title: Carbon regulation of the cuticle-degrading enzyme PR1 from Metarhizium anisopliae may involve a trans-acting DNA-binding protein CRR1, a functional equivalent of the Aspergillus nidulans CREA protein.
abstract: The pr1 gene of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae encodes a serine protease that is highly active towards the insect cuticle and whose synthesis is subject to both carbon and nitrogen repression. The pr1 promoter region was sequenced revealing the presence of putative CREA- and AREA-binding sites. In vitro bandshift experiments demonstrated that an Aspergillus nidulans GST-CREA fusion protein was capable of binding to two of the three putative CREA sites. Using a PCR-based strategy the M. anisopliae crr1 gene was identified; it encodes a putative C2H2-type DNA-binding protein with significant sequence similarity to A. nidulans CREA. Complementation experiments with an A. nidulans strain carrying creA204 demonstrated that CRR1 can partially substitute for CREA function.
authors.affiliation: Microbial Pathogenicity Group, School of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Screen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Charnley
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clarkson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001233:Aspergillus nidulans / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D005658:Fungi / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: C107531:CRR1 protein, Metarhizium anisopliae; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; C071237:CreA protein, Aspergillus nidulans; D002244:Carbon; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; C093192:pr1 protein, Metarhizium anisopliae