Isoleucine Auxotrophy Due to Feedback Hypersensitivity of Biosynthetic Threonine Deaminase

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Springer, W.

RESUMO

Isoleucine-deficient mutants of Salmonella typhimurium were isolated. Three groups of mutants can be discerned by their nutritional requirements and enzyme patterns. (i) Mutants which grow with isoleucine alone are devoid of biosynthetic threonine deaminase (TD). (ii) Mutants growing with isoleucine and valine are devoid of transaminase B. (iii) Mutants growing with either isoleucine or threonine have normal levels of TD. However, the sensitivity of this enzyme to feedback inhibition by isoleucine is greatly enhanced. The inhibitory effect of isoleucine can be counterbalanced by high concentrations of threonine. These results indicate that the production of isoleucine in the mutants is restricted to a low level not sufficient to support the growth of the cells. This hypothesis is confirmed by studies with revertants of an isoleucine-threonine mutant. In nine revertants, wild-type properties of TD have been restored. In four revertants, the hypersensitivity of TD is unchanged, but the strains produce a greatly enhanced quantity of threonine, which is excreted into the culture medium. It follows, that hypersensitivity of TD to inhibition by isoleucine is the cause of the nutritional requirement of isoleucine-threonine mutants.

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