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. 1975 Oct;124(1):269–278. doi: 10.1128/jb.124.1.269-278.1975

Role of methionine in the regulation of serine hydroxymethyltransferase in Eschericia coli.

R C Greene, C Radovich
PMCID: PMC235892  PMID: 1100603

Abstract

Significant derepression of serine hydroxymethyltransferase is observed when metE or metF mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 are grown on D-methionine sulfoxide instead of L-methionine. The derepression is not prevented by addition of glycine, adenosine, guanosine, guanosine, and thymidine to the growth medium of methionine-limited metF cells showing that the effect is not due to a secondary deficiency of these nutrients. On the other hand, methionine-limited growth of a metA mutant leads to derepression of met regulon enzymes, but only a marginal increase in serine hydroxymethyltransferase activity. A prototrophic metJ strain grown on minimal medium has about the same serine hydroxymethyltransferase as the wild type. The enzyme activity of the metJ strain is not influenced by methionine, but it is partially repressed by glycine, adenosine, and thymidine. metK strains have about twice as much serine hydroxymethyltransferase activity as wild-type cells when grown on minimal medium; but when both types of cells are grown on medium supplemented with glycine, adenosine, guanosine, and thymidine, their enzyme activities are about the same. The results show that methionine limitation can lead to depression of serine hydroxymethyltransferase, but that the regulatory system is different from the one which controls the methionine regulon.

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