title: Cloning, sequencing, and oxygen regulation of the Rhodobacter capsulatus alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase operon.
abstract: The Rhodobacter capsulatus sucA, sucB, and lpd genes, which encode the alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase (E1o), the dihydrolipoamide succinyltransferase (E2o), and the dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3) components of the alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGD), respectively, were cloned, sequenced, and used for regulatory analyses. The KGD enzymatic activity was greater in cells grown under aerobic, respiratory growth conditions than under anaerobic, photosynthetic conditions. Similarly, the sucA gene was transcribed differentially, leading to a greater accumulation of sucA mRNAs under respiratory growth conditions than under photosynthetic conditions, although differential rates of mRNA decay could also contribute to the different amounts of sucA mRNAs under these two growth conditions. The sucA promoter was located about 4 kb upstream of the 5' end of the sucA gene, and transcripts greater than 9.5 kb hybridized to a sucA probe, suggesting the presence of an operon that produces a polycistronic mRNA. Thus, these genes seem to be expressed as an unstable primary transcript, and we speculate that posttranscriptional processes control the stoichiometry of KGD proteins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Dastoor
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Forrest
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Beatty
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D007655:Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D016354:Rhodobacter capsulatus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D007655:Ketoglutarate Dehydrogenase Complex; D008058:Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase; D000217:Acyltransferases; C021515:dihydrolipoamide succinyltransferase; D010100:Oxygen