Growth phase-dependent transcription of the σ54-dependent Po promoter controlling the Pseudomonas-derived (methyl)phenol dmp operon of pVI150

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 3727-3735

  Sze, Chun Chau ^a   Moore, Terry ^a,b   Shingler, Victoria ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GENE PRODUCT; LUCIFERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0001493114     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.13.3727-3735.1996     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Austin, S., and R. Dixon. 1992. The prokaryotic enhancer binding protein NtrC has an ATPasc activity which is phdsphorylatinn and DNA dependent. EMBOJ. 11:2219-2228.
2. Aviv, M., H. Giladi, G. Schreiber, A. B. Oppenheim, and G. Glaser. 1994. Expression of the genes encoding for the Escherichia coli integration host factor are controlled by growth phase. rpoS, ppGpp and by autoregulation. Mol. Microbiol. 14:1021-1031.
3. Balke, V. L., and J. D. Gralla. 1987. Changes in the linking numher of supercoiled DNA accompanying growth transition in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 169:4499-4506.
4. Biek, D. P., and S. N. Cohen. 1989. Involvement of integration host factor (IMF) in maintenance of plasmid pSC101 in Escherichia coli: characterization of pSC101 mutants that replicate in the absence of IHF. J. Bacteriol. 171:2056-2065.
5. Casadaban, M. J., and S. N. Cohen. 1980. Analysis of gene control signals by DNA fusion and cloning in Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol. 138:179-207.
6. 54 in exponential silencing of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid Pu promoter. Mol. Microbiol. 19:7-17.
7. Cronan, J. E. 1968. Phospholipid alterations during growth of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 95:2054-2061.
8. Delgado, A., and J. L. Ramos. 1994. Genetic evidence for activation of the positive transcriptional regulator XylR. a member of the NtrC family of regulators, by effector binding. J. Biol. Chem. 269:8059-8062.
9. de Lorenzo, V., I. Cases, M. Herrero, and K. N. Timmis. 1993. Early and late response of TOL promoters to pathway inducers: identification of postexponential promoters in Pseudomonas putida with lacZ-let bicistronie reporters. J. Bacteriol. 175:6902-6907.
10. q/Ptrp-lac plasmids and transposons that confer conditional phenotypes. Gene 123:17-24.
11. de Lorenzo, V., M. Herrero, U. Jakubzik, and K. N. Timmis. 1990. Mini-Tn5 transposon derivatives for insertional mutagenesis, promoter probing, and chromosomal insertion of cloned DNA in gram-negative eubacteria. J. Bacteriol. 172:6568-6572.
12. Ditto, M. D., D. Roberts, and R. A. Weisberg. 1994. Growth phase variation of integration host factor level in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 176:3738-3748.
13. Duetz, W. A., S. Marqués, C. de Jong, J. L. Ramos, and J. G. van Andel. 1994. Inducibility of the TOL catabolic pathway in Pseudomonas putida (pWWO) growing on succinatc in continuous culture: evidence of carbon catabolite repression control. J. Bacteriol. 176:2354-2361.
14. Fémandez, S., V. Shingler, and V. de Lorenzo. 1995. Cross-regulation by XylR and DmpR activators of Pseudomonas putida suggest that transcriptional control of biodegradation operons evolves independently of catabolic genes. J. Bacteriol. 176:5052-5058.
15. Kinkel, S. E., and R. C. Johnson. 1992. The Fis protein: it's not just for DNA inversion anymore. Mol. Microbiol. 6:3257-3265.
16. Franklin, F. C. H., M. Bagdasarian, M. M. Bagdasarian, and K. N. Timmis. 1981. Molecular and functional analysis of the TOL plasmid pWWO from Pseudomonas putida and cloning of genes for the entire regulated aromatic ring meta-cleavage pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:7458-7462.
17. Fürste, J. P., W. Pansegrau, R. Frank, H. Blöcker, P. Scholz, M. Bagdasarian, and E. Lanka. 1987. Molecular cloning of the RP4 DNA primase region in a multirange lacP expression vector. Gene 55:19-28.
18. Goosen, N., and P. van de Putte. 1995. The regulation of transcription by initiation host factor. Mol. Microbiol. 16:1-7.
19. 54-dependent transcriptional activator, may be negatively controlled by a subdomain in the C-terminal end of its two-component receiver module. Mol. Microbiol. 13:51-66.
20. Holtel, A., S. Marqués, I. Möhler, U. Jakubzik, and K. N. Timmis. 1994. Carbon source-dependent inhibition of xyl operon expression of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plusmid. J. Bacteriol. 176:1773-1776.
21. 54-dependent transcriptional activator FHLA from Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 177:2798-2803.
22. Hugouvieux-Cotte-Paltat, N., T. Köhler, M. Rekik, and S. Harayama. Growth-phase-dependent expression of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid pWWO catabolic genes. J. Bacteriol. 172:6651-6660.
23. Johnson, R. C., C. A. Ball, D. Pfeffer, and M. I. Simon. 1988. Isolation of the Hin recombinational enhancer hinding protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:3484-3488.
24. Kaasen, I., P. Falkenberg, O. B. Styrvold, and A. Strom. 1992 Molecular cloning and physical mapping of the otsRA genes, which encode the osmoregulatory trehalose pathway of Escherichia coli: evidence that transcription is activated by KatF (AppR). J. Bacteriol. 174:889-898.
25. 54. J. Bacteriol. 177:1850-1859.
26. s. J. Bacteriol. 173:4474-4481.
27. s (KatF) in bacterial global regulation. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 48:53-80.
28. Marqués, S., A. Holtel, K. N. Timmis, and J. L. Ramos. 1994. Transcription induction kinetics from the promoters of the catabolic pathways of TOL plasmid pWWO of Pseudomonas putida for metabolism of aromatics. J. Bacteriol. 176:2517-2524.
29. 54 bacterial enhancer-binding protein family: mechanism of action and phylogenetic relationship of their functional domains. J. Bacteriol. 175:6067-6074.
30. North, A. K., K. E. Klose, K. M. Stedman, and S. Kustu. 1993. Prokaryotic enhancer-binding proteins reflect eukaryotic-like modularity: the puzzle of nitrogen regulatory protein C. J. Bacteriol. 175:4267-4273.
31. Nozaki, M. 1970. Metapyrocatechasc (Pseudomonas). Methods Enzymol. 17:522-525.
32. Olsson, O., C. Konez, and A. A. Szalay. 1988. The use of the luxA gene of the bacterial luciferase operon as a reporter gene. Mol. Gen. Genet. 215:1-9.
33. Pavel, H., M. Foreman, and V. Shingler. 1994. An aromatic effector specificity mutant of the transcriptional regulator DmpR overcomes the growth constraints of Pseudomonas sp. strain CF600 on para-substituted methylphenols. J. Bacteriol. 176:7550-7557.
34. Pérez-Martin, J., F. Rojo, and V. de Lorenzo. 1994. Promoters responsive to DNA bending: a common theme in prokaryotic gene expression. Microbiol. Rev. 58:268-290.
35. Powlowski, J., and V. Shingler. 1994. Genetics and biochemistry of phenol degradation by Pseudomonas sp. strain CF600. Biodegradation 5:1-18.
36. Rouviere, P. E., A. De Las Penas, J. Mecsas, C. Z. Lu, K. E. Rudd, and C. A. Gross. 1995. rpoE, the gene encoding the second heat-shock sigma factor, sigma E, in Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 14:1032-1042.
37. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
38. 54-dependent regulators: derepression as a control mechanism. Mol. Microbiol. 19:409-416.
39. Shingler, V., M. Bartilson, and T. Moore. 1993. Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the positive regulator, DmpR, of the phenol catabolic pathway of pVI150: a member of the NtrC family of transcriptional activators. J. Bacteriol. 175:1596-1604.
40. Shingler, V., F. C. H. Franklin, M. Tsuda D. Holroyd, and M. Bagdasarian. 1989. Molecular analysis of a plasmid encoded phenol hydroxylase of Pseudomonas CF600. J. Gen. Microbiol. 135:1083-1092.
41. 4L Shingler, V., and T. Moore. 1994. Sensing of aromatic compounds by the DmpR transcriptional activator of phenol catabolizing Pseudomonas sp. strain CF600. J. Bacteriol. 176:1555-1560.
42. Shingler, V., and H. Pavel. 1995. Direct regulation of the ATPase activity of the transcriptional activator DmpR by aromatic compounds. Mol. Microbiol. 17:505-513.
43. Shingler, V., J. Powlowski, and U. Marklund. 1992. Nucleotide sequence and functional analysis of the complete phenol/3.4-dimethylphenol catabolic pathway of Pseudomonas sp. strain CF600. J. Bacteriol. 174:711-724.
44. Silhavy, T. J., M. L. Berman, and L. W. Enquist. 1984. Experiments with gene fusions. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
45. Weiss, D. S., J. Batut, K. E. Klose, J. Keener, and S. Kustu. 1991. The phosphorylated form of enhancer-binding protein NTRC has an ATPase activity that is essential for activation of transcription. Cell 67:155-167.
46. Zambrano, M. M., D. A. Siegel, M. Almirón, A. Tormo, and R. Kolter. 1993. Microbial competition: Escherichia coli mutants that take over stationary phase cultures. Science 259:1757-1760.