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  • Title: Control of vitamin B 6 biosynthesis in Escherichia coli.
    Author: Dempsey WB.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1971 Oct; 108(1):415-21. PubMed ID: 4941564.
    Abstract:
    Pyridoxineless mutants of Escherichia coli B which specifically require pyridoxal or pyridoxamine for growth can be divided into classes according to their growth responses in enriched media. Members of the slowest growing class synthesize vitamin B(6) at the fastest rates when starved for pyridoxal in glycerol minimal medium. After 80 min of synthesis at 4 x 10(-10) moles of vitamin B(6) per mg of cells per hr, the rate increases four- to fivefold and continues at the new rate for several hours. The shift to the new rate is prevented by chloramphenicol, thus suggesting that a derepression mechanism exists to control vitamin B(6) synthesis in addition to the previously discovered feedback control.
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