Characterization of glutamine synthetase from the ammonium-excreting strain HM053 of Azospirillum brasilense

Abstract Glutamine synthetase (GS), encoded by glnA, catalyzes the conversion of L-glutamate and ammonium to L-glutamine. This ATP hydrolysis driven process is the main nitrogen assimilation pathway in the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Azospirillum brasilense. The A. brasilense strain HM053 has poor GS activity and leaks ammonium into the medium under nitrogen fixing conditions. In this work, the glnA genes of the wild type and HM053 strains were cloned into pET28a, sequenced and overexpressed in E. coli. The GS enzyme was purified by affinity chromatography and characterized. The GS of HM053 strain carries a P347L substitution, which results in low enzyme activity and rendered the enzyme insensitive to adenylylation by the adenilyltransferase GlnE.

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Main Authors:	Ghenov,Fernanda, Gerhardt,Edileusa Cristina Marques, Huergo,Luciano Fernandes, Pedrosa,Fabio Oliveira, Wassem,Roseli, Souza,Emanuel Maltempi
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Internacional de Ecologia 2022
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842022000100160
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