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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 316, 期 2, 页码 83-89出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02196.x
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Escherichia coli; L-alanine export; alanine auxotroph; peptide sensitivity
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An Escherichia coli strain that exhibits a double auxotrophy for l-alanine and d-alanine was constructed. During growth in the presence of the dipeptide l-alanyl-l-alanine (Ala-Ala), this was fully consumed with concomitant extracellular accumulation of l-alanine in a twofold molar concentration compared with the dipeptide. This finding indicates that the strain not only can hardly degrade l-alanine but has an export system(s) for l-alanine. To obtain access to the system, we chemically mutagenized the l-alanine-nonmetabolizing strain and isolated mutants with increased Ala-Ala sensitivity. Two such mutants accumulated l-alanine up to 150-190 mM in the cytoplasm with a reduced rate of l-alanine export relative to the parent strain in the presence of Ala-Ala. Furthermore, when chloramphenicol was added together with Ala-Ala, the parent strain accumulated l-alanine in the cytoplasm to a level similar to that observed in the mutants in the absence of chloramphenicol. In contrast, the intracellular l-alanine level in the mutants did not change irrespective of chloramphenicol treatment. From these results, we conclude that E. coli has an inducible l-alanine export carrier, together with a second, as yet unidentified, mechanism of alanine export.
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