Regulation of uridylic acid biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis.
AUTOR(ES)
Currier, T C
RESUMO
The pathway of uridylic acid biosynthesis established by Leiberman, Kornberg, and Simms has been shown to be operative in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis. The only enzyme of uridylic acid biosynthesis found to be lacking in two uracil-requiring strains of A. variabilis was aspartate transcarbamylase, the first enzyme in the pathway of de novo biosynthesis of uridvlic acid. Neither uracil-limited growth of a uracil-requiring mutant nor growth of the wild type in high concentrations of uracil resulted in substantial changes in the specific activities of enzymes of uridylic acid biosynthesis. It is therefore concluded that A. variabilis does not regulate all enzymes of this pathway by means of repression. However, control of the flow of intermediates through this pathway is possible by feedback inhibition of aspartate transcarbamylase by a variety of nucleotides.
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