Affiliation:
1. Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces 88003.
Abstract
The genetic locus glt, encoding glutamate synthase from Rhizobium meliloti 1021, was selected from a pLAFR1 clone bank by complementation of the R. meliloti 41 Glt- mutant AK330. A fragment of cloned DNA complementing this mutant also served to complement the Escherichia coli glt null mutant PA340. Complementation studies using these mutants suggested that glutamate synthase expression requires two complementation groups present at this locus. Genomic Southern analysis using a probe of the R. meliloti 1021 glt region showed a close resemblance between R. meliloti 1021, 41, and 102f34 at glt, whereas R. meliloti 104A14 showed many differences in restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns at this locus. R. meliloti 102f34, but not the other strains, showed an additional region with sequence similarity to glt. Insertion alleles containing transposable kanamycin resistance elements were constructed and used to derive Glt- mutants of R. meliloti 1021 and 102f34. These mutants were unable to assimilate ammonia and were Nod+ Fix+ on alfalfa seedlings. The mutants also showed poor or no growth on nitrogen sources such as glutamate, aspartate, arginine, and histidine, which are utilized by the wild-type parental strains. Strains that remained auxotrophic but grew nearly as well as the wild type on these nitrogen sources were readily isolated from populations of glt insertion mutants, indicating that degradation of these amino acids is negatively regulated in R. meliloti as a result of disruptions of glt.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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