Abstract
Addition of purines to the growth medium of Escherichia coli represses synthesis of cytosine deaminase (codA) and enzymes of purine de novo synthesis. After Tn10 mutagenesis, mutants displaying derepressed levels of cytosine deaminase in the presence of hypoxanthine were isolated. One of these had simultaneously acquired resistance to the hypoxanthine analog 6-mercaptopurine. The mutation purR6::Tn10 was shown to affect de novo synthesis of the purine enzymes glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase (purF) and phosphoribosyl glycinamide synthetase (purD). The mutation was mapped by P1 transduction at 36 min on the E. coli linkage map. A plasmid containing the purR region was obtained by complementation of the purR6::Tn10 mutation. By comparing the restriction maps of the cloned fragment and the E. coli chromosome, the purR gene was found to be located very close to the lpp gene (36.3 min).
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