Current Microbiology, Vol.27, No.3, 157-162, 1993
RELATIONS OF ENZYMES IN ASPERGILLUS-REPENS GROWN UNDER SODIUM-CHLORIDE STRESS
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 2 M 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 2 M 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 100 mm 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.