This possibility, in turn, suggests that mutant strains might be profitably applied as bioprobes to establish the availability of vitamin B12 in vivo. National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Cohen, E. (2003 April 25). Brain Dev. 2B). Mayo Clinic Staff (2011 March 4). A similar experiment utilizing the prpDC mutant reinforced that observation (Fig. Available online at http://www.aruplab.com/guides/clt/tests/clt_270c.jsp#1150535. (Reviewed 2011 April 4). The addition of vitamin B12 (as cyanocobalamin) at a concentration of 10 μg/ml (56) restored the growth of the ΔprpDC mutant. (B) Growth of H37Rv on vitamin B12-supplemented valerate with (□) or without (▪) 3NP. Vitamin B12. The fragment was blunt ended with Klenow fragment (Roche) and religated to create p2ΔmutAB. Stevenson, R. (© 2004). Available online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000354.htm. Available online at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/prnanmia/prnanmia_what.html. Mayo Medical Laboratories. MedlinePlus. Haggerty, M. (© 2004). Genetic reversion of the mutAB mutation in the ΔmutAB mutant strain was carried out by knock-in allelic exchange mutagenesis using the suicide plasmid p2mutAB17, which contains the full-length mutAB genes plus 1,431 bp of 3′- and 2,228 bp of 5′-flanking chromosomal sequences (see Table S1 in the supplemental material) and was produced by cloning the lacZ-sacB cassette from pGOAL17 into the PacI site of p2mutAB. The reasons for this difference are unclear, but one possibility is that during the three rounds of allelic exchange mutagenesis required for its construction, the reversion mutant may have inadvertently acquired a second-site mutation(s) that adversely affected its growth on propionate. The metabolic capacity of pathogens during infection is a key factor in defining the interaction with the host. Consistent with this designation, Rv1496 is located only 626 bp downstream of mutB, with the two genes separated by a predicted MazEF-type toxin-antitoxin module (Rv1494 and Rv1495) (42, 57). See this image and copyright information in PMC. Take folic acid before you're pregnant. We sought to address whether the mutAB-encoded MCM is functional in M. tuberculosis and to investigate the possibility that the methylmalonyl pathway provides an alternative to the methylcitrate cycle during growth on propionate. ), and the NHLS Trust (to S.S.D.) 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Pernicious anemia. 3A versus 5A) suggested that the partitioning of propionyl-CoA between the methylcitrate cycle and the methylmalonyl pathway may differ depending on the carbon source used. Available online at http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0301/p979.html. Available online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000569.htm. Vitamin B12 deficiency should be considered in patients with neurologic features such as paresthesia, sensory deficits, urinary incontinence, dysarthria, and ataxia. Where pathogenesis is obligate, as is the case with M. tuberculosis, metabolism is integral to the ability of the organism to infect, survive, and be transmitted and therefore cannot be separated from concepts of virulence.