Studies

PGK-GAPDH reactions were studied in vitro at 30 and 70 using yeast or Sso enzymes

SED-ML: https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig4b/simulate https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig4c/simulate

PGK reaction at 30 C. Yeast PGK was incubated at 30 C, in the presence or absence of the ATP recycling system, and the conversion of 3 PG to BPG was followed. SED-ML simulations Fig. 1A: https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig1a/simulate

PGK reaction at 70C. Sulfolobus solfataricus PGK was incubated at 70C in presence and absence of an ATP recycling system. Changes in metabolite concentrations was followed via 31P NMR or enzymatic analyses.

SED-ML: https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig3b/simulate https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig3c/simulate https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig3d/simulate

BPG produced with yeast PGK was incubated at 70 C,upon which BPG rapidly dephosphorylates to 3PG. SED-ML: https://jjj.bio.vu.nl/models/experiments/kouril2017_fig2b/simulate

Genotype: Wildtype (M145E) Medium: Phosphate-limited (F134)

Here you will find guidelines for creating MIAPE compliant proteomics data files as well as examples and links to online tools and resources

Here you will find guidelines for creating MAGE-TAB compliant transcriptomics data files as well as examples and links to online tools and resources.

Determination of essential amino acids for Streptococcus pyogenes M49

Lactic acid bacteria generally use homolactic fermentation for generation of ATP. Here we studied the role of Arginine and Glutamine metabolism on the general physiology of the lactic acid bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes. A deletion mutant of glnA (glutamine synthetase) has been constructed in the S. pyogenes M49 591 background. The glnA mutant strain shows decreased growth in low glutamine and excess glutamate conditions and no growth at all in low glutamine and low glutamate conditions. An arcA ...

The reconstruction of the metabolic networks is done by sequence comparison with already annotated genomes of L. lactis, L. plantarum, B. subtilis and E. coli

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Pyruvate kinase (PYK, EC 2.7.1.40) is a key step in glycolysis converting phosphoenolpyruvate into pyruvate. The activity of PYK is activator-dependent, with the allosteric activation mostly being due to fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP).

Pyruvate formate-lyase (PFL) is an important enzyme in the metabolic pathway of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and is held responsible for the regulation of the shift between homolactic acid to mixed acid fermentation. PFL catalysis the reversible reaction of acetyl-CoA and formate into pyruvate and CoA. A glycyl radical, who is regenerated within the reaction, is involved; therefore, PFL works only under strictly anaerobic conditions. For its activation, the C-terminal domain has to bind to the ...

The two lactic acid bacteria L. lactis and S. pyogenes were studied with respect to the concentration of intracellular metabolites involved in glycolysis in time upon a glucose pulse. Models that describe this behavior are also constructed

Lactic acid bacteria generally use homolactic fermentation for generation of ATP. Here we studied the role of the lactate dehydrogenase enzyme on the general physiology of the three lactic acid bacteria Lactococcus lactis, Enterococcus faecalis and Streptococcus pyogenes. Surprisingly deletion of the ldh genes hardly affected the growth rate in chemically defined medium, however growth rate was affected in rich medium. Furthermore, deletion of ldh affected the ability for utilization of various ...

Since over 40 enzymes will be investigated for their mRNA abundance, processing, and degradation kinetics, the less tedious and more accurate Next Generation Sequencing of the entire mRNA repertoire of the cell is employed. To optimise the proportion of useful sequence, while including RNA fragments that are products of of degradation, rRNA is depleted using the eukaryotic Ribominus kit (Ambion). Two biological replicates are treated with Sinefungin and Actinomycin D to inhibit RNA processing and ...

For cells to accurately read out the genomic content, high fidelity during transcription is required. This is mainly established by the accuracy of the active centre of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Based on in vitro experiments with Escherichia coli RNAP it was also suggested that proofreading of transcription via RNA hydrolysis by RNAP may contribute to overall fidelity and processivity. RNAP’s intrinsic cleavage activity is stimulated by the highly conserved Gre factors suggesting that Gre factors ...

The enzyme Trypanothione Synthetase (TryS) is a complex enzyme that catalyses the two step reaction that forms trypanothione from 2 molecules of GSH and 1 molecule of Spd and the use of ATP

A set of isogenic mutant strains was constructed which lack NADH Dehydrogenase I as well as two terminal oxidases, resulting in strains with linear respiratory chain. The different strains hence differ in the terminal oxidase and express either cytochrome bo, cytochrome bdI or cytochrome bdII. The different strains were cultivated in glucose-limited chemostats with defined low levels of oxygen supply. Biomass and by-product formation, gene expression and the phosphorylation state of the important ...

Carbon loss due to instability of gluconeogenic pathway intermediates (BPG, GAP, DHAP) at high temperature in S. solfataricus

Mathematical model of a subset of reactions comprising the three most temperature sensitive intermediates of the gluconeogenic pathway in S. solfataricus

Mutant strains in which one or more of the potential glucose uptake systems was deleted have been analyzed in aerobic and anaerobic batch cultures, as well as aerobic chemostat cultures.

The aim of the study is to assess the global function of RNase Y in RNA processing and degradation in Bacillus subtilis. To this end we constructed a strain allowing controlled depletion of RNase Y and used microarrays to analyze the transcriptome in response to the expression level of RNase Y.