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Relations of enzymes inAspergillus repens grown under sodium chloride stress

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Aspergillus repens, a salt-pan isolate, was halotolerant. When grown for 72 h (log phase) and 144 h (beginning of stationary phase) in a medium containing 2m sodium chloride, the activities of invertase, malate dehydrogenase (MDH), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), and glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) were found to have increased. Control cultures grown in a medium devoid of 2m NaCl failed to show such changes. The activities of MDH, G6PDH, and GDH increased with rising concentrations of Na+ (as NaCl) when added up to 100mm in vitro. At higher concentrations they decreased. Changes in kinetic constants, Km and Vmax of these enzymes, as well as their de novo synthesis, were found to be some of the responses to NaCl stress-mediated changes.

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Kelavkar, U.P., Chhatpar, H.S. Relations of enzymes inAspergillus repens grown under sodium chloride stress. Current Microbiology 27, 157–162 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01576014

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