title: Metabolic signals that lead to control of CBB gene expression in Rhodobacter capsulatus.
abstract: Various mutant strains were used to examine the regulation and metabolic control of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) reductive pentose phosphate pathway in Rhodobacter capsulatus. Previously, a ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RubisCO)-deficient strain (strain SBI/II) was found to show enhanced levels of cbb(I) and cbb(II) promoter activities during photoheterotrophic growth in the presence of dimethyl sulfoxide. With this strain as the starting point, additional mutations were made in genes encoding phosphoribulokinase and transketolase and in the gene encoding the LysR-type transcriptional activator, CbbR(II). These strains revealed that a product generated by phosphoribulokinase was involved in control of CbbR-mediated cbb gene expression in SBI/II. Additionally, heterologous expression experiments indicated that Rhodobacter sphaeroides CbbR responded to the same metabolic signal in R. capsulatus SBI/II and mutant strain backgrounds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1292, USA.
authors.forename: Mary A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Tichi
authors.forename: F Robert
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Tabita
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D009154:Mutation; D010641:Phenotype; D016354:Rhodobacter capsulatus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C072714:cfxR protein, bacteria