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Abstract
The main property of an Amt- (ammonium transport negative) mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae is its inability to accumulate NH4+ intracellularly. When growing on nitrogen sources other than NH4+, the mutant constantly looses NH3 by diffusion. This loss results in poor growth. The NH3 excretion suggests the existence of a futile cycle (NH3 loss/NH4+ reabsorption) in the wild type and possibly other bacterial strains, which do not constantly excrete NH3.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6393890 DOI: 10.1007/BF00402008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arch Microbiol ISSN: 0302-8933 Impact factor: 2.552