Abstract
Mutants with reduced lysine decarboxylase activity were isolated from an Escherichia coli polyamine auxotroph. These mutants could not produce induced enzyme, showing only a very low level of an apparently constitutive form. Both enzyme forms could be demonstrated in the parental strain.
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