RHIZOBIUM-SYNTHESIZED PHYTOTOXIN - AN INHIBITOR OF BETA-CYSTATHIONASE IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM

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作者
OWENS, LD
GUGGENHEIM, S
HILTON, JL
机构
[1] U.S. Soils Laboratory, Soil and Water Conservation Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Md
[2] Laboratory Biochemistry, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Md
[3] Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD
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D O I
10.1016/0304-4165(68)90134-7
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Rhizobitoxine, a phytotoxin synthesized by Rhizobium japonicum, inhibited the growth of Salmonella typhimurium wild-type and methionine-requiring mutant me-B on a medium supplemented with cystathionine. Neither strain was inhibited by the toxin when the medium was supplemented with homocysteine or methionine. Salmonella β-cystathionase was inhibited by very low concentrations of rhizobitoxine. Cystathionine γ-synthase and Neurospora γ-cystathionase were also inhibited, but at toxin concentrations 1000 times higher. These results indicate that growth inhibition is caused by a methionine deficiency induced by rhizobitoxine inhibition of β-cystathionase. © 1968.
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