When Mycobacterium strain MorG was grown with morpholine as sole source of carbon and nitrogen, enzymes for ethanolamine catabolism (via the ethanolamine-O-phosphate pathway) and glycollate catabolism (via the glycerate pathway) were strongly induced. Almost all morpholine-negative (Mor-) mutants of MorG failed to utilize glycollate as a carbon source and were shown to be defective in one or more enzymes for its metabolism via the glycerate pathway. Growth of MorG with morpholine also induced the Jacoby and Fredericks pathway for pyrrolidine catabolism, M o r -mutants had invariably lost the ability to grow on pyrrolidine and 2(2-aminoethoxy)acetate was shown to be an intermediate in morpholine catabolism. This indicates that morpholine is initially catabolised by an analogous route to pyrrolidine, producing 2(2-aminoethoxy)acetate which can be oxidatively cleaved to give rise directly to glycollate and indirectly to ethanolamine.
The plasmid content of an environmental mycobacterium (MorG) which degrades morpholine (Mor+ phenotype) was investigated. The combination, in what appears to be a novel way, of restriction endonuclease digestion, gel electrophoresis and scanning densitometry permitted the resolution of mixed plasmid preparations into four distinct plasmids with sizes of 54 (approximately), 22.7, 22.8 and 22.6 kb. These plasmids were named pMOR1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The Mor+ phenotype was found to be unstable during acriflavin treatment. In four independently isolated Mor− mutants, plasmid pMOR2 was found to have acquired an insert of approximately 1.8 kb within a specific 5.9 kb BamHI fragment. It is concluded that pMOR2 is involved in the coding of the Mor+ phenotype.
The plasmid content of an environmental mycobacterium (MorG) which degrades morpholine (Mor+ phenotype) was investigated. The combination, in what appears to be a novel way, of restriction endonuclease digestion, gel electrophoresis and scanning densitometry permitted the resolution of mixed plasmid preparations into four distinct plasmids with sizes of 54 (approximately), 27.7, 22.8 and 22.6 kb. These plasmids were named pMOR1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. The Mor+ phenotype was found to be unstable during acriflavin treatment. In four independently isolated Mor- mutants, plasmid pMOR2 was found to have acquired an insert of approximately 1.8 kb within a specific 5.9 kb BamHI fragment. It is concluded that pMOR2 is involved in the coding of the Mor+ phenotype.
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