p-Cymene pathway in Pseudomonas putida: selective enrichment of defective mutants by using halogenated substrate analogs.
AUTOR(ES)
Wigmore, G J
RESUMO
Several classes of mutants of Pseudomonas putida (JT810) defective in the utilization of p-cymene as sole carbon source have been isolated. Selective enrichment of the mutants and for strains putatively cured of a degradative plasmid was achieved by incubation of cells in minimal growth media containing p-cymene (or p-cumate) and various halogenated analogs of the growth substrates or pathway intermediates. Analogs which led to successful enrichments included: p-chlorotoluene, p-bromotoluene, alpha-chloro-p-xylene, and p-iodobenzoate. A mutant strain, PpJT811, constitutive for the p-cymene pathway gave significantly greater enrichments of defective mutants than the wild-type parent PpJT810 after incubation with the halogenated analogs. It is suggested that the defective mutants are enriched because of the genetic alterations they possess, which confer immunity to a lethal synthesis performed by transformation of the analogs in clones possessing an intact p-cymene pathway. A nomenclature for the genetic organization of p-cymene pathway is described.
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