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The citrate metabolic pathway in Leuconostoc mesenteroides: expression, amino acid synthesis, and alpha-ketocarboxylate transport.

Abstract：

:Citrate metabolism in Leuconostoc mesenteroides subspecies mesenteroides is associated with the generation of a proton motive force by a secondary mechanism (C. Marty-Teysset, C. Posthuma, J. S. Lolkema, P. Schmitt, C. Divies, and W. N. Konings, J. Bacteriol. 178:2178-2185, 1996). The pathway consists of four steps: (i) uptake of citrate, (ii) splitting of citrate into acetate and oxaloacetate, (iii) pyruvate formation by decarboxylation of oxaloacetate, and (iv) reduction of pyruvate to lactate. Studies of citrate uptake and metabolism in resting cells of L. mesenteroides grown in the presence or absence of citrate show that the citrate transporter CitP and citrate lyase are constitutively expressed. On the other hand, oxaloacetate decarboxylase is under stringent control of the citrate in the medium and is not expressed in its absence, thereby blocking the pathway at the level of oxaloacetate. Under those conditions, the pathway is completely directed towards the formation of aspartate, which is formed from oxaloacetate by transaminase activity. The data indicate a role for citrate metabolism in amino acid biosynthesis. Internalized radiolabeled aspartate produced from citrate metabolism could be chased from the cells by addition of the amino acid precursors oxaloacetate, pyruvate, alpha-ketoglutarate, and alpha-ketoisocaproate to the cells, indicating a broad specificity of the transamination reaction. The alpha-ketocarboxylates are readily transported across the cytoplasmic membrane. alpha-Ketoglutarate uptake in resting cells of L. mesenteroides was dependent upon the presence of an energy source and was inhibited by inhibition of the proton motive force generating F(0)F(1) ATPase and by selective dissipation of the membrane potential and the transmembrane pH gradient. It is concluded that in L. mesenteroides alpha-ketoglutarate is transported via a secondary transporter that may be a general alpha-ketocarboxylate carrier.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Marty-Teysset C,Lolkema JS,Schmitt P,Diviès C,Konings WN

doi

10.1128/jb.178.21.6209-6215.1996

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-11-01 00:00:00

pages

6209-15

issue

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

178

pub_type

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The citrate metabolic pathway in Leuconostoc mesenteroides: expression, amino acid synthesis, and alpha-ketocarboxylate transport.