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Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola, which produces alginate during stationary growth phase, displayed elevated extracellular alginate lyase activity during both mid-exponential and late-stationary growth phases of batch growth. Intracellular activity remained below 22% of the total activity during exponential growth, suggesting that alginate lyase has an extracellular function for this organism. Extracellular enzyme activity in continuous cultures, grown in either nutrient broth or glucose–simple salts medium, peaked at 60% of the washout rate, although nutrient broth-grown cultures displayed more than twice the activity per gram of cell mass. These results imply that growth rate, nutritional composition, or both initiate a release of alginate lyase from viable P. syringae pv. phaseolicola, which could modify its entrapping biofilm.
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Received: 14 April 2000 / Accepted: 11 August 2000
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Ott, C., Day, D., Koenig, D. et al. The Release of Alginate Lyase from Growing Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola . Curr Microbiol 42, 78–81 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002840010182
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002840010182