Complete deficiency of 5'-nucleotidase activity in Escherichia coli leads to loss of growth on purine nucleotides but not of their excretion.

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Escherichia coli has many periplasmic phosphatase activities. To test whether it can take up and excrete purine nucleotides, we attempted to completely disrupt periplasmic 5'-nucleotidase activity. A 5'-nucleotidase activity was induced in ushA knockout mutant cells, which lack major 5'-nucleotidase activity, when they were grown with purine nucleotides as the sole carbon source. Using DNA macroarrays to compare...

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