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Effect of regulatory protein levels on utilization of starch by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Abstract：

:Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a gram-negative obligate anaerobe, appears to utilize starch by first binding the polymer to its surface and then translocating it into the periplasmic space. Several genes that encode enzymes or outer membrane proteins involved in starch utilization have been identified. These have been called sus genes, for starch utilization system. Previous studies have shown that sus structural genes are regulated at the transcriptional level and their expression is induced by maltose. We report here the identification and characterization of a gene, susR, which appears to be responsible for maltose-dependent regulation of the sus structural genes. The deduced amino acid sequence of SusR protein had a helix-turn-helix motif at its carboxy-terminal end, and this region had highest sequence similarity to the corresponding regions of known transcriptional activators. A disruption in susR eliminated the expression of all known sus structural genes, as expected if susR encoded an activator of sus gene expression. The expression of susR itself was not affected by the growth substrate and was not autoregulated, suggesting that binding of SusR to maltose might be the step that activates SusR. Three susR-controlled structural genes, susA, susB, and susC, are located immediately upstream of susR. These genes are organized into two transcriptional units, one containing susA and another containing susB and susC. susA was expressed at a lower level than susBC, and susA expression was more sensitive to the gene dosage of susR than was that of the susBC operon. An unexpected finding was that increasing the number of copies of susR in B. thetaiotaomicron increased the rate of growth on starch. This effect could be due to higher levels of susA expression. Whatever the explanation, the level of SusR in the cell appears to be a limiting factor for growth on starch.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

D'Elia JN,Salyers AA

doi

10.1128/jb.178.24.7180-7186.1996

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-12-01 00:00:00

pages

7180-6

issue

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

178

pub_type

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Effect of regulatory protein levels on utilization of starch by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.