| Literature DB >> 17307844 |
Digby F Warner1, Suzana Savvi, Valerie Mizrahi, Stephanie S Dawes.
Abstract
We observed vitamin B(12)-mediated growth inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain CDC1551. The B(12) sensitivity was mapped to a polymorphism in metH, encoding a coenzyme B(12)-dependent methionine synthase. Vitamin B(12)-resistant suppressor mutants of CDC1551 containing mutations in a B(12) riboswitch upstream of the metE gene, which encodes a B(12)-independent methionine synthase, were isolated. Expression analysis confirmed that the B(12) riboswitch is a transcriptional regulator of metE in M. tuberculosis.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17307844 PMCID: PMC1855906 DOI: 10.1128/JB.00040-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490