MUTATIONS THAT RELIEVE NUTRITIONAL REPRESSION OF THE BACILLUS-SUBTILIS DIPEPTIDE PERMEASE OPERON

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SLACK, FJ [1 ]
MUELLER, JP [1 ]
SONENSHEIN, AL [1 ]
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[1] TUFTS UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT MOLEC BIOL & MICROBIOL,136 HARRISON AVE,BOSTON,MA 02111
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10.1128/JB.175.15.4605-4614.1993
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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The Bacillus subtilis dciA operon encodes a dipeptide transport complex that is induced rapidly as cells enter stationary phase and initiate sporulation. Expression of this operon in growing cells is repressed by glucose, by a mixture of amino acids, and by the AbrB protein. A genetic screen was devised to identify mutations that allow inappropriate expression from the dciA promoter during growth. These mutations resulted in increased dciA transcription during growth in nutrient broth, in minimal amino acids medium, and in minimal glucose medium. Some of the mutations, called dcs (dciA control site), were cloned and shown by sequence analysis to cluster near the start site of dciA transcription. Primer extension and in vitro transcription analysis revealed that the dcs mutations did not create a new promoter. These mutations may therefore disrupt an operator site necessary for the binding of a negative regulator responsive to the nutritional state of the cell. The dcs mutant promoters were still subject to AbrB control, suggesting that the dciA operon is regulated by at least two proteins, AbrB and a nutritionally responsive regulator. The gene(s) for the putative nutritional regulator may be defined by the cod (control of dciA) mutations, which appeared to relieve amino acid and glucose repression of dciA by altering a diffusible factor. An abrB cod double mutant exhibited high-level expression of dciA during exponential growth phase.
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