Dependence of diaminopurine utilization on the mutational site of purine auxotrophy in Bacillus subtilis. 1. Nutritional experiments.

Abstract:

:An attempt was made to explain the puzzling observation that in bacteria 2,6-diaminopurine can replace guanine for guanineless mutants and for xanthineless mutants (both of which can make adenosine monophosphate de novo) but not for nonexacting purine auxotrophs (which cannot make adenosine monophosphate de novo). The analogue failed to inhibit the growth of nonexacting purineless Bacillus subtilis MB-1356 growing on guanine. In fact, growth was somewhat stimulated. This eliminated a possible solution involving the inhibition of guanosine monophosphate reductase by a diaminopurine derivative. Sparing of guanine by diaminopurine was matched by an even greater sparing of adenine. Addition of a small amount of adenine to MB-1356 failed to allow unrestricted growth on diaminopurine, thus eliminating a possible solution requiring an adenine derivative for the initial deamination of diaminopurine to guanine. The same degree of sparing of adenine by diaminopurine was observed whether both purines were added together or whether the adenine was added 1 hr after diaminopurine. This eliminated the possibility that diaminopurine was wasted by a "dead-end" conversion in the absence of adenine. Consideration of these nutritional data led to the development of two additional explanations, which are examined by tracer methodology in the following paper.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Demain AL,Shigeura HT

doi

10.1128/JB.95.2.565-571.1968

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1968-02-01 00:00:00

pages

565-71

issue

2

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

95

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