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Aerobic and anaerobic alcohol dehydrogenases in Escherichia coli (1984)

Wong, Po-keung ; Barrett, Ericka L.

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

FEMS microbiology letters 22 (1984), S. 0

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ISSN: 1574-6968

Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Topics: Biology

Notes: Abstract Mutants unable to use ethanol for carbon and energy were counterselected from an ethanolutilizing mutant of Escherichia coli K12 derepressed for alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). Mutants of one class were devoid of ADH activity under anaerobic conditions but exhibited aerobic activities comparable to those of wild-type E. coli. Mutants of a second class exhibited ADH activity levels intermediate between those of the wild-type and derepressed parent. Immunological studies showed that mutants of the former class synthesized far less ADH protein than did the derepressed parent while mutants of the latter class synthesized about the same amount. The ADH mutations in both classes were located within the previously described adh region which contains the structural gene for the activity that is derepressed in the parent. An Eth−adh-lac fusion mutant with an insertion in the structural gene was also isolated and characterized. It exhibited no ADH activity under anaerobic conditions and wild-type levels under aerobic conditions. These data are consistent with the existence in E. coli of distinct aerobic and anaerobic ADH enzymes and a derepression of the anaerobic but not the aerobic enzyme in the ethanol utilizing strain.

Type of Medium: Electronic Resource

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1984.tb00713.x

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