Cellular location of enzymes involved in chondroitin sulfate breakdown by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron - PubMed (original) (raw)

Cellular location of enzymes involved in chondroitin sulfate breakdown by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron

A A Salyers et al. J Bacteriol. 1980 Aug.

Abstract

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a gram-negative anaerobe found in human colons, could utilize chondroitin sulfate, a tissue mucopolysaccharide, as its sole source of carbohydrate. The enzymes responsible for the breakdown of chondroitin sulfate by B. thetaiotaomicron were similar to those produced by Proteus vulgaris and Flavobacterium heparinum and included a lyase (EC 4.2.2.4), which degraded chondroitin sulfate into sulfated disaccharides, sulfatases (EC 3.1.6.4), which removed the sulfate residues, and a glucuronidase, which broke the unsulfated disaccharides into monosaccharide components. Chondroitin sulfate lyase, the first enzyme in the breakdown sequence, was not extracellular. It appeared to be located in the periplasmic space since lyase activity was released by treatment with ethylenediaminetetraacetate and lysozyme. Moreover, sodium polyanethole sulfonate, a high-molecular-weight inhibitor of chondroitin lyase, did not inhibit breakdown of chondroitin sulfate by intact bacteria. The sulfatase and glucuronidase appeared to be intracellular. None of these enzymes was strongly bound to membranes, and none of the steps in the breakdown of chondroitin sulfate was sensitive to oxygen.

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