Toxic Waste Disposal in <i>Escherichia coli</i>

  • Robert B. Helling
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Brian K. Janes
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Heather Kimball
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Timothy Tran
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Michael Bundesmann
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Pietra Check
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Darcy Phelan
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048
  • Charles Miller
    Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048

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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p> About 10% of the nalidixic acid-resistant (Nal <jats:sup>r</jats:sup> ) mutants in a transposition-induced library exhibited a growth factor requirement as the result of <jats:italic>cysH</jats:italic> , <jats:italic>icdA</jats:italic> , <jats:italic>metE</jats:italic> , or <jats:italic>purB</jats:italic> mutation. Resistance in all of these mutants required a functional AcrAB-TolC efflux pump, but the EmrAB-TolC pump played no obvious role. Transcription of <jats:italic>acrAB</jats:italic> was increased in each type of Nal <jats:sup>r</jats:sup> mutant. In the <jats:italic>icdA</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>purB</jats:italic> mutants, each of the known signaling pathways appeared to be used in activating the AcrAB-TolC pump. The metabolites that accumulate upstream of the blocks caused by the mutations are hypothesized to increase the levels of the AcrAB-TolC pump, thereby removing nalidixic acid from the organism. </jats:p>

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