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SUMMARY: Enzymes were assayed in extracts of Bacillus sphaericus harvested late in the exponential phase from batch cultures in a minimal (acetate plus salts) medium. Aspartokinase was repressed and inhibited by threonine; lysine alone had no effect, though it increased the inhibition (but not the repression) by threonine. Aspartic β-semialdehyde dehydrogenase was slightly repressed by lysine. Dihydrodipicolinate synthase was inhibited non-competitively by lysine, and dihydro-dipicolinate reductase was partly repressed by lysine. Diaminopimelate dehydrogenase (with tetrahydrodipicolinate as substrate) was inhibited by meso-diaminopimelate. Lysine did not repress diaminopimelate decarboxylase, and only slightly inhibited this enzyme. An auxotrophic mutant that required threonine and methionine excreted lysine after growth had stopped with a limited concentration of threonine.
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