Miyakawa T, Matsuzawa H, Matsuhashi M, Sugino Y
J Bacteriol. 1972 Nov;112(2):950-8. doi: 10.1128/jb.112.2.950-958.1972.
Temperature-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 which cannot form cell wall peptidoglycan at 42 C were isolated. The thermosensitive steps were characterized biochemically, and the genes coding the enzymes of peptidoglycan synthesis were mapped. These genes were in two clusters: one group, located at about 1.5 min between leu and azi, was designated as mra (murein a); the second group, located at about 77.5 min close to argH and metB, was designated as mrb (murein b, with the order metB-argH-mrb). No simple relations were found between the gene location and the order or localization of enzymes involved in the sequence of reactions of cell wall peptidoglycan biosynthesis.
分离出了大肠杆菌K - 12的温度敏感突变体,这些突变体在42℃时不能形成细胞壁肽聚糖。对温度敏感步骤进行了生化表征,并对编码肽聚糖合成酶的基因进行了定位。这些基因分为两个簇:一组位于亮氨酸(leu)和叠氮化物抗性基因(azi)之间约1.5分钟处,被命名为mra(胞壁质a);第二组位于靠近精氨酸琥珀酸合成酶基因(argH)和蛋氨酸合成酶基因(metB)约77.5分钟处,被命名为mrb(胞壁质b,顺序为metB - argH - mrb)。在细胞壁肽聚糖生物合成反应序列中涉及的酶的基因位置与顺序或定位之间未发现简单的关系。