Table 2.

Growth of C. glutamicum mutant strains on different inorganic sulphur sources on solid minimal medium

	deleted	growtha after 48 h on MMS with addition of 2 mM of
strain	CDS (gene)	sulphate	sulphite	thiosulphate	sulphide	L-cysteine
WT	/	+	+	+	+	+
CR018	cg3112 (cysZ )	-	-	+	+	+
CR019	cg3113 (cysY )	-	-	-	°	+
CR020	cg3114 (cysN )	-	-	°	+	+
CR021	cg3115 (cysD )	-	-	°	+	+
CR022	cg3116 (cysH )	-	-	°	+	+
CR023	cg3117 (cysX )	°	°	°	+	+
CR024	cg3118 (cysI )	-	-	-	°	+
CR025	cg3119 (fpr2 )	+	+	+	+	+

^a compared to the wild-type grown on MMS containing sulphate:

+ denotes wild-type like growth

° indicates a severely reduced growth rate

- represents a complete lack of growth