Cloning, nucleotide sequence, expression, and chromosomal location of ldh, the gene encoding L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase, from Lactococcus lactis.

AUTOR(ES)

Llanos, R M

RESUMO

A gene (designated ldh) that encodes fructose-1,6-bisphosphate-activated L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase was cloned from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis. Plasmids containing ldh conferred fructose-1,6-bisphosphate-activated L-(+)-lactate dehydrogenase activity on Escherichia coli cells. This activity was conferred only when a promoter had been introduced into the plasmid to express the cloned ldh. The nucleotide sequence of ldh predicted a chain length of 324 amino acids and a subunit molecular weight of 34,910 for the enzyme, after removal of the N-terminal methionine residue. Northern analyses of L. lactis subsp. lactis RNA showed that a 4.1-kb transcript hybridized strongly with ldh and that 1.2- and 1.1-kb transcripts hybridized to much lesser extents. Promoter- and terminator-cloning studies in which we used the vectors pGKV210 and pGKV259 in L. lactis subsp. lactis revealed that the 5' flanking DNA of ldh is devoid of transcription initiation signals and that transcription entering the 3' flanking DNA from either direction is efficiently terminated. These data and the data from Northern analyses led to the conclusion that ldh is expressed as the 3' gene of the 4.1-kb transcript and suggested that posttranscriptional processing yielded the shorter transcripts. We determined that ldh is located on the L. lactis subsp. lactis chromosome between coordinates 1.619 and 1.669 of the previously reported physical map (D. L. Tulloch, L. R. Finch, A. J. Hillier, and B. E. Davidson, J. Bacteriol. 173:2768-2775, 1991).

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