期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 190, 期 -, 页码 55-63出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.05.033
关键词
Corynebacterium glutamicum; Amino acid biosynthesis; Transcriptional attenuation; RNA-sequencing; Small RNAs
资金
- CLIB Graduate Cluster Industrial Biotechnology at Bielefeld University, Germany
- Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research (MIWF) of the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [0315585J, 0316017A]
- Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research (MIWF) of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the within the BIO.NRW initiative [280371902]
The Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum belongs to the order Corynebacteriales and is used as a producer of amino acids at industrial scales. Due to its economic importance, gene expression and particularly the regulation of amino acid biosynthesis has been investigated extensively. Applying the high-resolution technique of transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq), recently a vast amount of data has been generated that was used to comprehensively analyze the C. glutamicum transcriptome. By analyzing RNA-seq data from a small RNA cDNA library of C. glutamicum, short transcripts in the known transcriptional attenuators sites of the trp operon, the ilvBNC operon and the leuA gene were verified. Furthermore, whole transcriptome RNA-seq data were used to elucidate the transcriptional organization of these three amino acid biosynthesis operons. In addition, we discovered and analyzed the novel attenuator aroR, located upstream of the aroF gene (cg1129). The DAHP synthase encoded by aroF catalyzes the first step in aromatic amino acid synthesis. The AroR leader peptide contains the amino acid sequence motif F-Y-F, indicating a regulatory effect by phenylalanine and tyrosine. Analysis by real-time RT-PCR suggests that the attenuator regulates the transcription of aroF in dependence of the cellular amount of tRNA loaded with phenylalanine when comparing a phenylalanine-auxotrophic C. glutamicum mutant fed with limiting and excess amounts of a phenylalanine-containing dipeptide. Additionally, the very interesting finding was made that all analyzed attenuators are leaderless transcripts. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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