Cloning and characterization of gdhA, the structural gene for glutamate dehydrogenase of Salmonella typhimurium.

AUTOR(ES)

Miller, E S

RESUMO

Glutamic acid is synthesized in enteric bacteria by either glutamate dehydrogenase or by the coupled activities of glutamate synthase and glutamine synthetase. A hybrid plasmid containing a fragment of the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome cloned into pBR328 restores growth of glutamate auxotrophs of S. typhimurium and Escherichia coli strains which have mutations in the genes for glutamate dehydrogenase and glutamate synthase. A 2.2-kilobase pair region was shown by complementation analysis, enzyme activity measurements, and the maxicell protein synthesizing system to carry the entire glutamate dehydrogenase structural gene, gdhA. Glutamate dehydrogenase encoded by gdhA carried on recombinant plasmids was elevated 5- to over 100-fold in S. typhimurium or E. coli cells and was regulated in both organisms. The gdhA promoter was located by recombination studies and by the in vitro fusion to, and activation of, a promoter-deficient galK gene. Additionally, S. typhimurium gdhA DNA was shown to hybridize to single restriction fragments of chromosomes from other enteric bacteria and from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

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