Mu-induced polarity in the Escherichia coli K-12 ent gene cluster: evidence for a gene (entG) involved in the biosynthesis of enterochelin.

AUTOR(ES)

Woodrow, G C

RESUMO

A strain of Escherichia coli K-12 has been isolated that carries a Mu bacteriophage-induced mutation in the ent gene cluster. Nutritional tests together with examination of the compounds accumulated by the mutant strain indicated that the mutant was blocked both in the synthesis of 2,3-dihydroxy-benzoate and its subsequent conversion into enterochelin. Enzymic complementation assays of the mutant with several mutants each affected in one of the ent genes showed that the Mu-induced mutant was entA-, entB-, entC+, entD+, entE+, and entF+. Since the mutant produced the entD, entE, and entF gene products but was unable to produce enterochelin from 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate, it must therefore be affected in an additional protein concerned with this conversion. It is therefore postulated that the Mu-induced mutation affects a previously unrecognized gene, entG. Genetic experiments indicate that the mutation in strain AN462 which affects the three ent genes is the result of a single insertion of Mu in the ent gene cluster. This polarity mutant therefore provides evidence that three of the ent genes are part of an operon.

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