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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Grimm AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC93795 | biostudies-literature | 1999 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 19990501 10
Pseudomonas putida G7 exhibits chemotaxis to naphthalene, but the molecular basis for this was not known. A new gene, nahY, was found to be cotranscribed with meta cleavage pathway genes on the NAH7 catabolic plasmid for naphthalene degradation. The nahY gene encodes a 538-amino-acid protein with a membrane topology and a C-terminal region that resemble those of chemotaxis transducer proteins. A P. putida G7 nahY mutant grew on naphthalene but was not chemotactic to this aromatic hydrocarbon. Th ...[more]