title: Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and transcriptional analysis of the Pediococcus acidilactici L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase gene.
abstract: Recombinant plasmids containing the Pediococcus acidilactici L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase gene (ldhL) were isolated by complementing for growth under anaerobiosis of an Escherichia coli lactate dehydrogenase-pyruvate formate lyase double mutant. The nucleotide sequence of the ldhL gene predicted a protein of 323 amino acids showing significant similarity with other bacterial L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenases and especially with that of Lactobacillus plantarum. The ldhL transcription start points in P. acidilactici were defined by primer extension, and the promoter sequence was identified as TCAAT-(17 bp)-TATAAT. This sequence is closely related to the consensus sequence of vegetative promoters from gram-positive bacteria as well as from E. coli. Northern analysis of P. acidilactici RNA showed a 1.1-kb ldhL transcript whose abundance is growth rate regulated. These data, together with the presence of a putative rho-independent transcriptional terminator, suggest that ldhL is expressed as a monocistronic transcript in P. acidilactici.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Garmyn
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ferain
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hols
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delcour
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010376:Pediococcus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase