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  • Title: [Thymine- and thymidine-dependence of Yersinia pestis mutants with altered thymidylate synthetase].
    Author: Mishan'kan BN, Kravchenko AN, Maĭskiĭ VG.
    Journal: Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol; 1989 Feb; (2):24-9. PubMed ID: 2728696.
    Abstract:
    Thymine- and thymidine-dependent mutants of Y. pestis strain EV-76 have been isolated and characterized. Obtaining Y. pestis thymine-dependent mutants in trimethoprim-containing media with full nutritional value in the presence of thymine and thymidine and the capacity of natural strains from the foci of infection in Transcaucasia and Mongolia to grow in such media indicate that Y. pestis has gene tpp controlling thymidine phosphorylase, but this enzyme is strongly suppressed under normal conditions. The capacity for its suppression under definite conditions and the degree of the activation of thymidine phosphorylase determine the realization of Thy and Thyd phenotypes in Y. pestis mutants under study, though both types of these mutants have a mutation damage of gene thy A coding the synthesis of thymidylate synthetase.
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