Selection, mapping, and characterization of osmoregulatory mutants of Escherichia coli blocked in the choline-glycine betaine pathway.
AUTOR(ES)
Styrvold, O B
RESUMO
Osmotically stressed Escherichia coli cells synthesize the osmoprotectant glycine betaine by oxidation of choline through glycine betaine aldehyde (choline----glycine betaine aldehyde----glycine betaine; B. Landfald and A.R. Strøm, J. Bacteriol. 165:849-855, 1986. Mutants blocked at the level of choline dehydrogenase were isolated by selection of strains which did not grow at elevated osmotic strength in the presence of choline but grew when supplemented with glycine betaine. A gene governing the choline dehydrogenase activity was named betA. Mapping by P1 transduction, F' complementation, and deletion mutagenesis showed the betA gene to be located at 7.5 min in the argF-codAB region of the chromosome. Mutants carrying deletions of this region also lacked glycine betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase activity and high-affinity uptake activity for choline; these deletions did not influence the activities of glycine betaine uptake or low-affinity choline uptake, both of which were osmotically regulated.
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