title: A transcriptional activator, AoXlnR, controls the expression of genes encoding xylanolytic enzymes in Aspergillus oryzae.
abstract: By deletion across the promoter region of the xynF1 gene encoding the major Aspergillus oryzae xylanase, a 53-bp DNA fragment containing the XlnR binding sequence GGCTAAA as well as two similar sequences was shown to confer xylan inducibility on the gene. Complementary and genomic DNAs encoding the Aspergillus niger xlnR homologous gene, abbreviated AoxlnR, were cloned from A. oryzae and sequenced. AoXlnR comprised 971 amino acids with a zinc binuclear cluster domain at the N-terminal region and revealed 77.5% identity to the A. niger XlnR. Recombinant AoXlnR protein encompassing the zinc cluster region of the N-terminal part bound to both the consensus binding sequence and its cognate sequence, GGCTGA, with an approximately 10 times lower affinity. GGCTA/GA is more appropriate as the XlnR consensus binding sequence. Both sequences functioned independently in vivo in XlnR-mediating induction of the xynF1 gene. This was further confirmed by using an AoxlnR disruptant. Neither the xynF1 nor the xylA gene was expressed in the disruptant, suggesting that the xylan-inducible genes in A. oryzae may also be controlled in the same manner as described for A. niger.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Mechanisms and Functions, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan.
authors.forename: Junichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Marui
authors.forename: Akimitsu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mimura
authors.forename: Leo H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: de Graaff
authors.forename: Jaap
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Visser
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kitamoto
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Norihiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsukagoshi
mesh_terms: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001236:Aspergillus oryzae / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D017353:Gene Deletion; D015971:Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic; D015966:Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017385:Sequence Homology; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase; D014995:Xylosidases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D020121:5' Untranslated Regions; D005656:Fungal Proteins; D015534:Trans-Activators; C115443:XlnR protein, Aspergillus; D014995:Xylosidases; D043325:Xylan Endo-1,3-beta-Xylosidase