Abstract
The Escherichia coli uhp region encodes the transport system that mediates the uptake of a number of sugar phosphates as well as the regulatory components that are responsible for induction of this transport system by external glucose 6-phosphate. Four uhp genes have been identified by analysis of the complementation behavior and polypeptide coding capacity of plasmids carrying subcloned regions or transposon insertions. The nucleotide sequence of a 6.5-kilobase segment that contains the 3' end of the ilvBN operon and the entire uhp region was determined. Four open reading frames were identified in the locations expected for the various uhp genes; all were oriented in the same direction, counterclockwise relative to the genetic map. The properties of the polypeptides predicted from the nucleotide sequence were consistent with their observed features. The 196-amino-acid UhpA polypeptide has the composition characteristic of a soluble protein and bears homology to the DNA-binding regions of many regulatory activators and repressors. The 518-amino-acid UhpB and the 199-amino-acid UhpC regulatory proteins contain substantial segments of hydrophobic character. Similarly, the 463-amino-acid UhpT transporter is a hydrophobic protein with numerous potential transmembrane segments. The UhpC regulatory protein has substantial sequence homology to part of UhpT, suggesting that this regulatory protein might have evolved by duplication of the gene for the transporter and that its role in transmembrane signaling may involve sugar-phosphate-binding sites and transmembrane orientations similar to those of the transport protein.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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