Geckil, HGencer, SUckun, M2024-08-042024-08-0420040141-02291879-0909https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enzmictec.2004.04.005https://hdl.handle.net/11616/94247The production of antileukemic enzyme L-asparaginase in two distinctly related bacteria, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and in their recombinants expressing the Vitresocilla hemoglobin (VHb) has been studied. Both bacteria showed a substantially different degree of carbon catabolite repression of the enzyme production. E. aerogenes grown under catabolite repression had more than 20-fold lower L-asparaginase activity than the controls. This figure was only 1.6-fold for P. aeruginosa. In the medium with restricted nutrient content, however, the inhibitory effect of glucose on the enzyme production was less pronounced. The presence of VHb, an efficient oxygen uptake system, had also different effects in both bacteria. Under conditions of no catabolite repression, this protein caused about 7-fold lower L-asparaginase activity in E. aerogenes, but similar or even slightly stimulatory effect in P aeruginosa. The use of a relatively poor carbon source, mannitol, caused a lower L-asparaginase level and no glucose type catabolite repression. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessVitreoscilla hemoglobinbacterial hemoglobinL-asparaginasechemotherapeutic enzymescatabolite repressionoxygen-regulated genesArticle352-318218910.1016/j.enzmictec.2004.04.0052-s2.0-3142636524Q2WOS:000223032200011Q2