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Induction of Citrate Transport in Bacillus subtilis During the Absence of Phospholipid Synthesis

Department of Biochemical Sciences, Moffett Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Department of Microbiology, The Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, Inc., New York, New York 10016

ABSTRACT

Citrate transport can be induced in a glycerol-requiring mutant of Bacillus subtilis even after deprival of glycerol. Under these conditions de novo phospholipid synthesis is stopped although ribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid, and protein syntheses continue. It is concluded that the inducibility of bacterial transport systems must not necessarily require de novo phospholipid synthesis.