Hughes K T, Ladika D, Roth J R, Olivera B M
J Bacteriol. 1983 Jul;155(1):213-21. doi: 10.1128/jb.155.1.213-221.1983.
We have located the nadD locus between lip and leuS at 14 min on the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome, and we have shown it to be the structural gene for nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenylyltransferase. This is the first indispensable gene of pyridine nucleotide metabolism that has been identified. Mutants altered at this locus, isolated by their 6-aminonicotinamide resistance phenotype, accumulate abnormally large pools of nicotinic acid mononucleotide in vivo; many exhibit a temperature-sensitive lethal phenotype. Enzyme assays reveal markedly lower transferase activity in mutant extracts than in nadD+ extracts. The partial dominance of nadD mutants when placed in a nadD+/nadD diploid suggests that nicotinic acid mononucleotide adenylyltransferase is a multimeric enzyme.
我们已将鼠伤寒沙门氏菌染色体上位于lip和leuS之间、14分钟处的nadD基因座定位出来,并证明它是烟酰胺单核苷酸腺苷酸转移酶的结构基因。这是已鉴定出的吡啶核苷酸代谢中第一个不可或缺的基因。通过其对6-氨基烟酰胺的抗性表型分离出的该基因座发生改变的突变体,在体内积累了异常大量的烟酰胺单核苷酸池;许多突变体表现出温度敏感致死表型。酶活性测定显示,突变体提取物中的转移酶活性明显低于nadD+提取物中的活性。将nadD突变体置于nadD+/nadD二倍体中时其部分显性表明烟酰胺单核苷酸腺苷酸转移酶是一种多聚体酶。