Glucokinase-deficient mutant of Penicillium chrysogenum is derepressed in glucose catabolite regulation of both beta-galactosidase and penicillin biosynthesis.
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Barredo, J L
RESUMO
One glucokinase-deficient mutant (glk1) of Penicillium chrysogenum AS-P-78 was isolated after germ tube-emitting spores were mutated with nitrosoguanidine and selected for growth on lactose-containing medium in the presence of inhibitory concentrations of D-2-deoxyglucose (3 mM). Penicillin biosynthesis was greatly reduced (55%) in D-glucose-grown cultures of the parental strain, but this sugar had no repressive effect on the rate of penicillin biosynthesis in the mutant glk1. This mutant was deficient in ATP-dependent glucokinase and showed a greatly reduced uptake of D-glucose. The parental strain P. chrysogenum AS-P-78 showed in vitro ATP-dependent phosphorylating activities of D-glucose, D-2-deoxyglucose, and D-galactose. The glk1 mutant was deficient in the in vitro phosphorylation of D-glucose and D-2-deoxyglucose but retained a normal D-galactose-phosphorylating activity. D-Glucose repressed both beta-galactosidase and isopenicillin-N-synthase but not acyl coenzyme A:6-aminopenicillanic acid acyltransferase in the parental strain. The glucokinase-deficient mutant was simultaneously derepressed in carbon catabolite regulation of beta-galactosidase and isopenicillin-N-synthase, suggesting that a common regulatory mechanism is involved in carbon catabolite regulation of both sugar utilization and penicillin biosynthesis.
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