Abstract
Antibiotic biosynthesis is regulated by glucose in Pseudomonas fluorescens HV37a. Fusions between antibiotic biosynthetic operons (afu operons) and the Escherichia coli lac operon were isolated to evaluate the genetic determinants for the regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis. Four afu transcriptional units were defined, afuE, afuR, afuAB, and afuP. The afuE and afuR transcripts were promoted divergently at one locus and were catabolite induced, by 250-fold and 5-fold, respectively; the afuAB and afuP transcriptional units were not linked to the others and were not catabolite induced. Thus, regulation of afuE and afuR operon transcription is apparently the mechanism whereby glucose regulates antibiotic biosynthesis. Catabolite induction of the afuE and afuR transcriptional unit was dependent on the products of the afuA, afuB, and afuP genes. Expression of the afuE transcriptional unit was altered quantitatively in afuE mutants. Apparently the afuE transcriptional unit is regulated, at least in part, by its own gene products. Under inducing conditions, expression of the afuE, afuR, and afuP transcriptional units increased rapidly during a 6-h period.
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