Derepression of Phosphomannose Isomerase by Regulator Gene Mutations Involved in Capsular Polysaccharide Synthesis in Escherichia coli K-12

AUTOR(ES)

Markovitz, Alvin

RESUMO

A regulator gene mutation (capR) that causes increased synthesis of capsular polysaccharide and derepressed synthesis of several enzymes involved in polysaccharide synthesis also derepresses phosphomannose isomerase (PMI) synthesis. In contrast, a second mutation (capS, which maps separately from capR) that causes increased production of the same polysaccharide does not lead to increased synthesis of PMI (nor of several of the other enzymes involved in polysaccharide synthesis). Introduction of the capR9 allele by transduction or mutation of capR+ to capR can change the phenotype of a mannose-negative nonmucoid strain to a mannose-positive mucoid phenotype. Thus, genotype capR+man-2 is mannose-negative and nonmucoid, but genotype capR9 man-2 is mannose positive and mucoid. Other interactions between these alleles in the synthesis of capsular polysaccharide are recorded.

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