Cross-Feeding of Escherichia coli Mutants Defective in the Biosynthesis of Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide

AUTOR(ES)

Kerr, Thomas J.

RESUMO

Mutants of Escherichia coli defective in the biosynthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) are able to grow in a Casamino Acids medium lacking NAD and its immediate precursors, nicotinic acid and nicotinamide. This property has allowed the development of a system to measure cross-feeding between a nadA and a nadB mutant. This system provides a means of isolating the intermediate, prequinolinic acid, as well as a biological assay for the compound. The nadB mutant feeds the nadA mutant, indicating that the nadA enzyme occurs first in the pathway and the nadB enzyme second. No cross-feeding was detected between nadA and nadC or between nadB and nadC.

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