Regulation of pectic enzymes fom the exo-1 mutant strain of Neurospora crassa: Effects of glucose, galactose, and galacturonic acid

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 181-188

  Crotti, Luciana B ^a   Terenzi, Héctor F ^a   Jorge, João A ^a   Polizeli, Maria De Lourdes T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME REGULATION; GALACTOSE; GALACTURONIC ACID; GLUCOSE; MUTANT;

ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; HEXURONIC ACIDS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PECTINS; POLYGALACTURONASE; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES;

EID: 0031878285     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4028(199807)38:3<181::AID-JOBM181>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. AGUILAR, G. and HUITRÓN, C., 1986. Application of fed-batch cultures in the production of extracellular pectinases by Aspergillus sp. Enzyme Microbiol. Technol., 8, 541-545.
2. AGUILAR, G. and HUITRÓN, C., 1987. Stimulation of the production of extracellular pectolytic activities of Aspergillus sp. by galacturonic acid and glucose addition. Enzyme Microbiol. Technol., 9, 690-696.
3. AYERS, W. A., PAPAVIZAS, G. C. and DIEM, D. J., 1966. Polygalacturonase transeliminase and polygalacturonase production by Rhizoctonia solani. Phytopathol., 56, 1006-1011.
4. BARRACAT-PEREIRA, M. C., MINUSSI, R. C., COELHO, J. L. C. and SILVA, D. O., 1997. Tea extract as an inexpensive inducer of pectin lyase in Penicillium griseoroseum cultured on sucrose. J. Industrial Microbial. & Biotechnol., 18, 308-311.
5. BLANCO, P., SIEIRO, C., DIAZ, A. and VILLA, T. G., 1994. Production and partial characterisation of an endopolygalacturonase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Can. J. Microbiol., 40, 974-977.
6. BRUMANO, M. H. N., COELHO, J. L. C., ARAUJO, E. F. and SILVA, D. O., 1993. Production of pectin lyase by Penicillium griseoroseum as a function of the inoculum and culture conditions. World J. Microbiol. and Biotechnol., 9, 225-228.
7. COLLMER, A., RIED, J. L. and MOUNT, M. S., 1988. Assay methods for pectic enzymes. In: Methods in Enzymology (W. A. WOOD and S. T. KELLOGGY, Editors), v. 161, pp. 326-335. Academic Press, New York.
8. CROTTI, L. B., JORGE, J. A., TERENZI, H. F. and POLIZELI, M. L. T. M., 1996. Purification and characterisation of galactose-induced pectinases from the exo-1 mutant strain of Neurospora crassa. In: Pectins and Pectinases (VISSER, J. and VORAGEN, A. G. J., editors), pp. 787-792. Elsevier Science B.V., Netherlands.
9. DE LORENZO, G., SALVI, G., DEGRÀ, L., D'OVIDIO, R. and CERVONE, F., 1987. Induction of extracellular polygalacturonase and its mRNA in the phytopathogenic fungus Fusarium moniliforme. J. Gen. Microbiol., 133, 3365-3373.
10. GRATZNER, H. G. and SHEEHAN, D. N., 1969. Neurospora mutant exhibiting hyperproduction of amylase and invertase. J. Bacteriol., 97, 544-549.
11. KEEN, N. T. and HORTON, J. C., 1966. Induction and repression of endopolygalacturonase synthesis by Pyrenochaeta terrestris. Can. J. Microbiol., 12, 443-453.
12. LEONE, G. and VAN DEN HEUVEL, J., 1987. Regulation by carbohydrates of the sequential "in vitro" production of pectic enzymes by Botrytis cinerea. Can. J. Bot., 65, 2133-2141.
13. MILLER, G. L., 1959. Use of dinitrosalicylic acid reagent for determination of reducing sugars. Anal. Chem., 31, 426-428.
14. NAGEL, C. W. and ANDERSON, M. M., 1965. Action of a bacterial transeliminase on normal and unsatured oligogalacturonic acids. Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 112, 322-330.
15. PATIL, S. S. and DIMOND, A. E., 1968. Repression of polygalacturonase synthesis in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici by sugars and its effect on symptom reduction in infected tomato plants. Phytopathol., 56, 676-682.
16. PHAFF, H. J., 1947. The production of exocellular pectic enzymes by Penicillium chrysogenum. I. On the formation and adaptative nature of polygalacturonase and pectinesterase. Arch. Biochem., 13, 67-81.
17. PIETRO, R. C. L. R., JORGE, J. A. and TERENZI, H. F., 1990. Pleiotropic deficiency in the control of carbon-regulated catabolic enzymes in the "slime" variant of Neurospora crassa. J. Gen. Microbiol., 135, 1375-1382.
18. PITT, D., 1988. Pectin lyase from Phoma medicaginis var. pinodella. In: Methods in Enzymology (W. A. WOOD and S. T. KELLOGGY, Editors), v. 161, pp. 350-354. Academic Press, New York.
19. POLIZELI, M. L. T. M., PIETRO, R. C. L. R., JORGE, J. A. and TERENZI, H. F., 1990. Effects of cell wall deficiency on the synthesis of polysaccharide-degrading exoenzymes. A study on mycelial and wall-less phenotypes of the fz, sg, os-1 ("slime") triple mutant of Neurospora crassa. J. Gen. Microbiol., 136, 1463-1468.
20. POLIZELI, M. L. T. M., JORGE, J. A. and TERENZI, H. F., 1991. Pectinase production by Neurospora crassa: purification and biochemical characterization of extracellular polygalacturonase activity. J. Gen. Microbiol., 137, 1815-1823.
21. ROMBOUTS, F. M. and PILNIK, W., 1980. Pectic enzymes. In: Economic Microbiology (A. H. ROSE, Editor), v. 5, pp. 227-282. Academic Press, New York.
22. SAKAI, T., SAKAMOTO, T., HALLAERT, J. and VANDAMME, E. J., 1993. Pectin, Pectinase, and protopectinase: production, properties, and applications. Adv. Appl. Microbiol., 39, 213-294.
23. SELVENDRAN, R. R., MARCH, J. F. and RING, S. G., 1979. Determination of aldoses and uronic acid content of vegetal fiber. Anal. Biochem., 96, 282-292.
24. TSUYUMU, T., 1979. "Self-catabolite repression" of pectate lyase in Erwinia carotovora. J. Bacteriol., 137, 1035-1036.
25. TUTTOBELLO, R. and MILL, P. J., 1961. The pectic enzymes of Aspergillus niger. I. The production of active mixtures of pectic enzymes. Biochem. J., 79, 51-57.
26. VOGEL, H. J., 1964. Distribution of lysine pathways among fungi: evolutionary implications. Am. Nat., 98, 435-446.
27. WOLFROM, M. L. and THOMPSON, A., 1963. Acetylation. Meth. Carb. Chem., 2, 211-215.
28. YURCHERICH, V. V., 1985. Feed back control of synthesis of secreted enzymes by their level in medium. In: Environmental Regulation of Microbial Metabolism (KULAEV, I. S., VAWES, E. A. and TEMPEST, D. W., editors), Proceedings of the Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium, pp. 317-321. Pushchino, URSS, 1983. Academic Press, New York, London.