Abstract
Mutants resistant to various combinations of threonine, lysine and/or their analogs were obtained and characterized in Pseudomonas acidovorans. In particular, mutants resistant to aminoethylcysteine had a dihydrodipicolinate synthetase insensitive to lysine inhibition whereas mutants resistant to threonine plus a low concentration of aminoethylcysteine had a feedback-insensitive aspartokinase.
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Thevenet, N.J., Vandecasteele, JP. Isolation of regulatory mutants of Pseudomonas acidovorans by use of amino acid analogs. Arch. Microbiol. 107, 225–227 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446845
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00446845