Excretion of alkaline phosphatase by Escherichia coli K-12 pho constitutive mutants transformed with plasmids carrying the alkaline phosphatase structural gene.

AUTOR(ES)

Lazzaroni, J C

RESUMO

Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase constitutive mutants carrying a pst or a phoS mutation and a plasmid-bearing gene phoA+ excreted into the growth medium up to 50% of the total alkaline phosphatase production. This excretion was pH dependent and did not involve drastic modifications of the cell envelope. Alkaline phosphatase accounted for 80% of total released proteins. Amplification of gene phoA+ was a necessary condition for excretion to occur. When the beta-lactamase structural gene bla+ was coamplified with gene phoA+, both enzymes were excreted. pst-transformed excretory strains did not show the pleiotrophic phenotype previously described for lky mutants.

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