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. 1981 Feb;145(2):752–759. doi: 10.1128/jb.145.2.752-759.1981

Comparative allostery of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthetase as an indicator of taxonomic relatedness in pseudomonad genera.

R J Whitaker, G S Byng, R L Gherna, R A Jensen
PMCID: PMC217175  PMID: 6109712

Abstract

Recently, an analysis of the enzymological patterning of L-tyrosine biosynthesis was shown to distinguish five taxonomic groupings among species currently named Pseudomonas, Xanthomonas, or Alcaligenes (Byng et al., J. Bacteriol. 144:247--257, 1980). These groupings paralleled with striking consistency those previously defined by ribosomal ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid homology relationships. The comparative allostery of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthetase has previously been shown to be a useful indicator of taxonomic relationship at about the level of genus. The comparative allostery of DAHP synthetase was evaluated in relationship to data available from the same pseudomonad species previously studied. Species of Xanthomonas and some named species of Pseudomonas, e.g., P. maltophilia, were unmistakably recognized as belonging to group V, having a DAHP synthetase sensitive to sequential feedback inhibition by chorismate. This control pattern is thus far unique to group V pseudomonads among microorganisms. Group V organisms were also unique in their possession of DAHP synthetase enzymes that were unstimulated by divalent cations. Group IV pseudomonads (P. diminuta) were readily distinguished by the retro-tryptophan pattern of control for DAHP synthetase. Activity for DAHP synthetase was not always recovered in group IV species, e.g., P. vesicularis. The remaining three groups exhibited overlapping patterns of DAHP synthetase sensitivity to both L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine. Individual species cannot be reliably keyed to group I. II, or III without other data. However, each group overall exhibited a different trend of relative sensitivity to L-tyrosine and L-phenylalanine. Thus, although enzymological patterning of L-tyrosine biosynthesis alone can be used to separate the five pseudomonad groups, the independent assay of DAHP synthetase control pattern can be used to confirm assignments. The latter approach is, in fact, the easiest and most definitive method for recognition of group V (and often of group IV) species.

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