NTG was used to make chemical mutation for Bacillus subtilis 93151. An enhanced osmotolerant mutant was obtained, which could grow in minimal medium containing 14% NaCl (w/v) and was not subject to proline-mediated feedback repression. The content of the intracellular free proline from the mutant increased rapidly with the rising of NaCl concentration. A 2.3 kb DNA fragment from the mutant was amplified using PCR method. Sequence analysis indicated that three bases changed within the proB gene, compared with the wild-type strain. One of the mutations was substitution of an A for a T at nt position 781, leading to a change of a Ser to a Thr at amino acid residue 261 of the deduced protein product, while other two were silent mutations. The recombinant vector pBE2-proB could functionally complement the proline auxotrophy E. coli 1.1252. Sequence analysis of proA showed that proA and proB overlapped by 4 nt, and there was a SD sequence at nt 14 upstream of the start codon of proA. The deduced amino acid of proA gene shared a high similarity with that of Bacillus subtilis 168 (77%).

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