title: Osmoregulation in Lactococcus lactis: BusR, a transcriptional repressor of the glycine betaine uptake system BusA.
abstract: The busA (opuA) locus of Lactococcus lactis encodes a glycine betaine uptake system. Transcription of busA is osmotically inducible and its induction after an osmotic stress is reduced in the presence of glycine betaine. Using a genetic screen in CLG802, an Escherichia coli strain carrying a lacZ transcriptional fusion expressed under the control of the busA promoter, we isolated a genomic fragment from the L. lactis subsp. cremoris strain MG1363, which represses transcription from busAp. The cloned locus responsible for this repression was identified as a gene present upstream from the busA operon, encoding a putative DNA binding protein. This gene was named busR. Electrophoretic mobility shift and footprinting experiments showed that BusR is able to bind a site that overlaps the busA promoter. Overexpression of busR in L. lactis reduced expression of busA. Its disruption led to increased and essentially constitutive transcription of busA at low osmolarity. Therefore, BusR is a major actor of the osmotic regulation of busA in L. lactis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaire, UMR 5100 CNRS-Université Toulouse III 118, route de Narbonne 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Romeo
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Obis
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bouvier
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guillot
authors.forename: Aude
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fourçans
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bouvier
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gutierrez
authors.forename: Michel-Yves
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Mistou
mesh_terms: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D001622:Betaine / Q000378:metabolism*; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D007763:Lac Operon; D013294:Lactococcus lactis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012097:Repressor Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014882:Water-Electrolyte Balance
chemical_list: D018528:ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C122133:BusAA protein, Lactococcus lactis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012097:Repressor Proteins; D001622:Betaine; D000251:Adenosine Triphosphatases