Chitinase-overproducing mutant of Serratia marcescens.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
J D Reid, D M Ogrydziak

Abstract

Genetic modification of Serratia marcescens QMB1466 was undertaken to isolated mutants which produce increased levels of chitinolytic activity. After mutagenesis with ultraviolet light, ethyl methane sulfonate or N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, 19,940 colonies were screened for production of enlarged zones of clearing (indicative of chitinase activity) on chitin-containing agar plates. Forty-four chitinase high producers were tested further in shake flask cultures. Mutant IMR-1E1 was isolated which, depending on medium composition, produced two to three times more than the wild type of the other components of the chitinolytic enzyme system--a factor involved in the hydrolysis of crystalline chitin and chitobiase. After induction by chitin, endochitinase and chitobiase activity appeared at similar times for both IMR-1E1 and QMB1466, suggesting possible coordinate control of these enzymes. The results are consistent with IMR-1E1 containing a regulatory mutation which increased production of the components of the chitinolytic enzyme system and/or with IMR-1E1 containing a tandem duplication of the chitinase genes. The high rate of reversion of IMR-1E1 to decreased levels of chitinase production suggests that the overproducti...Continue Reading

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