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Abstract

Mutants of bv. MNF300 and bv. WU95 unable to accumulate 4-hydroxybenzoate lack 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. The capacity of these mutants to take up and grow on 4-hydroxybenzoate was restored by a 2.0 kb RI-DNA fragment. This contained only one ORF which had over 60% DNA sequence similarity with the structural gene for 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase () from spp. and Reported effects of metabolic inhibitors and substrate analogues on the apparent uptake of 4-hydroxybenzoate have now been shown to be due to their direct effect on 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylase. We propose that uptake of 4-hydroxybenzoate is via a metabolic ‘drag’ mechanism dependent on the activity of the gene product.

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