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Physiological roles of catalases Cat1 and Cat2 in Myxococcus xanthus
Kimura Yoshio , Yuri Yoshioka , Kie Toshikuni
Journal of Microbiology 2022;60(12):1168-1177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-022-2277-7
Published online: October 24, 2022
Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa 761-0795, Japan
Corresponding author:  Kimura Yoshio , Tel: +81-87-891-3118, 
Received: 16 June 2022   • Revised: 21 September 2022   • Accepted: 27 September 2022
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Abstract

Catalases are key antioxidant enzymes in aerobic organisms. Myxococcus xanthus expresses two monofunctional catalases, small-subunit Cat1 and large-subunit Cat2. The Km of H2O2 for recombinant Cat1 and Cat2 were 14.0 and 9.0 mM, respectively, and the catalytic efficiency of Cat2 (kcat/Km = 500 sec-1 mM-1) was 4-fold higher than that of Cat1. The activity ratio of Cat1 to Cat2 in the exponential growth phase of M. xanthus was 1 to 3–4. A Cat1-deficient strain was constructed, whereas a Cat2-deficient strain could not be produced. In H2O2-supplemented medium, the cat1 mutant exhibited marked growth retardation and a longer generation time than the wild-type (wt) strain. After 2 h of incubation in 0.5 mM H2O2-supplemented medium, the catalase activity of the wt strain significantly increased (by 64-fold), but that of the cat1 mutant strain did not. Under starvation-induced developmental conditions, catalase activity was induced by approximately 200-fold in both wt and cat1 strains, although in the mutant the activity increase as well as spore formation occurred one day later, indicating that the induction of catalase activity during starvation was due to Cat2. In wt starved cells, catalase activity was not induced by H2O2. These results suggest that Cat2 is the primary housekeeping catalase during M. xanthus growth and starvation-induced development, whereas Cat1 may have a complementary role, being responsible for the rapid degradation of H2O2 in proliferating vegetative cells subjected to oxidative stress.

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    Physiological roles of catalases Cat1 and Cat2 in Myxococcus xanthus
    J. Microbiol. 2022;60(12):1168-1177.   Published online October 24, 2022
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-022-2277-7
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