Abstract
Escherichia coli K-12 can readily mutate to use methylphosphonic acid as the sole phosphorus source by a direct carbon-to-phorphorus (C-P) bond cleavage activity that releases methane and P(i). The in vivo C-P lyase activity is both physiologically and genetically regulated as a member of the phosphate regulon. Since psiD::lacZ(Mu d1) mutants cannot metabolize methylphosphonic acid, psiD may be the structural gene(s) for C-P lyase.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1753-1756 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of bacteriology |
Volume | 169 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1987 |