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  • Title: Novel Escherichia coli K-12 mutants impaired in S-adenosylmethionine synthesis.
    Author: Satishchandran C, Taylor JC, Markham GD.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1990 Aug; 172(8):4489-96. PubMed ID: 2115868.
    Abstract:
    S-Adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) plays a myriad of roles in cellular metabolism. One of the many roles of AdoMet in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium is as a corepressor of genes encoding enzymes of methionine biosynthesis. To investigate the metabolic effects of large reductions in intracellular AdoMet concentrations in growing cells, we constructed and examined mutants of E. coli which are conditionally defective in AdoMet synthesis. Temperature-sensitive mutants in metK, the structural gene for the S-adenosylmethionine synthetase (AdoMet synthetase) expressed in minimal medium, were constructed by in vitro mutagenesis of a plasmid-borne copy of metK. By homologous recombination, the chromosomal copy was replaced with the mutated metK gene. Both heat- and cold-sensitive mutants were examined. At the nonpermissive temperature, two such mutants had 200-fold-reduced intracellular AdoMet levels and required either methionine or vitamin B12 for growth. In the presence of methionine or vitamin B12, the mutants grew at normal rates even though the AdoMet levels remained 0.5% of wild type. A third mutant when placed at nonpermissive temperature had less than 0.2% of the normal AdoMet level and did not grow on minimal medium even in the presence of methionine or vitamin B12. All of these mutants grew normally on yeast-extract-based medium in which an alternate form of S-adenosylmethionine synthetase was expressed.
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