A pH-conditional mutant of Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Colb, M
RESUMO
Mutants of Escherichia coli have been isolated that are able to grow on lactose at pH 7.0 but not at pH 8.1. One of these mutants was analyzed and shown to map in the Z region of the lactose operon. beta-Galactosidase (beta-D-galactoside galactohydrolase; EC 3.2.1.23) activity in toluenized mutant cells at pH 8.0 was one-tenth that at pH 7.0. Enzyme purified to near homogeneity from the pH-conditional mutant similarly exhibited pH-conditional activity under conditions where wild-type enzyme was unaffected over a pH range of 6.0-8.0. The pH-conditional beta-galactosidase was used in vivo as a probe for intracellular pH. We show that an internal pH of approximately 7.8-8.0 is maintained through an external pH range of 5.9-7.8. The phenotype of pH-conditional mutants was defined on medium with lactose as the sole carbon source. Under such conditions the gene product itself, beta-galactosidase, is required to maintain intracellular pH, since such maintenance is clearly energy-dependent. Therefore, we were able to recover a pH-conditional mutant in a cytoplasmic gene product. We predict that with any phenotype independent of energy production, however, pH-sensitive mutants will be recovered only in surface elements.
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