Carbohydrate Transport by the Anaerobic Thermophile Clostridium thermocellum LQRI.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
H J StrobelK A Dawson

Abstract

Clostridium thermocellum is an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium which degrades cellulose and ferments the resulting glucose, cellobiose, and cellodextrins predominantly to ethanol. However, relatively little information was available on carbohydrate uptake by this bacterium. Washed cells internalized intact oligomers as large as cellopentaose. Since cellobiose and cellodextrin phosphorylase activities were detected in the cytosol and were not associated with cell membranes, phosphorylation of carbohydrates occurred intracellularly. Kinetic studies indicated that cellobiose and larger cellodextrins were taken up by a common uptake system while glucose entered via a separate mechanism. When cells were treated with metabolic inhibitors including iodoacetate and arsenate, the uptake of radiolabeled glucose or cellobiose was reduced by as much as 90%, and this reduction was associated with a 95% decline in intracellular ATP content. A combination of the ionophores nigericin and valinomycin abolished the proton-motive force but only slightly decreased transport and ATP. These results suggested that the two modes of carbohydrate transport in C. thermocellum were ATP dependent. This work is the first demonstration of cellodextrin trans...Continue Reading

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