pH-Conditional, Ammonia Assimilation-Deficient Mutants of Hydrogenomonas eutropha: Isolation and Growth Characteristics1
AUTOR(ES)
Strenkoski, Leon F.
RESUMO
Two mutants of the facultative autotroph Hydrogenomonas eutropha were isolated by using a modified penicillin selection method. The mutation involved was unusual in that its effect on cellular growth was conditional with regard to extracellular pH and the type of substrate employed. Growth of both mutants was abnormal under autotrophic conditions and during heterotrophic cultivation in the presence of organic substrates which lacked an amino group. Abnormal growth was characterized by linear growth rates which were low at pH 6.0 and moderate at pH 7.2. In contrast, growth of the mutants was normal on most amino acids. Those substrates yielding abnormal growth were oxidized at normal rates by the mutants, indicating the mutation did not impair their uptake or metabolism. The data suggest that the mutants are defective in their ability to assimilate inorganic nitrogen into organic forms, and this defect is strongly influenced by pH.
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