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Abstract
E. coli wild type bacteria display sensitivity towards serine. A selection medium is described which allows selection of serine resistant mutants. One such mutant is described which presents pleiotropic alterations: it exhibits a thermosensitive growth pattern, alteration in the metabolism of the pppGpp and ppGpp nucleotides, cAMP intracellular level alteration, extreme sensitivity to 2-ketobutyric acid and a defect in the phosphotransferases permeation system. A conjecture explaining these apparently unrelated defects supposes that serine metabolism interferes via phosphoenol pyruvate with a cytoplasmic control of membrane activity (the mutant would be defective in the coupling between membrane and the protein responsible for its cytoplasmic control) and that 2-ketobutyrate is an effector of this activity.Entities:
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Year: 1980 PMID: 6247616 DOI: 10.1007/bf00267224
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Gen Genet ISSN: 0026-8925