Role of TnrA in Nitrogen Source-Dependent Repression of Bacillus subtilis Glutamate Synthase Gene Expression

AUTOR(ES)

Belitsky, Boris R.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Synthesis of glutamate, the cell's major donor of nitrogen groups and principal anion, occupies a significant fraction of bacterial metabolism. In Bacillus subtilis, the gltAB operon, encoding glutamate synthase, requires a specific positive regulator, GltC, for its expression. In addition, the gltAB operon was shown to be repressed by TnrA, a regulator of several other genes of nitrogen metabolism and active under conditions of ammonium (nitrogen) limitation. TnrA was found to bind directly to a site immediately downstream of the gltAB promoter. As is true for other genes, the activity of TnrA at the gltAB promoter was antagonized by glutamine synthetase under certain growth conditions.

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