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JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 158, Issue 4, Pages 231-241Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2011.06.003
Keywords
Corynebacterium glutamicum; Leucine responsive protein; Amino acid production; Lrp family trasncriptional regulators; Regulation of transport of branched-chain amino acids
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- European Union [QLK 3-2000-00497]
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Corynebacterium glutamicum possesses export systems for various amino acids including BrnFE, a two-component export system for l-methionine and the branched-chain amino acids l-valine, l-isoleucine and l-leucine. A gene for a putative transcriptional regulator of the Lrp family is transcribed divergently to the brnFE operon and is required for l-isoleucine export. By comparing global gene expression changes due to l-isoleucine addition we revealed increased brnFE expression in response to l-isoleucine in C. glutamicum wild type but not in an lrp deletion mutant. ChIP-to-chip analysis, band shift experiments and DNAse footprint analysis demonstrated that Lrp binds to the intergenic region between lrp and brnF. Expression analysis of transcriptional fusions with the lrp and brnFE promoters indicated that branched-chain amino acids and l-methionine when added to the growth medium stimulated brnFE expression in the order l-leucine > l-methionine > l-isoleucine > l-valine and that Lrp was required for activation of brnFE expression. Thus, regulation of brnFE by Lrp ensures that BrnFE is synthesized only if its substrate amino acids accumulate in cells which is commensurate with its role to counteract such situations of metabolic imbalance. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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