Transcriptional Regulation of Alcaligenes eutrophus Hydrogenase Genes

AUTOR(ES)

Schwartz, Edward

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 produces a soluble hydrogenase (SH) and a membrane-bound hydrogenase (MBH) which catalyze the oxidation of H2, supplying the organism with energy for autotrophic growth. The promoters of the structural genes for the SH and the MBH, PSH and PMBH, respectively, were identified by means of the primer extension technique. Both promoters were active in vivo under hydrogenase-derepressing conditions but directed only low levels of transcription under conditions which repressed hydrogenase synthesis. The cellular pools of SH and MBH transcripts under the different growth conditions correlated with the activities of the respective promoters. Also, an immediate and drastic increase in transcript pool levels occurred upon derepression of the hydrogenase system. Both promoters were dependent on the minor sigma factor ς54 and on the hydrogenase regulator HoxA in vivo. PSH was stronger than PMBH under both heterotrophic and autotrophic growth conditions. The two promoters were induced at approximately the same rates upon derepression of the hydrogenase system in diauxic cultures. The response regulator HoxA mediated low-level activation of PSH and PMBH in a heterologous system.

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