Nuclear DNA binding proteins which recognize the intergenic control region of penicillin biosynthetic genes

The biosynthesis of penicillin, a secondary metabolite produced by Penicillium chrysogenum, is subject to sophisticated genetic and metabolic regulation. The structural genes, pcbC and pcbAB, which encode two of the penicillin biosynthetic enzymes are separated by a 1.1 6-kb intergenic region and tr...

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Published inCurrent genetics Vol. 27; no. 4; p. 351
Main Authors Feng, B, Friedlin, E, Marzluf, G.A. (Ohio State Univ., Columbus (USA). Dept. of Biochemistry)
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.03.1995
Subjects
ADN
Base Sequence
BIOSINTESIS
BIOSYNTHESE
Chromatography, Affinity
Chromatography, Ion Exchange
DNA-Binding Proteins - chemistry
DNA-Binding Proteins - metabolism
Fungal Proteins - metabolism
GENE
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
GENES
Molecular Sequence Data
Oxidoreductases - genetics
PENICILINA
PENICILLINE
Penicillins - biosynthesis
PENICILLIUM
Penicillium chrysogenum - genetics
Penicillium chrysogenum - metabolism
Peptide Synthases - genetics
Promoter Regions, Genetic
PROTEINAS
PROTEINE
Transcription Factors - metabolism
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Summary:The biosynthesis of penicillin, a secondary metabolite produced by Penicillium chrysogenum, is subject to sophisticated genetic and metabolic regulation. The structural genes, pcbC and pcbAB, which encode two of the penicillin biosynthetic enzymes are separated by a 1.1 6-kb intergenic region and transcribed divergently from one another. To identify and characterize nuclear proteins which interact with the pcbAB-pcbC intergenic promoter region, crude and partially purified nuclear extracts were used in mobility shift and DNA footprinting assays. Multiple DNA-binding proteins appear to bind to different regions of this DNA segment. An abundant nuclear protein, nuclear factor A (NF-A), binds at a single site in the intergenic promoter region and recognizes an 8-bp sequence, GCCAAGCC. Penicillin production is sensitive to nitrogen catabolite repression. The global-acting nitrogen regulatory protein NIT2 of Neurospora crassa binds strongly to the intergenic promoter region of the pcbAB and pcbC genes at a single site that contains two closely spaced GATA sequences.
Bibliography:F30
97B5939
ISSN:0172-8083
1432-0983
DOI:10.1007/BF00352104