Genetic characterization of the glutamate dehydrogenase gene (gdhA) of Salmonella typhimurium.
AUTOR(ES)
Rosenfeld, S A
RESUMO
Salmonella typhimurium mutants, either devoid or glutamate dehydrogenase activity or having a thermolabile glutamate dehydrogenase protein, were used to identify the structural gene (gdhA) for this enzyme. Transductions showed that the mutations producing these phenotypes were linked to both the pncA and nit genes, placing the gdhA locus between 23 and 30 U on the S. typhimurium chromosome. Additional transductions with several Tn10 insertions established the gene order as pncA-gdhA-nit. Since few genetic markers exist in this region of the chromosome, Hfr strains were constructed to orient the pncA-gdhA-nit cluster with outside genes. Conjugation experiments provided evidence for the gene order pyrD-pncA-gdhA-nit-trp. To further characterize gdhA, we used Mu cts d1 (Apr lac) insertions in this gene to select numerous strains containing deletions with various endpoints. Transductions of these deletions with strains containing different gdh mutations and with a mutant having a thermolabile glutamate dehydrogenase protein permitted us to construct a deletion map of the gdhA region.
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