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We have recently cloned and characterized the inlC gene of Listeria monocytogenes which belongs to the listerial internalin multigene family and codes for a 30-kDa secreted protein containing five consecutive leucine-rich repeats. Here, we show that in L. monocytogenes inlC is located between the rplS gene (encoding the 50S ribosomal protein L19), and the infC gene (encoding the translation initiation factor 3). By direct and inverse polymerase chain reactions (PCR), we cloned a 5.4-kb region containing a homologous gene (termed i-inlC) from L. ivanovii, the other pathogenic member of the genus Listeria. In this microorganism, the i-inlC gene is preceded by another internalin gene, i-inlD, which seems to be specific for L. ivanovii, as this gene could not be detected in L. monocytogenes by Southern hybridization with an i-inlD gene probe. The i-inlD gene also encodes a small secretory internalin (i-InlD), which shares extended homology with (i-)InlC. Upstream of i-inlD are genes for 23S rRNA and 5S rRNA, and two tRNA genes [Asn-tDNA (GTT) and Thr-tDNA(GTT)]. The 3' terminus of the Thr-tRNA gene appears to be the site of an insertion of a genetic element including i-inlC and i-inlD. A putative transcriptional regulator gene, the product of which contains the TetR family signature, is located downstream of i-inlC. This chromosomal position of the two inlC genes on their respective chromosomes may be due to horizontal transfer of this gene. Transcription of i-inlC and i-inlD is strictly dependent on the transcriptional activator PrfA, which regulates transcription of most of the known virulence genes (including inlC) of L. monocytogenes and of L. ivanovii.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Jan
PMID:Sequence comparison of the chromosomal regions encompassing the internalin C genes (inlC) of Listeria monocytogenes and L. ivanovii. 949 Oct 77

The effect of the o2 mutation on protein expression during grain development was examined by two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-D PAGE) in seven different pairs of near-isogenic maize lines. The aim was to identify a set of proteins that are consistently affected in mutants, and which could be the products of new genes that are direct or indirect targets of the transcriptional activator O2. The abundance of 36 polypeptides was found to be modified in the seven backgrounds. Seventeen polypeptides were present in greater amounts in wild types than in mutants, and most of these were affected early. The remaining polypeptides were expressed at higher levels in mutants than in the wild types and were generally affected later in development, suggesting that they might be products of indirect targets of O2. Products of known direct target genes such as zeins, b-32 protein and a pyruvate orthophospate dikinase were included in the first set of polypeptides. Microsequencing of internal stretches of 15 amino acids was performed for thirteen polypeptides and homologies with sequences stored in databases were found for nine of them. Enzymes belonging to various metabolic pathways were tentatively identified, most of which were not previously known to be affected by the o2 mutation. These results confirm that the O2 gene could act as a connecting regulatory gene for different pathways of grain metabolism.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Feb
PMID:Characterization of novel proteins affected by the o2 mutation and expressed during maize endosperm development. 952 Feb 70

In Neurospora crassa, expression of the laccase gene is induced by treatment with the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide (CHX). This expression is mediated by CPC1, which acts as a general transcriptional activator when mycelia are treated with CHX or starved for any one of the amino acids. A laccase-derepressed mutant, lah-1, shows pleiotropic deficiencies in growth, hyphal morphology, CHX sensitivity, and production of protoperithecia. Moreover, in the lah-1 mutant, transcript levels of CHX-inducible genes, including lacc, tub-2, tef-1, and amino acid biosynthetic genes such as cpc-1, trp-3, and arg-12, are increased without exposure to CHX. All of the defects exhibited in the lah-1 mutant are suppressed by a mutation in the cpc-1 locus. These findings suggest that the cpc-1 mutation is epistatic to the lah-1 mutation and that the pleiotropic defects in the lah-1 mutant are attributable to constitutive expression of CPCI. These conclusions are supported by a developmental Northern blot analysis of the CHX-inducible genes. Based on these results, the lah-1 gene product appears to regulate expression of the cpc-1 gene negatively. Expression of the CHX-inducible genes was induced by CHX treatment in the lah-1 cpc-1 mutant, as well as in the cpc-1 mutant. This observation indicates that LAH1 is not a component of CHX-responsive pathway itself.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Jun
PMID:Pleiotropic deficiencies of the laccase-derepressed mutant lah-1 are caused by constitutively increased expression of the cross-pathway control gene cpc-1 in Neurospora crassa. 967 Oct 30

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe rec16-125 mutation reduces meiotic recombination, delays premeiotic DNA synthesis, and reduces the accumulation of some but not other rec gene transcripts. To elucidate the function of the Rec16 global meiotic regulator, we cloned and sequenced rec16. The data revealed that rec16 is identical to rep1, which was previously shown to encode a protein with a zinc-finger motif required for pre-meiotic DNA synthesis. Transcripts of rec16 (rep1) were strongly induced and subsequently degraded during meiosis. In a rec16 (rep1) deletion mutant, meiotic induction of the seven rec genes tested, which appear to be directly involved in meiotic recombination, was significantly reduced or essentially abolished. Deletion of 80% of the gene essentially abolished meiotic recombination, whereas strains deleted for approximately one-quarter of the gene, from either end, retained partial activity. The rec16-125 mutation strongly reduced recombination in the intervals tested on chromosomes I and III, a phenotype characteristic of mutations in rec genes, such as rec7, whose expression requires Rec16 (Rep1). These results show that Rec16 (Rep1) does not have the regional specificity of Rec10. We infer that Rec16 (Rep1) is a transcriptional activator that is required for meiotic replication and recombination because it plays a role in the transcriptional induction of the rec and other meiosis-specific genes.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Jun
PMID:Global control of meiotic recombination genes by Schizosaccharomyces pombe rec16 (rep1). 967 Oct 35

The E. coli nrd operon contains the genes encoding the two subunits of ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase. We found that the IciA protein binds specifically to the AT-rich upstream region of nrd promoter. In vivo overexpression of IciA increases the expression of nrd gene by four- to five-fold, suggesting that IciA functions as a transcriptional activator for the nrd gene.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Oct
PMID:Effect of IciA protein on the expression of the nrd gene encoding ribonucleoside diphosphate reductase in E. coli. 981 53

The product of the ACR1 gene is essential for growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae on ethanol or acetate as sole carbon source, and its expression is subject to glucose repression. It was previously shown that Acr1p is a membrane protein which specifically transports succinate and fumarate. Its suggested function is to shuttle cytosolic succinate from the glyoxylate cycle into the mitochondria in exchange for fumarate, an activity that is essential during gluconeogenic growth on C2 compounds. In this study we show that ACR1 is coregulated with the genes coding for the key enzymes of the glyoxylate cycle and gluconeogenesis: ICL1, MLS1 and PCK1, FBP1 respectively. We demonstrate that derepression of ACR1 is strictly dependent on the Zn2Cys6-type transcriptional activator Cat8p. A detailed deletion analysis of the ACR1 promoter revealed that 69% of the derepression of ACR1 is mediated by three cis-acting elements, located between positions -679 and -569 relative to the translational start, which show a high degree of similarity to the UAS/CSRE elements of PCK1, FBP1, ICL1 and MLS1. Our results, in conjunction with previous biochemical data, clearly identify Acr1p as an element which is directly involved in gluconeogenesis, functioning as the mitochondrial carrier which links the anaplerotic reactions of the glyoxylate cycle to the TCA cycle.
Mol Gen Genet 1998 Dec
PMID:The succinate/fumarate transporter Acr1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is part of the gluconeogenic pathway and its expression is regulated by Cat8p. 989 15

To determine whether similar regulatory mechanisms control the expression of glycolytic genes in yeast and human cells, we screened a human brain cDNA library for clones which complement the growth defect of the gcr2 mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and isolated hSGT1 (human suppressor of GCR two). Further work confirmed that the rescue of growth was associated with recovery of glycolytic enzyme activities, and that hSGT1 did not complement the growth defect of a gcr1 mutant. A hybrid protein comprising hSgt1p and the DNA-binding domain of Gal4p (GBD) activated a GAL1-lacZ reporter gene fusion, suggesting that the cloned gene may be a transcriptional activator. Two-hybrid experiments in yeast also indicate that hSgt1p interacts with Gcr1p. Northern analysis showed that hSGT1 is highly expressed in muscle and heart. Although the predicted amino acid sequence of hSgt1p does not display significant similarity to Gcr2p, we speculate that their functions may be analogous.
Mol Gen Genet 1999 Jan
PMID:A human gene, hSGT1, can substitute for GCR2, which encodes a general regulatory factor of glycolytic gene expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 992 32

Heat shock factor (hsf) is the transcriptional activator that governs the transcriptional response of eukaryotic cells to stressful conditions. The structure and regulation of hsf is highly conserved. We describe deletion mutations in hsf+ that alter the ability of Schizosaccharomyces pombe to respond to different stressful conditions. One mutation causes increased sensitivity to cadmium while maintaining near normal sensitivity to heat stress, while another mutation confers increased sensitivity to heat stress but retains normal sensitivity to cadmium. Despite the differential sensitivity of these two strains to cadmium and heat stress, the mutant hsf proteins in each strain were activated by both cadmium and heat. However, we found that these mutations differentially affected the ability of hsf to activate different promoters: one mutated hsf activated the ssp1+ gene better than the wis2+ gene following either stress, while the other mutated hsf activated wis2+ better than ssp1+. We propose that the differential ability of strains that contain these mutant hsfs to survive cadmium and heat stress is not caused by differences in activation of hsf, but is caused instead by differential abilities of the mutant hsfs to activate the appropriate sets of genes needed for survival.
Mol Gen Genet 1999 Feb
PMID:Mutations in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe heat shock factor that differentially affect responses to heat and cadmium stress. 1007 Dec 22

The IciA protein from Escherichia coli has been shown specifically to inhibit the in vitro initiation of chromosomal DNA replication. However, the in vivo role of IciA has not yet been established. In order to investigate the in vivo function of this protein, expression of the iciA gene was studied by monitoring the beta-galactosidase activity specified by an iciA promoter-lacZ fusion inserted into the chromosome. Among the conditions tested (carbon starvation, the stringent response, phosphate starvation, and the SOS response), only phosphate depletion increased iciA expression. Supplementation of phosphate-depleted cultures with inorganic phosphate reduced the beta-galactosidase activity to basal levels. Enhanced expression of iciA-lacZ was dependent upon the PhoB protein. PhoB is known to be a transcriptional activator of the Pho regulon, expression of which is activated during phosphate starvation. It was also found that the iciA promoter contains a PhoB protein-binding sequence, termed the Pho box, which is necessary for the activation of genes of the Pho regulon. These results suggest that the iciA gene is a member of the Pho regulon.
Mol Gen Genet 1999 Oct
PMID:PhoB-dependent transcriptional activation of the iciA gene during starvation for phosphate in Escherichia coli. 1058 31

Expression of the nuclear gene encoding the mitochondrial enzyme D-lactate ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase (D-LCR) was investigated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This gene (DLD1) was found to be subject to several regulatory controls at the transcriptional level: synthesis of DLD1 mRNA is repressed by glucose, is derepressed in ethanol or lactate and is heme dependent. We therefore examined the role of the heme-dependent transcriptional activator Hap1p and the carbon source-dependent Hap2/3/4/5 complex. We found that the Hap2/3/4/5 complex and Hap1p have additive effects on the activation of DLD1 transcription: the Hap2/3/4/5 complex is necessary for DLD1 derepression following a shift from fermentable to non-fermentable carbon sources, while the Hap1p effect was independent of the carbon sources tested. An upstream region required for expression and regulation of the DLD1 gene was identified. Within this region the binding sites for both the Hap2/3/4/5 complex and Hap1p were defined by gel retardation experiments and site-directed mutagenesis. Comparison between sequences recognized by Hap1p in different promoters showed that the Hap1p binding site in the DLD1 promoter diverges from the consensus Hap1p binding site.
Mol Gen Genet 1999 Dec
PMID:Regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae DLD1 gene encoding the mitochondrial protein D-lactate ferricytochrome c oxidoreductase by HAP1 and HAP2/3/4/5. 1062 45


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