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. 1987 Apr;169(4):1753–1756. doi: 10.1128/jb.169.4.1753-1756.1987

Involvement of the phosphate regulon and the psiD locus in carbon-phosphorus lyase activity of Escherichia coli K-12.

L P Wackett, B L Wanner, C P Venditti, C T Walsh
PMCID: PMC212012  PMID: 3549702

Abstract

Escherichia coli K-12 can readily mutate to use methylphosphonic acid as the sole phosphorus source by a direct carbon-to-phosphorus (C-P) bond cleavage activity that releases methane and Pi. The in vivo C-P lyase activity is both physiologically and genetically regulated as a member of the phosphate regulon. Since psiD::lacZ(Mu d1) mutants cannot metabolize methylphosphonic acid, psiD may be the structural gene(s) for C-P lyase.

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