REGULATION OF BETA-GLUCOSIDE SYSTEM IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI K-12
REGULATION OF BETA-GLUCOSIDE SYSTEM IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI K-12
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.120.2.638-650.1974
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
SCHAEFLER, S
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作者:
PRASAD, I;SCHAEFLER, S
InEscherichia coliwild-type cells, a mutation at the β-glucoside regulatory gene (bglR+tobglR−) leads to simultaneous expression of inducible phospho-β-glucosidase B (bglB+) and a β-glucoside-specific species of enzyme II (β-glucoside transport I [bglC+]); an additional mutation (bglS+tobglS4) allows these enzymes to be formed constitutively. Thebglalleles have been mapped in the following order:pyrE, bglA, bglB, bglS, bglR, bglC, ilvD. The back mutation in the regulatory allele (bglR−tobglR+) caused the cessation of the expression of thebglB+,bglS+orbglS4, bglC+alleles. However, a mutation in a strain withbglB+,bglS4, bglR8, bglC+alleles, at theinisite that lies between thebglS4and thebglR8allele, allowed the expression of thebglS4andbglB+alleles, but showed no affect on the expression of thebglC+allele. It is suggested that theinimutation possesses a promotor-type function that in the absence of regulatory allele function (bglR8) renews the functioning of only thebglS4andbglB+alleles. The complementation studies have shown that thebglB+,bglS+orbglS4, bglC+alleles are expressed only incisto thebglR−allele. In the constitutive strain (bglB+,bglS4, bglR−,bglC+), the expressedbglS4allele formed a soluble product that acts intransover thebglB+andbglC+alleles and that appears effective only when thebglB+and thebglC+alleles are expressed incisto thebglR−allele. It thus showed that the constitutive biosynthesis of phospho-β-glucosidase B and β-glucoside transport I is under positive control. Since the regulatory allelebglR−lies between thebglS4and theblgC+alleles, and acts incis, it appears that the mutation (bglR+tobglR−) allows the initiation of transcription in one direction to express thebglS4, bglB+alleles and in the other to express thebglC+allele. The structural genesbglBandbglClie adjacent to the regulatory genesbglRandbglS, and the structural genes are coordinately controlled by the regulatory genes. It is, therefore, proposed that thebglB, bglS, bglR, bglCgenes form abgloperon.