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Research has been conducted on the Chryseobacterium meningosepticum producing a phosphate-irrepressible periplasmic alkaline phosphatase. The cloning of the gene encoding C. meningosepticum enzyme and the characterization of its product have been carried out and examined.
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Research has been conducted on the Comamonas testosteroni which metabolizes testosterone as the carbon source via the meta-cleavage reaction. The cloning of the meta-cleavage enzyme gene tesB from C. testosteroni TA441 has been carried out and the results indicate that the deduced N-terminal amino acid tesB sequence matches that of purified meta-cleavage enzyme induced in TA441 during growth on testosterone.
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The gene coding for the Morganella morganii phosphate-irrepressible acid phosphatase (NapA) is an acid phosphatase that has four polypeptide subunits of 27 kDa each. The enzyme has a transphosphorylating potential from organic phosphoric acid esters to nucleoside and other free hydroxyl group-containing compounds. Inorganic phosphate, EDTA, Ca2+ and nucleosides prevent enzyme activity while Co2+, Hg2+ and Zn2+ and Zn2+ promote the same. The NapA enzyme does not exhibit sequence similarity with any sequenced bacterial phosphatase but is similar to the proteins encoded by sequenced regions in the open reading frames of Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis genomes. It is proposed that NapA is a member of the new class B-family bacterial acid phosphatases.
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