Degradation of 2-phosphoglycerate by cytotoxin B of Clostridium difficile

Floyd Knoop; Robert Martig; Michaela Owens

doi:10.1016/0014-5793(90)80274-M

Degradation of 2-phosphoglycerate by cytotoxin B of Clostridium difficile

Floyd Knoop, Robert Martig, Michaela Owens

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

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Cytotoxin B of C. difficile was highly purified by selective ammonium sulfate precipitation, Biogel A5m chromatography, phenyl boronate hydrophobic interaction chromatography and ultracentrifugation. The final cytotoxic product had a specific activity of 7.8 × 10⁸ units mg protein and showed a single protein band with an estimated molecular weight of 163000 when subjected to SDS-PAGE. Immunoelectrophoresis of the final product showed a single precipitin arc. The addition of cytotoxin B to imidazole-HCl buffer (pH 7.4) containing MgSO₄, KCl and the substrate 2-phosphoglycerate resulted in the formation of phosphoenolpyruvate as demonstrated by spectrophotometric analysis. Phosphoglycerate conversion was absent when the cytotoxin was heat-inactivated of reacted with specific antitoxin prior to assay.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	9-12
Number of pages	4
Journal	FEBS Letters
Volume	267
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(90)80274-M
State	Published - Jul 2 1990

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