| Title | Enzyme Activities Related to the Methanol Oxidation of Mycobacterium sp. strain JC1 DSM 3803 |
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| Author | Youngtae Ro 1 , Eungbin Kim 2 , and Youngmin Kim 2 * |
| Address | 1 Laboratory of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Konkuk University, Chungju 380-701, Korea; 2 Department of Biology and Institute of Life Science an |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 38(4),209-217, 2000, |
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| Key Words | Mycobacterium sp. JC1, methanol oxidation, catalase-peroxidase |
| Abstract | Mycobacterium sp. strain JC1 DSM 3803 grown in methanol showed no methanol dehydrogenase or oxidase activities found in most methylotrophic bacteria and yeasts, respectively. Even though the methanol-grown cells exhibited a little methanol-dependent oxidation by cytochrome c-dependent methanol dehydrogenase and alcohol dehydrogenase, they were not the key enzymes responsible for the methanol oxidation of the cells, in that the cells contained no c-type cytochrome and the methanol oxidizing activity from the partially purified alcohol dehydrogenase was too low, respectively. In substrate switching experiments, we found that only a catalase-peroxidase among the three types of catalase found in glucose-grown cells was highly expressed in the methanol-grown cells and that its activity was relatively high during the exponential growth phase in Mycobacterium sp. JC1. Therefore, we propose that catalase-peroxidase is an essential enzyme responsible for the methanol metabolism directly or indirectly in Mycobacterium sp. JC1. |
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