A mutation affecting expression of the gene coding for serine transacetylase in Salmonella typhimurium
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 148 (2), 143-148
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00268378
Abstract
A 1,2,4-triazole resistant mutant of S. typhimurium has been isolated, in which serine transacetylase activity is seven times higher than in wild type. Partially purified serine transacetylase from a strain carrying the trz-312 mutation has kinetic properties which are virtually identical to those of the wild type enzyme and binds to O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase A to form a cysteine synthetase complex which is also indistinguishable from that found in wild type. Thus the increased activity of serine transacetylase associated with trz-312 appears to result from increased quantities of a kinetically normal, enzyme protein. Resistance to 1,2,4-triazole is probably due to the ability of trz-312 strains to synthesize O-acetyl-l-serine at a rapid enough rate to compensate for that utilized by the O-acetylserine triazolylase reaction. Genetic mapping experiments, using P1-mediated transduction, show that trz-312 is 91–99% linked to cysE, the structural gene for serine transacetylase. The results of three point crosses indicate that this mutation is located at one extreme end of the cysE locus, as would be expected for a promotor mutation.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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