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The activity of Bordetella pertussis extracytoplasmic adenylate cyclase is 100-fold higher in organisms grown on blood agar than in those grown in synthetic medium. This increase in activity is due to in vivo activation of the enzyme by a factor present in erythrocytes. Activation also occurs in killed or disrupted organisms. The activator can be separated from heme proteins and has been purified approximately 100-fold from erythrocytes, yielding material of approximately 105,000 daltons. It is sensitive to trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin and exhibits considerable heat stability. Activation of cyclase in intact B. pertussis organisms exhibits a lag of 3 to 4 min and is not reversed by washing. Response to the activator decreases with increasing purification of the adenylate cyclase and is absent in the pure enzyme. The activation does not appear to be proteolytic and does not appear to change access to the substrate, ATP. The activator has no effect on a number of eukaryotic cyclases. We conclude that this is a new type of activation and that the activator differs from all those previously described.
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