Polymethylpolysaccharide synthesis in an ethionine-resistant mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis.
AUTOR(ES)
Maloney, D H
RESUMO
Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis were selected for resistance to ethionine in an effort to obtain methylation-defective strains that were altered in their ability to make methylmannose polysaccharides (MMP) or methylglucose lipopolysaccharides. Two methods were developed for the detection of MMP in cell extracts to aid in the screening for potential mutants, one a qualitative procedure based on iodine binding by the sample after paper chromatography and the other a quantitative procedure based on fluorimetric titration of the MMP with parinaric acid. An ethionine-resistant mutant was obtained that contained only about 25% of the normal level of S-adenosylmethionine and 10% of the normal level of methionine adenosyltransferase (adenosine 5'-triphosphate:L-methionine S-adenosyltransferase, EC 2.5.1.6) activity. When grown in the presence of 0.1% ethionine, the mutant cells contained about 50% of the wild-type levels of methylglucose lipopolysaccharides but only about 7% of the normal level of MMP (wild-type cells contain about 0.14 mM MMP and the mutant contains about 0.01 mM MMP). The amount of fatty acid synthesis in the ethionine-resistant mutant grown in the presence of ethionine was not dramatically altered although the mutant accumulated more short-chain and less long-chain unsaturated fatty acids than the wild-type cells.
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