Author:
Zhu Yanping,Wang Jiao,Su Wenya,Lu Ting,Li Aiying,Pang Xiuhua
Abstract
SummaryGlnR activates nitrogen metabolism genes under nitrogen-limited conditions whereas MtrA represses these genes under nutrient-rich conditions in Streptomyces. In this study, we compared the transcription patterns of nitrogen metabolism genes in a double deletion mutant (ΔmtrA-glnR) lacking both mtrA and glnR and in mutants lacking either mtrA (ΔmtrA) or glnR (ΔglnR). The nitrogen metabolism genes were expressed similarly in ΔmtrA-glnR and ΔglnR under both nitrogen-limited and nutrient-rich conditions, with patterns distinctly different from that of ΔmtrA, suggesting a decisive role for GlnR in the control of nitrogen metabolism genes and further suggesting that regulation of these genes by MtrA is GlnR-dependent. MtrA and GlnR utilize the same binding sites upstream of nitrogen metabolism genes, and we showed stronger in vivo binding of MtrA to these sites under nutrient-rich conditions and of GlnR under nitrogen-limited conditions, consistent with the higher levels of MtrA or GlnR under those respective conditions. In addition, we showed that both mtrA and glnR are auto-regulatory. Our study provides new insights into the regulation of nitrogen metabolism genes in Streptomyces.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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