CcpA-Independent Regulation of Expression of the Mg2+-Citrate Transporter Gene citM by Arginine Metabolism in Bacillus subtilis
AUTOR(ES)
Warner, Jessica B.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Transcriptional regulation of the Mg2+-citrate transporter, CitM, the main citrate uptake system of Bacillus subtilis, was studied during growth in rich medium. Citrate in the growth medium was required for induction under all growth conditions. In Luria-Bertani medium containing citrate, citM expression was completely repressed during the exponential growth phase, marginally expressed in the transition phase, and highly expressed in the stationary growth phase. The repression was relieved when the cells were grown in spent Luria-Bertani medium. The addition of a mixture of 18 amino acids restored repression. l-Arginine in the mixture appeared to be solely responsible for the repression, and ornithine appeared to be an equally potent repressor of citM expression. Studies of mutant strains deficient in RocR and SigL, proteins required for the expression of the enzymes of the arginase pathway, confirmed that uptake into the cell and, most likely, conversion of arginine to ornithine were required for repression. Arginine-mediated repression was independent of a functional CcpA, the global regulator protein in carbon catabolite repression (CCR). Nevertheless, CCR-mediated repression was the major mechanism controlling the expression during exponential growth, while the newly described, CcpA-independent arginine-mediated repression was specifically apparent during the transition phase of growth.
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