Abstract：
:Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen responsible for causing nosocomial infections, corneal ulcer, necrotizing fasciitis, cellulites, and brain abscess. Alkaline phosphatase (APase) is believed to play an important role in the survival of several intracellular pathogens and their adaptation. We have studied the effect of low phosphate concentration and acid pH on the APase activities of S. marcescens. In a low phosphate medium, some strains of S. marcescens synthesize two different types of APases, a constitutive (CAPase) and an inducible (IAPase). Both the CAPase and IAPase isoenzymes completely lost their enzyme activities at pH 2.3, within 10 min of incubation at 0 degrees C. Acid-treated IAPase isoenzymes I, II, III, and IV solutions when adjusted to pH 7.8 showed recovery of 70%, 52%, 72%, and 60% of the lost activities, respectively. When the pH of the CAPase reaction mixture was raised to pH 7.8, the enzyme activity regained only 5% of its initial activity. Variations in protein concentration also affected the pH-dependent reversible changes of the IAPase activity. The higher the protein concentration, the faster the inactivation of enzyme activity observed at acidic pH at 0 degrees C. Conversely, the lower the protein concentration, the higher the rate of reactivation of enzyme activity observed for IAPase at alkaline pH. Protein interaction studies revealed a lack of similarity between CAPase and IAPase, suggesting separate genetic origin of these potentially virulent genes of S. marcescens.
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Curr Microbioljournal_title
Current microbiologyauthors
Bhatti AR,Alvi A,Walia S,Chaudhry GRdoi
10.1007/s00284-002-3740-7keywords:
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2002-10-01 00:00:00pages
245-9issue
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0343-8651issn
1432-0991journal_volume
45pub_type
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