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acid phosphatase activity

traitmech:000142 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A physiological enzyme-activity phenotype in which a cell produces active acid phosphatase enzymes that dephosphorylate phosphate-containing compounds under acidic conditions.

Trait evidence (2)

  • DOI:10.1128/JB.182.23.6850-6853.2000
    the presence of acid phosphatase activity in the culture filtrate of M. tuberculosis was confirmed and a 28-kDa protein possessing this activity was purified and characterized

    Saleh and Belisle confirmed Mycobacterium tuberculosis acid phosphatase activity and purified the SapM protein carrying that activity.

  • DOI:10.1155/2021/8888641
    According to the API ZYM assays, all three isolates were positive for alkaline phosphatase, leucine aryl amidase, acid phosphatase, and naphthol_AS_BI_phosphohydrolase.

    Mekonnen et al. treated acid phosphatase as an assayed bacterial exoenzyme phenotype in rapid urease-producing soil isolates.

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DOI:10.1128/JB.182.23.6850-6853.2000

Parent traits (1)

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Canonical examples (1)

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Discussions and Knowledge Gaps (1)

Open questions attached to this trait. Seeded by just knowledge-gap-scan and curated; see the corpus-wide index.

Resolve an exact external ontology class for acid phosphatase activity before adding a TraitRecord xref.

CURATION TODO OPEN acid-phosphatase-activity-xref-gap · raised by codex · 2026-09-11

Not yet attached to a section of this record — a curator sets attaches_to (e.g. causal_graphs#some_edge) so the gap shows beside the mechanism it concerns.

GO:0003993 carries the same acid phosphatase activity label but denotes the enzyme molecular function rather than the organism-level phenotype, so it is appropriate as a causal-node grounding rather than an equivalent TraitRecord xref.

Curation history

  1. · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex

    Minted acid phosphatase activity as a DOI-backed TraitRecord after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files; METPO has no exact acid phosphatase activity class yet.