title: A glgC gene essential only for the first of two spatially distinct phases of glycogen synthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
abstract: By using a PCR approach based on conserved regions of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases, a glgC gene was cloned from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). The deduced glgC gene product showed end-to-end relatedness to other bacterial ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylases. The glgC gene is about 1,000 kb from the leftmost chromosome end and is not closely linked to either of the two glgB genes of S. coelicolor, which encode glycogen branching enzymes active in different locations in differentiated colonies. Disruption of glgC eliminated only the first of two temporal peaks of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase activity and glycogen accumulation and prevented cytologically observable glycogen accumulation in the substrate mycelium of colonies (phase I), while glycogen deposition in young spore chains (phase II) remained readily detectable. The cloned glgC gene therefore encodes an ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase essential only for phase I (and it is therefore named glgCI). A second, phase II-specific, glgC gene should also exist in S. coelicolor, though it was not detected by hybridization analysis.
authors.affiliation: Area de Microbiología, Facultad de Medicina and Instituto Universitario de Biotecnología de Asturias, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain.
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Bruton
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Chater
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hardisson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D051599:Glucose-1-Phosphate Adenylyltransferase; D006003:Glycogen / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016296:Mutagenesis; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D013302:Streptomyces / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000648:ultrastructure
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D006003:Glycogen; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases; D051599:Glucose-1-Phosphate Adenylyltransferase