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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 1527-1537Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.035840-0
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- Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology [BIO2003-03274, BIO2006-14853]
- European Community [LSHMCT-2004-005224]
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Streptomyces clavuligerus ATCC 27064 is unable to use glucose but has genes for a glucose permease (glcP) and a glucose kinase (glkA). Transformation of S. clavuligerus 27064 with the Streptomyces coelicolor glcP1 gene with its own promoter results in a strain able to grow on glucose. The glcP gene of S. clavuligerus encodes a 475 amino acid glucose permease with 12 transmembrane segments. GlcP is a functional protein when expressed from the S. coelicolor glcP1 promoter and complements two different glucose transport-negative Escherichia coli mutants. Transcription studies indicate that the glcP promoter is very weak and does not allow growth on glucose. These results suggest that S. clavuligerus initially contained a functional glucose permease gene, like most other Streptomyces species, and lost the expression of this gene by adaptation to glucose-poor habitats.
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