Affiliation:
1. Microbiology Research Laboratories, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Abstract
Dextran stimulation (priming) of the dextransucrase (EC 2.4.1.5) from
Streptococcus mutans
strain 6715 was studied. The dextransucrase activity in supernatant fluids from glucose-grown cultures was shown to be partially primer dependent. During extended storage at 4 C the enzyme retained its activity. However, the ability to make dextran became increasingly primer dependent. Hydroxylapatite-chromatographed enzyme preparations were completely dependent upon added dextran for rapid synthesis of methanol-insoluble glucan from sucrose. Half-maximal stimulation of new dextran synthesis occurred with dextran at a concentration of 2 to 3 μM and with a molecular weight of about 2,600. Neither glycogen, amylose, inulin, nor isomaltose functioned as primer. Studies with the dextransucrase activities detectable by in situ assay in polyacrylamide gels subjected to electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions revealed that the major activity was detectable in the presence of sucrose alone and was stimulated by addition of primer dextran. The minor activity was only detected when primer dextran was present. Homogeneous preparations of both enzymes contained 30 to 40% carbohydrate.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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