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Two classes of ornithine-nonutilizing (oru) mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO were investigated. Strains carrying the oru-310 mutation were entirely unable to grow on l-ornithine as the only carbon and nitrogen source and were affected in the assimilation of a variety of nitrogen sources (e.g., amino acids, nitrate). The oru-310 mutation caused changes in the regulation of the catabolic NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase; this enzyme was no longer inducible by glutamate but instead could be induced by ammonia. The oru-310 locus was cotransducible with car-9 and tolA in the 10 min region of the chromosome. An oru-314 mutant was severely handicapped in ornithine medium but could grow when a good carbon source was added; the mutant also showed pleiotropic growth effects related to nitrogen metabolism. The oru-314 mutation affected the regulation of the anabolic NADP-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase, which was no longer repressed by glutamate but showed normal derepression in the presence of ammonia. The oru-314 locus was mapped by transduction near met-9011 at 55 min. Both oru mutants could grow on l-glutamate, l-proline, or l-ornithine amended with 2-oxoglutarate, albeit slowly. We speculate that insufficient 2-oxoglutarate concentrations might account, at least in part, for the Oru- phenotype of the mutants.
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Früh, R., Haas, D. & Leisinger, T. Altered control of glutamate dehydrogenases in ornithine utilization mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa . Arch. Microbiol. 141, 170–176 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00423280
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