Brenchley J E, Magasanik B
J Bacteriol. 1974 Feb;117(2):544-50. doi: 10.1128/jb.117.2.544-550.1974.
A mutant of Klebsiella aerogenes lacking glutamate synthase activity (asm-200) is blocked in only one pathway of glutamate synthesis and can still use glutamate dehydrogenase to produce glutamate when ammonia in sufficient concentration, i.e., higher than 1 mM, is provided in the medium. However, a mutant that has neither glutamate synthase nor glutamate dehydrogenase activities (asm-200, gdhD1) requires glutamate. Transductants obtained by phage grown on wild-type cells of this double mutant, selected on medium containing less than 1 mM ammonia, regain glutamate synthase but not glutamate dehydrogenase. Surprisingly, these gdhD1 transductants grow as well in a variety of media as does a strain with glutamate dehydrogenase activity. Furthermore, transductions with these and other mutants indicate that the genes encoding glutamate synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glutamine synthetase, and citrate synthase are not closely linked.
产气克雷伯菌的一个缺乏谷氨酸合酶活性的突变体(asm - 200)仅在谷氨酸合成的一条途径中受阻,并且当培养基中提供足够浓度(即高于1 mM)的氨时,它仍可利用谷氨酸脱氢酶产生谷氨酸。然而,一个既没有谷氨酸合酶也没有谷氨酸脱氢酶活性的突变体(asm - 200,gdhD1)则需要谷氨酸。通过在这种双突变体的野生型细胞上生长的噬菌体获得的转导子,在含有低于1 mM氨的培养基上进行选择,恢复了谷氨酸合酶活性但未恢复谷氨酸脱氢酶活性。令人惊讶的是,这些gdhD1转导子在各种培养基中的生长情况与具有谷氨酸脱氢酶活性的菌株一样好。此外,用这些及其他突变体进行的转导表明,编码谷氨酸合酶、谷氨酸脱氢酶、谷氨酰胺合成酶和柠檬酸合酶的基因并非紧密连锁。