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Original Article

An Escherichia coli Mutant Conditionally Altered in Respiratory Chain Components

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Pages 47-60 | Received 12 Jan 1990, Accepted 30 May 1990, Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis was employed to isolate an Escherichia coli mutant conditionally altered in respiratory chain components. Mutant R25 was able to grow on glucose, fructose, and glycerol but failed to grow on succinate and acetate (suc-). Also, R25 exhibited leaky growth on DL-lactate, fumarate, and malate (lct*). The lct* mutation pleiotropically affected a number of respiratory chain components and its expression was conditional with the growth substrate. Glucose-grown R25 resting cell suspensions oxidized DL-lactate and formate; however, these two substrates were not oxidized by fructose- or glycerol-grown cell suspensions. The same conditional pattern was observed for the concentration of cytochrome components, the membrane-associated oxidation of NADH and formate, and formate phenazine methosulfate (PMS) reductase activity; succinate oxidase and PMS reductase activities were not exhibited by membranes under any growth condition due to the suc- mutation. R25 membrane-associated H +-translocating ATPase activity was not conditional with the growth substrate. R25PC, a spontaneous lct* suc- partial revertant of R25, did not exhibit the conditional pattern of R25. The lct* mutation was found to map in the 27–30-min region and the suc- mutation in the 15–17-min region of the E. coli genome. Two distinct classes of R25 P1kc transductants were isolated that differed in both their growth response on succinate and DL-lactate and their oxidase activities

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