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A target for carbon source-dependent negative regulation of the citB promoter of Bacillus subtilis
A Fouet et al. J Bacteriol. 1990 Feb.
Abstract
Expression of the aconitase (citB) gene of Bacillus subtilis is subject to catabolite repression in cells grown in minimal media. In nutrient broth medium, citB expression is low in growing cells but is induced when cells enter sporulation. A 600-base-pair DNA fragment that extends from positions -400 through +200, relative to the transcription start site, was shown to include all of the cis-acting sequences necessary for catabolite repression and sporulation-associated regulation. This was demonstrated by fusing this DNA fragment to the Escherichia coli lacZ gene, integrating the fusion in the amyE locus of the B. subtilis chromosome, and measuring the regulation of expression of beta-galactosidase. By creating a series of deletions from either end of the 600-base-pair fragment, it was possible to define a target for catabolite repression; at least part of this target lies within the sequence between positions -84 and -68. DNA fragments that included positions -84 through +36, when carried on high-copy plasmids, caused derepression of aconitase synthesis, as if a negative regulator were being titrated. The same plasmids caused derepression of citrate synthase activity as well. Deletion of the sequence between positions -84 and -67 abolished this titration effect for both enzymes. Mutations that altered the target for catabolite repression also affected the inducibility of citB at the onset of sporulation, at least when sporulation was induced by the addition of decoyinine, an inhibitor of guanine nucleotide synthesis. When sporulation was induced by exhaustion of nutrient broth, there was no detectable difference in expression of citB-lacZ fusions whether or not they had the citB sequence from positions -84 to -67, suggesting that the mechanisms of regulation of citB in minimal medium and nutrient broth are different.
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