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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 194, Issue 5, Pages 1045-1054Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.05914-11
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- Medical Research Services of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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The putative glycine dehydrogenase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalyzes the reductive amination of glyoxylate to glycine but not the reverse reaction. The enzyme was purified and identified as the previously characterized alanine dehydrogenase. The Aid enzyme was expressed in Escherichia coli and had both pyruvate and glyoxylate aminating activities. The gene, aid, was inactivated in M. tuberculosis, which resulted in the loss of all activities. Both enzyme activities were found associated with the cell and were not detected in the extracellular filtrate. By using an anti-Aid antibody, the protein was localized to the cell membrane, with a smaller fraction in the cytosol. None was detected in the extracellular medium. The aid knockout strain grew without alanine or glycine and was able to utilize glycine but not alanine as a nitrogen source. Transcription of aid was induced when alanine was the sole nitrogen source, and higher levels of Ald enzyme were measured. Ald is proposed to have several functions, including ammonium incorporation and alanine breakdown.
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