PMID: 8955287Dec 1, 1996Paper

Regulation of CO2 assimilation in Ralstonia eutropha: premature transcription termination within the cbb operon

Journal of Bacteriology
J SchäferjohannBotho Bowien

Abstract

In the facultatively chemoautotrophic bacterium Ralstonia eutropha (formerly Alcaligenes eutrophus), most genes required for CO2 assimilation via the Calvin cycle are organized within two highly homologous cbb operons located on the chromosome and on megaplasmid pHG1, respectively, of strain H16. These operons are subject to tight control exerted by a promoter upstream of the 5'-terminal cbbL gene that is regulated by the activator CbbR. The existence of subpromoters within the operons was now excluded, as determined with lacZ operon fusions to suitable cbb gene fragments in the promoter-probe vector pBK. Nevertheless, marked differential expression of the promoter-proximal ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase genes cbbLS and the remaining distal genes occurs within the operons. Computer analysis revealed a potential stem-loop structure immediately downstream of cbbS that was suspected to be involved in the differential gene expression. Nuclease S1 mapping identified a major 3' end and a minor 3' end of the relatively stable cbbLS partial transcript just downstream of this structure. Moreover, operon fusions containing progressively deleted stem-loop structures showed that the structure primarily caused transcription...Continue Reading

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Dec 31, 1997·FEMS Microbiology Reviews·B Kusian, B Bowien
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