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    Cloning and Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf Gene Encoding Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Important in Resistance to Methyl Viologen (Paraquat)

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    Ma, Ju-Fang; Hager, Paul W.; Howell, Michael L.; Phibbs, Paul V.; Hassett, Daniel J.
    Abstract
    In this study, we cloned the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf gene, encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), an enzyme that catalyzes the NAD1- or NADP1-dependent conversion of glucose-6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconate. The predicted zwf gene product is 490 residues, which could form a tetramer with a molecular mass of ;220 kDa. G6PDH activity and zwf transcription were maximal in early logarithmic phase when inducing substrates such as glycerol, glucose, or gluconate were abundant. In contrast, both G6PDH activity and zwf transcription plummeted dramatically when bacteria approached stationary phase, when inducing substrate was limiting, or when the organisms were grown in a citrate-, succinate-, or acetatecontaining basal salts medium. G6PDH was purified to homogeneity, and its molecular mass was estimated to be ;220 kDa by size exclusion chromatography. Estimated Km values of purified G6PDH acting on glucose- 6-phosphate, NADP1, and NAD1 were 530, 57, and 333 mM, respectively. The specific activities with NAD1 and NADP1 were calculated to be 176 and 69 mmol/min/mg. An isogenic zwf mutant was unable to grow on minimal medium supplemented with mannitol. The mutant also demonstrated increased sensitivity to the redox-active superoxide-generating agent methyl viologen (paraquat). Since one by-product of G6PDH activity is NADPH, the latter data suggest that this cofactor is essential for the activity of enzymes critical in defense against paraquat toxicity. Originally published Journal of Bacteriology, Vol. 180, No. 7, Apr 1998
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3345
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     Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Paraquat; G6PDH 
    Date
    1998-04
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    Ma, Ju-Fang, & Hager, Paul W., & Howell, Michael L., & Phibbs, Paul V., & Hassett, Daniel J.. (April 1998). Cloning and Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf Gene Encoding Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Important in Resistance to Methyl Viologen (Paraquat). Journal of Bacteriology, (180:7), p.1741-1749. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3345

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    Ma, Ju-Fang, and Hager, Paul W., and Howell, Michael L., and Phibbs, Paul V., and Hassett, Daniel J.. "Cloning and Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf Gene Encoding Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Important in Resistance to Methyl Viologen (Paraquat)". Journal of Bacteriology. 180:7. (1741-1749.), April 1998. April 19, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3345.
    Chicago:
    Ma, Ju-Fang and Hager, Paul W. and Howell, Michael L. and Phibbs, Paul V. and Hassett, Daniel J., "Cloning and Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf Gene Encoding Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Important in Resistance to Methyl Viologen (Paraquat)," Journal of Bacteriology 180, no. 7 (April 1998), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3345 (accessed April 19, 2021).
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    Ma, Ju-Fang, Hager, Paul W., Howell, Michael L., Phibbs, Paul V., Hassett, Daniel J.. Cloning and Characterization of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa zwf Gene Encoding Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, an Enzyme Important in Resistance to Methyl Viologen (Paraquat). Journal of Bacteriology. April 1998; 180(7) 1741-1749. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3345. Accessed April 19, 2021.
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