Role of GlnR in Controlling Expression of Nitrogen Metabolism Genes in Listeria monocytogenes.

Journal of Bacteriology
Rajesh BiswasBoris R Belitsky

Abstract

Listeria monocytogenes is a fastidious bacterial pathogen that can utilize only a limited number of nitrogen sources for growth. Both glutamine and ammonium are common nitrogen sources used in listerial defined growth media, but little is known about the regulation of their uptake or utilization. The functional role of L. monocytogenes GlnR, the transcriptional regulator of nitrogen metabolism genes in low-G+C Gram-positive bacteria, was determined using transcriptome sequencing and real-time reverse transcription-PCR experiments. The GlnR regulon included transcriptional units involved in ammonium transport (amtB glnK) and biosynthesis of glutamine (glnRA) and glutamate (gdhA) from ammonium. As in other bacteria, GlnR proved to be an autoregulatory repressor of the glnRA operon. Unexpectedly, GlnR was most active during growth with ammonium as the nitrogen source and less active in the glutamine medium, apparently because listerial cells perceive growth with glutamine as a nitrogen-limiting condition. Therefore, paradoxically, expression of the glnA gene, encoding glutamine synthetase, was highest in the glutamine medium. For the amtB glnK operon, GlnR served as both a negative regulator in the presence of ammonium and a posit...Continue Reading

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