• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.251-257
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• 2000

Serratia marcescens purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) was purfied to homogeneity by streptomycin sulfate treatment, Sephacry HR S-200 gel filtration chromatography and AMP-agarose affinity chromatography. The specific activity of the enzyme was increased 49-fold during purification with an overall yield of 7.0%. The molecular weight was 168kD as estimated by Sephadex G-150 gel filtration chromatography. The S. marcescens enzyme was composed of six identical subunits with subunit molecular weight of 28kD, as estimated by SDS-PAGE. The Km values of S. marcescens enzyme for inosine and deoxyinsoine were 0.38 and 1.20 mM, respectively. The ph optimum was near 8.0, and the enzyme was relatively heat-stable protein. The enzyme was inactivated com-pletely by 0.5 mM of $Cu^{ 2+}$.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 1999

The effects of purine catabolites in growth media on the Serratia marcescens purine nucleoside phos-phorylase activity were examined. The enzyme activity was decreased above 60% by guanosine(5 to 15mM). The enzyme activity was not affected at low concentration of inosine (0.1∼1mM). The en-zyme activity was decreased approximately by 40∼50% in the presence of high concentrations of aden-osine hypoxanthine and xanthine (5∼15mM) but was not affected at low concentration of adenosine hypoxanthine and xanthine (0.1∼0.5mM). However the enzyme activity was increase by 20% with low concentrations of uric acid(0.5mN). but was decreased by 80% with high concentrations of same purine catabolite (15mM). Also the enxzyme activity was increased by 20% with low concentrations of glyoxylate (0.5mM) final degradative product of uric acid but was decreased by 30∼50% with high con-centrations of glyoxylate (3∼15mM). The enzyme activity was decreased approximately by 20% by the simultaneous addition of inosine hypoxanthine and uricacid at 5mM each whereas it was increased by 22 and 33% by the combination of inosine and uric acid three purine catabolites at 0.5mM respectively These data suggest that S. marcescens purine nucleoside phosphorylase is positively regulated by a glyox-ylate concentration and then may play a regulatory role in a purine catabolism.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.222-231
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• 1994

Kinetic analysis was done to elucidate the reaction mechanism of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The binary complexes of PNP${\cdot}$phosphate and PNP${\cdot}$ribose 1-phosphate were involved in the reaction mechanism. The initial velocity and product inhibition studies demonstrated were consistent with the predominant mechanism of the reaction being an ordered bi, bi reaction. The phosphate bound to the enzyme first, followed by nucleoside and base were the first product to leave, followed by ribose 1-phosphate. The kinetically suggested mechanism of PNP in S. cerevisiae was in agreement with the results of protection studies against the inactivation of the enzyme by sulfhydryl reagents, p-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) and 5,5'-dithiobisnitrobenzoate (DTNB). PNP was protected by ribose 1-phosphate and phosphate, but not by nucleoside or base, supporting the reaction order of ordered bi, bi mechanism. PCMB or DTNB-inactivated PNP was totally reactivated by dithiothreitol (DTT) and the activity was returned to the level of 77% by 2-mercaptoethanol, indicating that inactivation was reversible. The kinetic behavior of the PCMB-inactivated enzyme had been changed with higher $K_m$ value of inosine and lower $V_m$, and was restored by DTT. Inactivation of enzyme by DTNB showed similar pattern of K sub(m) value with that by PCMB, but had not changed the $V_m$ value, significantly. Negative cooperativity was not found with PCMB or DTNB treated PNP at high concentration of phosphate.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.270-273
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• 1996

Micrococcus luteus purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) has been purified and characterized. The physical and kinetic properties have been described previously. Chemical modification of the enzyme was attempted to gain insight on the active site. The enzyme was inactivated in a time-dependent manner by the arginine- specific modifying reagent phenylglyoxal. There was a linear relationship between the observed rate of inactivation and the phenylglyoxal concentration. At 30 $^{\circ}C$ the bimolecular rate constant for the modification was 0.015 $min^{-1}mM^{-1}$ in 50 mM $NaHCO_3$ buffer, pH 7.5. The plot of logk versus log phenylglyoxal concentration was a strainght line with a slope value of 0.9, indicating that modification of one arginine residue was needed to inactivate the enzyme. Preincubation with saturated solutions of substrates protected the enzyme from inhibition of phenylglyoxal, indicating that reactions with phenylglyoxal were directed at arginyl residues essential for the catalytic functioning of the enzyme.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.82-89
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• 1996

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) was purified in Micrococcus luteus (M. luteus) using streptomycin sulfate and amomonium sulfate fractionation, three times by a Sephadex G-100 gel filtration and a DEAE-Sephadex A-50 ion exchange chromatography. The enzyme was purified 72 folds with a 11% recovery and showed a single band in a nondenaturing gel electrophoresis. The M. W. of PNP turned out to be 1.35 * 10$^{5}$ delton in G-150 gel filtration chromatography. The stability of the enzyme was increased by treatment with both substrates, MgCI$_{2}$ or CaCI$_{2}$, but not significantly kcal/mol. M. luteus PNP catalyzed the phosphorolysis of inosine, deoxyinosine, guanosine and deoxyguanosine with the Km value of 1.5 * 10$^{-3}$ M, 3.0 * 10$^{-3}$ M, 5.0 * 10$^{-4}$ M, respectively. The enzyme was reacted with adenosine, 1-methylnosine and 1-methylguanosine as substrates, which were shown to be poor substrates for mammalian enzyme.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.172-178
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• 1991

Intracellular purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was partially purified using ammonium sulfate fractionation, heat treatment, a DEAE-Sephadex A-50 anion exchange chromatography and a Sephadex G-100 gel filtration chromatography. The enzyme was purified 20 fold with 3% recovery. The stability of enzyme was kept by addition of inosine and dithiothreitol. The pH optimum was found to be from 6.3 to 7.3 PNP was sensitive to 10mM of $Hg^{2+}$ , $Cu^{2+}$ , and was inactivated completely by 2 mM of p-chloromercuribenzoate and 5,5'-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoate). The enzyme was capable of catalyzing the phosphorolysis of inosine, deoxyinosine, guanosine, deoxyguanosine and adenosine.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.148-156
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• 1993

Kinetic parameters of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) from Saccharomyces cerevisiae were measured. The Michaelis constants determined for substrates of the enzyme were $ 2.0 * 10^{-4}$ M for inosine, $2.0 *10^{-3}$ M for deoxyinosine, $ 2.0 * 10^{-5}$ M for guanosine and $2.0 10 ^{-5}$ M for deoxyguanosine. According to the ratio of relative $K_{cat}$Km, substrate specificity of each nucleoside was in the order of guanosine or deoxyguanosine, inosine and deoxyinosine. Cosubstrate, phosphate, revealed downward curvature in Lineweaver-Burk plot at high concentrations, indicating a negative cooperativity between subunits. The inhibition constants for purine analogs were measured to be $ 6 * 10^{-4}$ M for formycin B as the competitive inhibitor of inosine, $ 9 * 10^{-6}$ M for guanine as the competitive inhibitor of guanosine, $2 * 10^{-4}$ M for hypoxanthine as the non competitive inhibitor of guanosine and $4.5 * 10 ^{-4}$ M for 6-mercaptopurine as the non competitive inhibitor of guanosine. Alternative substrates, guanosine, deoxyguanosine and adenosine were found to act as competitive inhibitors with Ki values o $f^ 2.0 * 10 {-5}$ M, $2.6 * 10^{-5}$ M and $8.5 * 10 ^{-4}$ M, respectively, when inosine was the variable substrate. Guanosine and deoxyguanosine were also observed as competitive inhibitors with the Ki values of $1.8 * 10^{-5}$ M and $ 3.0 * 10^{-5}$ M, respectively, when deoxyinesine was the variable substrate. The results of alternative substrate sstudies suggested that a single enzyme acted on different nucleosides, inosine, deoxyinosine, adenosine, guanosine and deoxyguanosine.e.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 1997

Kinetic studies were done to elucidate the reaction mechanism of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) in Micrococcus Luteus. PNP catalyzes the reversible phosphorolysis of ribonucleosides to their respective base. The effect of alternative competing substrates suggested that a single enzyme was involved in binding to the active site for all purine nucleosides, inosine, deoxyiosine, guanosine, deoxyguanosine, adenosine and deoxyadenosine. Affinity studies showed that pentose moiety reduced the binding capacity and methylation of ring N-1 of inosine and guanosine had little effect on binding to bacterial enzyme, whereas these compounds did not bind to the mammalian enzymes. The initial velocity and product inhibition studies demonstrated that the predominant mechanism of reaction was an ordered bi, bi reaction. The nucleoside bound to the enzyme first, followed by phosphate. Ribose 1-phosphate was the first product to leave, followed by base.

• Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.361-365
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• 2001

The effects of purine catabolites in growth media on the biosynthesis of Serratia marcescens and Lactobacillus plantarum purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) activity were examined. Serratia PNP activity was decreased approximately by 30% in the presence of high concentrations of inosine $(5{\sim}15\;mM)$, but was not affected at low concentrations of inosine $(0.1{\sim}1\;mM)$. However, Lactobacillus PNP activity was increased above 60% by inosine among the range from 5 to 15 mM. Serratia PNP activity was decreased approximately by 45% in the presence of high concentrations of hypoxanthine $(5{\sim}15\;mM)$, but was not affected at low concentrations of hypoxanthine $(0.1{\sim}0.5\;mM)$. Lactobacillus PNP activity was increased approximately by 20% in the presence of low concentrations of hypoxanthine $(0.1{\sim}0.5\;mM)$, and increased approximately by $50{\sim}65%$ in the presence of concentrations of hypoxanthine $(1{\sim}15\;mM)$. Serratia and Lactobacillus PNP activity was increased 20% by low concentrations of uric acid (0.5 mM), but was decreased $40{\sim}80%$ at high concentrations of same purine catabolite $(10{\sim}15\;mM)$. These data suggest that purine nucleoside phosphorylase in Serratia marcescens ATCC 25419 and Lactobacillus plantarum ATCC 8014 is positively regulated by a low uric acid concentration, and then may play a regulatory role in a purine nucleotide catabolic pathway.

• Proceedings of the Zoological Society Korea Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.218.2-218
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• 1994

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