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ArticleJournal of bacteriology1997

A tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediate regulating transcription of a chloroaromatic biodegradative pathway: fumarate-mediated repression of the clcABD operon.

S M McFall, B Abraham, C G Narsolis, A M Chakrabarty

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

S M McFallDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago 60612, USA.
B Abraham
C G Narsolis
A M Chakrabarty
Illinois College · US

Funding

MICROBIAL DEGRADATION OF AGENT ORANGER01ES004050 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHAKRABARTY, ANANDA MOHAN · 1986 to 2004
$1.5M
NIEHS NIH HHS ES 04050-11
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ortho-cleavage pathways of catechol and 3-chlorocatechol are central catabolic pathways of Pseudomonas putida that convert aromatic and chloroaromatic compounds to tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle intermediates. They are encoded by the evolutionarily related catBCA and clcABD operons, respectively. Expression of the cat and clc operons requires the LysR-type transcriptional activators CatR and ClcR, respectively, and the inducer molecules cis,cis-muconate and 2-chloro-cis,cis-muconate, respectively. The regulation of the cat and clc promoters has been well studied, but the extent to which these operons are repressed by growth in TCA cycle intermediates has not been explored. We demonstrate by transcriptional fusion studies that the expression from the clc promoter is repressed when the cells are grown on succinate, citrate, or fumarate and that this repression is ClcR dependent and occurs at the transcriptional level. The presence of these organic acids did not affect the expression from the cat promoter. In vitro transcription assays demonstrate that the TCA cycle intermediate fumarate directly and specifically inhibits the formation of the clcA transcript. No such inhibition was observed when CatR was used as the activator on either the cat or clc template. Titration studies of fumarate and 2-chloromuconate show that the fumarate effect is concentration dependent and reversible, indicating that fumarate and 2-chloromuconate most probably compete for the same binding site on ClcR. This is an interesting example of the transcriptional regulation of a biodegradative pathway by the intracellular sensing of the state of the TCA cycle.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicBacterial ProteinsBiodegradation, EnvironmentalCatecholsChlorophenolsCitric Acid CycleEnzyme RepressionFumaratesMaleatesOperonPseudomonas putidaSorbic AcidTrans-ActivatorsTranscription, Genetic3-chlorocatecholBacterial ProteinscatecholCatecholsChlorophenolsClcR protein, bacteriaFumaratesfumaric acidMaleatesmaleic acidmuconic acidSorbic AcidTrans-Activators

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PMID9352923
PMCPMC179602
OpenAlexW2131417039

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