Abstract
Vender, Joyce (Indiana University, Bloomington), Kunthala Jayaraman, and H. V. Rickenberg. Metabolism of glutamic acid in a mutant of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 90:1304–1307. 1965.—A mutant strain of Escherichia coli W1485 was selected for its ability to utilize glutamic acid as the sole source of carbon. Growth of the mutant on glutamic acid led to the repression of glutamic acid dehydrogenase formation. The mutant differed from the wild-type strain in that glutamic decarboxylase activity was absent from the mutant under conditions of growth which supported the formation of this enzyme in the parent strain. Evidence is presented which suggests that loss of the decarboxylase activity results in the acquisition of the ability to utilize glutamic acid as sole source of carbon; a pathway of glutamate utilization via transamination is proposed.
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