The thiJ locus and its relation to phosphorylation of hydroxymethyl pyrimidine in Escherichia coli

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2969-2974

  Mizote, Tomoko ^a   Tsuda, Masataka ^b   Nakazawa, Teruko ^b   Nakayama, Hideo ^a,c  

^a YAMAGUCHI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Sea Side Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Hydroxymethylpyrimidine; Thiamin biosynthesis; thiJ locus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PYRIDOXAL KINASE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0029853817     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-10-2969     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Adelberg, E. A., Mandel, M. & Chen, G. C. (1965). Optimal conditions for mutagenesis by N-methyl-Ń-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine in Escherichia coli K-12. Biophys Biochem Res Commun 18, 788-795.
2. Bachmann, B. J. (1983). Linkage map of Escherichia coli K-12, 7th edn. Bacteriol Rev 47, 180-230.
3. Henderson, H. M. (1965). The conversion of pyridoxine phosphate into pyridoxal phosphate in Escherichia coli. Biochem J 95, 775-779.
4. Horn, P. B. V., Backstrom A. D., Stewart, V. & Begley, T. P. (1993). Structural genes for thiamine biosynthetic enzymes (thiCEFGH) in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 175, 982-992.
5. Imamura, N. & Nakayama, H. (1981). thiD locus of Escherichia coli. Experientia 37, 1265-1266.
6. Imamura, N. & Nakayama, H. (1982). thiK and thiL loci of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 151, 708-717.
7. Kawasaki, T., Nakata, T. & Nose, Y. (1968). Genetic mapping with a thiamine-requiring auxotroph of Escherichia coli K-12 defective in thiamine phosphate pyrophosphorylase. J Bacteriol 95, 1483-1485.
8. Lam, H.-M. & Winkler, M. E. (1992). Characterization of the complex pdxH-tyrS operon of Escherichia coli K-12 and pleiotrophic phenotypes caused by pdxH insertion mutations. J Bacteriol 174, 6033-6045.
9. Lederberg, J. & Lederberg, E. M. (1952). Replica plating and indirect selection of bacterial mutants. J Bacteriol 63, 399-406.
10. Lennox, E. S. (1955). Transduction of linked genetic characters of the host by bacteriophage P1. Virology 1, 190-206.
11. Lewin, L. M. & Brown, G. M. (1961). The biosynthesis of thiamine. III. Mechanism of enzymatic formation of the pyrophosphate ester of 2-methyl-4-amino-5-hydroxymethylpyrimidine. J Biol Chem 236, 2768-2771.
12. Low, K. B. (1973). Rapid mapping of conditional and auxotrophic mutations in Escherichia coli K-12 . J Bacteriol 113, 798-812.
13. Miller, J. H. (1972). Experiments in Molecular Genetics. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
14. Mizote, T. & Nakayama, H. (1989a). Purification and properties of hydroxymethylpyrimidine kinase from Escherichia coli. Biochim Biophys Acta 991, 109-113.
15. Mizote, T. & Nakayama, H. (1989b). The thiM locus and its relation to phosphorylation of hydroxyethylthiazole in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 171, 3228-3232.
16. Nakayama, H. (1990). Genetic analysis of thiamin pyrophosphate biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. Vitamins 64, 619-632.
17. Nakayama, H. & Hayashi, R. (1972a). Biosynthesis of thiamine pyrophosphate in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 109, 936-938.
18. Nakayama, H. & Hayashi, R. (1972b). Biosynthetic pathway of thiamine pyrophosphate: a special reference to the thiamine monophosphate-requiring mutant and the thiamine pyrophosphate-requiring mutant of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 112, 1118-1126.
19. Nakayama, H. & Hayashi, R. (1979). Isolation and characterization of Escherichia coli mutants auxotrophic for thiamine phosphates. Methods Enzymol 62, 94-101.
20. Osborn, M., Person, S., Philips, S. & Funke, F. (1967). A determination of mutagen specificity in bacteria using nonsense mutants of bacteriophage T4. J Mol Biol 26, 437-447.
21. Shimizu, S. & Dempsey, B. W. (1976). Genetic map position of the pdxH gene in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 127, 1593-1594.
22. Taylor, A. L. & Trotter, C. D. (1967). Revised linkage map of Escherichia coli. Bacteriol Rev 31, 332-353.
23. Turner, J. M. & Happold, F. C. (1961). Pyridoxamine phosphateoxidase and pyridoxal phosphate-phosphatase activities in Escherichia coli. Biochem J 78, 364-372.
24. Yamada, K. & Kumaoka, H. (1982). Incorporation of a two-carbon fragment derived from ribose of 5-aminoimidazole ribotide into the pyrimidine moiety of thiamine. Biochem Int 5, 771-776.
25. Watanabe, K., Isoi, K., Nakayama H. & Hayashi, R. (1977). Some properties of a mutant strain of Escherichia coli requiring high concentration of 2-methyl-4-amino-5-hydroxymethylpyrimidine. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol 23, 81-93.