Maltose-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation of the mal Regulon by MalR in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
PLoS One, 2015;10(6):e0127579.
Afzal M[1], Shafeeq S[2], Manzoor I[1], Kuipers OP[3]
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PMID: 26030923DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127579
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Abstract
The maltose regulon (mal regulon) has previously been shown to consist of the mal gene cluster (malMP, malXCD and malAR operons) in Streptococcus pneumoniae. In this study, we have further elucidated the complete mal regulon in S. pneumoniae D39 using microarray analyses and β-galactosidase assays. In addition to the mal gene cluster, the complete mal regulon of S. pneumoniae D39 consists of a pullulanase (PulA), a glucosidase (DexB), a glucokinase (RokB), a PTS component (PtsG) and an amylase (AmyA2). Our microarray studies and β-galactosidase assays further showed that the LacI-family transcriptional regulator MalR represses the expression of the mal regulon in the absence of maltose. Furthermore, the role of the pleiotropic transcriptional regulator CcpA in the regulation of the mal regulon in the presence of maltose was explored. Our microarray analysis with a ΔccpA strain showed that CcpA only represses the expression of the malXCD operon and the pulA gene in the presence of maltose. Hence, we extend the mal regulon now consisting of pulA, dexB, rokB, ptsG and amyA2 in addition to malMP, malXCD and malAR operons.
MeSH terms
Bacterial Proteins; Base Sequence; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Genes, Bacterial; Glucose; Maltose; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Operator Regions, Genetic; Operon; Regulon; Repressor Proteins; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Transcription, Genetic; Transcriptome
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