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Query: EC:3.2.1.26 (
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The aim of this work was to investigate the occurrence of
invertase
(Inv) in cyanobacteria. We describe the first isolation and characterization of prokaryotic alkaline/neutral Inv (A/N-Inv) genes. Two genes (invA and invB) were identified in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120, which share about 50-56% identity with plant A/N-Inv and encode proteins of about 53-55 kDa. The identification of these proteins was confirmed by biochemical and immunological studies with recombinant proteins and with the enzymes isolated from Anabaena cells. Expression analysis supported the important role of A/N-Inv in
nitrogen
-fixing growth conditions. Nevertheless, A/N-Inv activities were shown in all filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria investigated, regardless of their capacity to fix dinitrogen. Searches in complete sequenced genomes showed that A/N-Inv homologues are restricted to cyanobacterial species and plants. In particular, filamentous
nitrogen
-fixing strains display two A/N-Inv genes and unicellular strains have only one. Phylogenetic analysis leads us to suggest that modern plant A/N-Inv might have originated from an orthologous ancestral gene after the endosymbiotic origin of chloroplasts.
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PMID:Cyanobacterial alkaline/neutral invertases. Origin of sucrose hydrolysis in the plant cytosol? 1268 62
Soil basal respiration potential, metabolic quotient (qCO2), and activities of urease,
invertase
and acid phosphomonoesterase were investigated in the root-layer of 10-, 40-, and 90-yr-old tea bushes grown on the same type of red soil. The soil daily basal respiration potential ranged from 36.23 to 58.52 mg.kg-1.d-1, and the potentials in the root-layer of 40- or 90-yr-old were greater than that of 10-yr old tea bushes. The daily qCO2, ranging from 0.30 to 0.68, was in the reverse trend. The activities of test three enzymes changed differently with tea bushes' age. Urease activity in the root-layer of all age tea bushes ranged from 41.48 to 47.72 mg.kg-1.h-1 and slightly decreased with tea bushes' age. Invertase activity was 189.29-363.40 mg.kg-1.h-1 and decreased with tea bushes' age, but its activity in the root-layer of 10-year old tea bushes was significantly greater than that in the root-layer soil of 40- or 90-year old tea bushes. Acid phosphomonoesterase activity (444.22-828.32 mg.kg-1.h-1) increased significantly with tea bushes' age. Soil basal respiration potential, qCO2 and activities of 3 soil enzymes were closely related to soil pH, soil organic carbon, total
nitrogen
and C/N ratio, total soluble phenol, and microbial biomass carbon, respectively.
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PMID:[Soil basal respiration and enzyme activities in the root-layer soil of tea bushes in a red soil]. 1282 66
Studies on the soil microbes, soil enzyme activity and soil biochemical intensity in copper mining wasteland indicated that the total quantity of major soil microbes declined by 68.43%-80.32%, compared with that of the non-minig soil. The proportion of bacteria and actinomyces decreased, while that of fungi did not changed obviously. The amount of major physiological groups including ammonifiers,
nitrogen
fixing bacteria, cellulose decomposing bacteria, aerobic
nitrogen
fixing bacteria and anaerobic
nitrogen
fixing bacteria all decreased, and soil basic respiration descended, compared with the control. The activity of soil enzymes weakened, which included urease,
sucrase
, proteinase, acid phosphtase, peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase and dehydrogenase. Soil biochemical intensity including ammonification, nitrification,
nitrogen
fixation and cellulose decomposition descended, and the circulation of C and N in mining soil inhibited. All the results showed that the weakening of microbial activity was one of major characteristics in reclaimed mining soil.
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PMID:[Microbial eco-characteristics of reclaimed mining wasteland in red soil area of southern China. I. Effects on soil microbial activity]. 1499 48
This study investigated if a controlled water deficit during grain filling of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) could accelerate grain filling by facilitating the remobilization of carbon reserves in the stem through regulating the enzymes involved in fructan and sucrose metabolism. Two high lodging-resistant wheat cultivars were grown in pots and treated with either a normal (NN) or high amount of
nitrogen
(HN) at heading time. Plants were either well-watered (WW) or water-stressed (WS) from 9 days post anthesis until maturity. Leaf water potentials markedly decreased at midday as a result of water stress but completely recovered by early morning. Photosynthetic rate and zeatin + zeatin riboside concentrations in the flag leaves declined faster in WS plants than in WW plants, and they decreased more slowly with HN than with NN when soil water potential was the same, indicating that the water deficit enhanced, whereas HN delayed, senescence. Water stress, both at NN and HN, facilitated the reduction in concentration of total nonstructural carbohydrates (NSC) and fructans in the stems but increased the sucrose level there, promoted the re-allocation of pre-fixed (14)C from the stems to grains, shortened the grain-filling period, and accelerated the grain-filling rate. Grain weight and grain yield were increased under the controlled water deficit when HN was applied. Fructan exohydrolase (FEH; EC 3.2.1.80) and sucrose phosphate synthase (SPS; EC 2.4.1.14) activities were substantially enhanced by water stress and positively correlated with the total NSC and fructan remobilization from the stems. Acid
invertase
(
EC 3.2.1.26
) activity was also enhanced by the water stress and associated with the change in fructan concentration, but not correlated with the total NSC remobilization and (14)C increase in the grains. Sucrose:sucrose fructosyltransferase (EC 2.4.1.99) activity was inhibited by the water stress and negatively correlated with the remobilization of carbon reserves. Sucrose synthase (EC 2.4.1.13) activity in the stems decreased sharply during grain filling and showed no significant difference between WW and WS treatments. Abscisic acid (ABA) concentration in the stem was remarkably enhanced by water stress and significantly correlated with SPS and FEH activities. Application of ABA to WW plants yielded similar results to those for WS plants. The results suggest that the increased remobilization of carbon reserves by water stress is attributable to the enhanced FEH and SPS activities in wheat stems, and that ABA plays a vital role in the regulation of the key enzymes involved in fructan and sucrose metabolism.
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PMID:Activities of fructan- and sucrose-metabolizing enzymes in wheat stems subjected to water stress during grain filling. 1529 Feb 95
One year-old second generation stand and 14 year- and 34 year-old first generation stands in larch plantations were studied at the Maoershan Mt. Experimental Forest Farm. The forestland of these three stands was treated with various fertilizations. The results showed that fertilization could promote or restrain soil enzyme activity and microbial amount with different degrees, and its effect on soil physiological activity was more apparent. The effect of the same fertilization treatments on soil enzyme activity and microbial amount was different at different development stages of the stands. For one year-old stand, the best fertilization scheme was treatment 9, its soil enzyme activities (catalase, proteinase, polyphenoloxidase, urease, and
saccharase
), total microbial amount, and amount of bacteria, actinomyces and fungus being increased by 413.49%, 22.10%, 20.56%, 220.00%, 49.46%, 238.88%, 247.24%, 106.70%, and 366.67%, respectively, as compared with the control. For 34 year-old stand, the best fertilization scheme was treatment 5, its soil enzyme activities (catalase, proteinase, polyphenoloxidase, urease, and
saccharase
), total microbial amount, and amount of bacteria and fungus was increased by 30.44%, 16.91%, 0.22%, 43.06%, 124.18%, 119.92%, 87.66%, and 17.57%, respectively in rhizosphere soil, and by 24.55%, 77.01%, 168.62%, 251.85%, 183.33%, 250.0%, 38.24% and 128.57%, respectively in non-rhizosphere soil. For 14 year-old young stand, it needed a proper amount of
nitrogen
fertilizer and organic mineral fertilizers, and the better fertilization schemes were treatments 2 and 9. The soil enzyme activities (catalase, proteinase, and urease) in treatment 2 was increased by 44.39%, 94.83%, and 4.62%, respectively in rhizosphere soil, and by 13.98%, 10.70% and 129.76%, respectively in non-rhizosphere soil. Total soil microbial amount and the amount of bacteria and fungus in treatment 9 was increased by 176.49%, 266.63%, and 198.04%, respectively in rhizosphere soil, and by 275.56%, 66.67% and 143.75%, respectively in non-rhizosphere soil.
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PMID:[Effect of fertilization on soil enzymes and microbes in Larix gemlinii plantations]. 1536 23
This paper studied the effect of 200 micromol x mol(-1) CO2 elevation on soil saccharidase activities and soil nutrient contents under rice-wheat rotation. The results showed that under both wheat and rice planting, CO2 elevation increased soil
invertase
activity. The elevated CO2 significantly increased soil xylanase activity at the jointing, heading and ripening stages of wheat and at the heading and ripening stages of rice, and slightly decreased soil cellulase activity. Correlation analysis showed that there was a significantly linear positive relationship between soil alkali-hydrolyzed
nitrogen
and soil
invertase
activity.
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PMID:[Response of soil saccharidase activities to free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) under rice-wheat rotation]. 1536 27
In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, sensing and signalling pathways regulate gene expression in response to quality of carbon and
nitrogen
sources. One such system, the target of rapamycin (Tor) proteins, senses nutrients and uses the GATA activators Gln3p and Nil1p to regulate translation in response to low-quality carbon and
nitrogen
. The signal transduction, triggered in response to
nitrogen
nutrition that is sensed by the Tor proteins, operates via a regulatory pathway involving the cytoplasmic factor Ure2p. When carbon and
nitrogen
are abundant, the phosphorylated Ure2p anchors the also phosphorylated Gln3p and Nil1p in the cytoplasm. Upon a shift from high- to low-quality
nitrogen
or treatment with rapamycin all three proteins are dephosphorylated, causing Gln3p and Nil1p to enter the nucleus and promote transcription. The genes that code for yeast periplasmic enzymes with nutritional roles would be obvious targets for regulation by the sensing and signalling pathways that respond to quality of carbon and
nitrogen
sources. Indeed, previous results from our laboratory had shown that the GATA factors Gln3p, Nil1p, Dal80p, Nil2p and also the protein Ure2 regulate the expression of asparaginase II, coded by ASP3. We also had observed that the activity levels of the also periplasmic
invertase
, coded by SUC2, were 6-fold lower in ure2 mutant cells in comparison to wild-type cells collected at stationary phase. These results suggested similarities between the signalling pathways regulating the expression of ASP3 and SUC2. In the present work we showed that
invertase
levels displayed by the single nil1 and gln3 and by the double gln3nil1 mutant cells, cultivated in a sucrose-ammonium medium and collected at the exponential phase, were 6-, 10- and 60-fold higher, respectively, in comparison to their wild-type counterparts. RT-PCR data of SUC2 expression in the double-mutant cells indicated a 10-fold increase in the mRNA(SUC2) levels.
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PMID:Gln3p and Nil1p regulation of invertase activity and SUC2 expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 1578 Jun 59
A gnotobiotic microcosm experiment was conducted to study the interactions between bacteria-feeding nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and bacterium Bacillus subtilis, and their effects on soil
nitrogen
mineralization at different Caenorhabditis elegans density. The results showed that the inoculation of the nematode stimulated the growth of the bacterium, and the increment was in order of 20>10>40 nematodes x g(-1) dried soil. The interaction between Caenorhabditis elegans and Bacillus subtilis significantly enhanced soil respiration rate and soil
invertase
, urease and phosphatase activities, with no significant differences among three test nematode densities. The inoculation of bacterial-feeding nematode markedly increased soil NH4+ -N and mineral N, suggesting that soil N mineralization was enhanced under the effect of the nematode. The increment of soil
nitrogen
mineralization at different nematode density was also in the same order mentioned above.
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PMID:[Effects of bacteria-feeding nematode at its different density on bacterial number, bacterial activity and soil nitrogen mineralization]. 1618 Jul 65
Correlation and cluster analyses on the enzyme activities and chemical-biological properties of eight red soils showed that soil urease,
invertase
, phosphatase and catalase activities correlated significantly with soil organic carbon, total
nitrogen
and total phosphorous. Similar results of soil fertility evaluation were obtained by using soil enzyme activities and by using soil chemical-biological properties, indicating that soil enzyme activity could be used as an index of evaluating red soil fertility. The enzyme activities of fresh soil were generally greater than those of air-dried sample, and more closely correlated with soil fertility.
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PMID:[Relationships between red soil enzyme activity and fertility]. 1626 58
Confirming an earlier report, it was shown that the endogenous inhibitor of potato tuber
invertase
forms an essentially undissociable complex with the enzyme. Consequently, several previous analyses of potato tuber
invertase
which were based on equations derived for highly dissociable enzyme-inhibitor complexes are presumed to be in serious error. The complex formation proceeded slowly, requiring approximately 1 day to reach completion at 2 C, and 1 hr at 37 C. Allowing complex formation to reach completion before assaying enzyme activity did not affect the noncompetitive nature of the inhibition.Contrary to previous reports that inhibitor could be selectively inactivated through foaming in a blender, both enzyme and inhibitor appeared to be denatured by such treatment. Foaming accomplished by passing
nitrogen
gas bubbles through extracts gave more favorable results.
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PMID:An examination of methods used to assay potato tuber invertase and its naturally occurring inhibitor. 1665 99
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