells contained active glycine reductase, glycine decarboxylase and reversible methyl viologen-dependent formate dehydrogenase in addition to the other enzymes necessary for an oxidation to CO2. In all reactions NADP was the preferred H-carrier. Both formate and glycine could be synthesized from bicarbonate. Serine-grown cells did not contain serine hydroxymethyl transferase but serine dehydratase and other enzymes commonly involved in pyruvate metabolism to acetate, CO2 and H2. The enzymes involved in glycine metabolism were repressed during growth on serine. By its morphology and physiology, strain al-2 did not resemble described amino acid-degrading species. Therefore, the new isolate is proposed as type strain of a new species, Eubacterium acidaminophilum.
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