Escherichia coli K-12 lysyl-tRNA synthetase mutant with a novel reversion pattern.

AUTOR(ES)

Hirshfield, I N

RESUMO

Fast-growing revertants have been selected from a slow-growing lysyl-tRNA synthetase mutant. All of the revertants had increased lysyl-tRNA synthetase activity compared with the mutant (5- to 85-fold), and in some revertants this amounted to two to three times the wild-type synthetase activity. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of a whole-cell extract of revertant IH2018 (1.5- to 2-fold wild-type synthetase activity) showed that the increase in synthetase activity is due to the induction of cryptic lysyl-tRNA synthetase forms and not to a change in the constitutive lysyl-tRNA synthetase. Genetic studies have shown that a locus termed rlu (for regulation of lysU ) which is cotransducible with purF at 49.5 min influences the amount of the cryptic lysyl-tRNA synthetase.

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