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  • Title: Isolation and characterization of a novel glutamine synthetase from Rhizobium meliloti.
    Author: Shatters RG, Liu Y, Kahn ML.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1993 Jan 05; 268(1):469-75. PubMed ID: 8093245.
    Abstract:
    Two glutamine synthetases, GSI and GSII, are found in most rhizobia. However, WSU650, a Rhizobium meliloti glnA glnII mutant that lacks both enzymes, can grow without a glutamine supplement in minimal medium that contains both ammonium and glutamate. The bacteria contained a third glutamine synthetase, GSIII, which has been purified and partially characterized. GSIII had considerable glutamine synthetase activity when assayed using a semibiosynthetic (glutamate- and hydroxylamine-dependent) assay, but had no detectable transferase (glutamine- and hydroxyl-amine-dependent) activity. GSIII was inhibited by ADP and pyrophosphate but not by various nitrogen-containing metabolites that inhibit other GS enzymes. Activity was also inhibited by methionine sulfoximine, a transition state analog, but the concentration needed to inhibit GSIII was 50 to 100 times higher than that needed to inhibit GSI or GSII. GSIII had a Km for glutamate of 13.3 mM, for ammonium of 33 mM, and for hydroxylamine of 5.3 mM with a pH optimum of 6.8 and a temperature optimum of 50 degrees C. The purified protein had related subunits of 46.5 and 49 kDa and a native molecular mass of 355 kDa, indicating the native enzyme was an octamer. Polyclonal antibodies specific for GSIII reacted with a protein of similar molecular weight in Escherichia coli strains that carry R. meliloti glnT on a plasmid. GSIII activity was detected in some of these strains that contained glnT. Extracts of root nodules formed by WSU650 also react with the antibodies.
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