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J Bacteriol. 1975 May; 122(2): 418-424

Multiple forms of 7-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in selected strains of Bacteroides fragilis.

ABSTRACT

Multiple forms of 7-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase were detected in six of nine strains of Bacteroides fragilis. The enzymes differed with respect to pyridine nucleotide specificity, thermal stability, divalent metal cation requirement, and elution profilies from Sephadex G-200 columns. The nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP)-dependent enzyme required divalent metal cations, preferentially Mn-2+ (Km, 57 muM), for maximum catalytic activity. The NADP-dependent enzyme was labile at 65 C for 10 min, whereas the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent enzyme was stable at 65 C for 10 min. The specific activity of both the NAD- and NADP-dependent enzymes in crude extracts increased markedly (15- and 7.5-fold, respectively) during the transition from exponential- to stationary-phase growth in glucose medium containing 0.5 mM sodium cholate. The time course of apparent enzyme induction correlated temporally with the transformation of the 7-alpha-hydroxy group of cholate in the culture supernatant fluid. Both NAD- and NADP-dependent 7-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activities were found to be widely, but not universally, distributed in different strains and subspecies of B. fragilis. No NAD- or NADP-dependent 7-alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be detected in B. fragilis subsp. vulgatus Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) no. 4245, subsp. thetaiotaomicron VPI 0061-1, or subsp. distasonis VPI 4243.

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