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J Bacteriol. 1978 June; 134(3): 1046-1055

Mutations that alter the covalent modification of glutamine synthetase in Salmonella typhimurium.

ABSTRACT

glnD and glnE mutant strains of Salmonella typhimurium lack three of the four activities required for reversible covalent modification of glutamine synthetase (GS; EC 6.3.1.2). The glnD strains, which are unable to deadenylylate GS and therefore accumulate the adenylylated or less active form of the enzyme, were isolated as glutamine bradytrophs. They lack the activity of PIIA uridylyl-transferase, one of the proteins required for deadenylylation of GS; in addition, they lack PIID uridylyl-removing activity. Mutations in glnD are suppressed by second-site mutations in glnE that eliminate the activity of GS adenylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.42) and thus prevent adenylylation of GS. The glnD and glnE strains have one-third to one-half as much total GS as the wild-type strain when they are grown in a medium containing a high concentration of NH4+. The wild-type strain derepresses synthesis of GS fourfold in response to nitrogen limitation; glnD and glnE strains derepress synthesis of the enzyme fourfold and sevenfold, respectively. Thus, mutations that alter covalent modification of GS in Salmonella do not significantly affect derepression of its synthesis. The glnD gene lies at 7 min on the Salmonella chromosome and is 50% linked to pyrH by P22-mediated transduction.

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