Author:
Hawley R. J.,Imaeda T.,Mann Nora
Abstract
Orange-red-pigmented (OR) colonies were isolated from cream-yellow-pigmented Mycobacterium smegmatis after exposure to either mycobacteriophage MC4 or ultraviolet light; these variant strains were designated OR4 and ORuv, respectively. Early subculture of OR-colonies did not show any segregation of parental-type cells. However, colonies resembling the parental strains, possibly representing a back mutant (REV-OR4), were occasionally found during subculture of established OR-colonies or upon treatment with N-nitroso-N′-nitro-N-methylguanidine. The OR-variants were characterized by their lytic response to nocardiophage, but not to mycobacteriophages, presence of α-branched, β-hydroxylated fatty acids of the Nocardia-type, and a guanine plus cytosine value of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) between 62 and 64 mol %. They were more resistant to the lethal action of both ultraviolet light and mitomycin C treatment than the parental and back mutant strains.Although the OR-variants in this study possess characteristics common to the genus Nocardia or some of the 'rhodochrous' mycobacteria, evidence is presented that they form a new class of mycobacterial variants.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Genetics,Molecular Biology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,General Medicine,Immunology,Microbiology
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8 articles.
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