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. 1990 Oct;172(10):5655–5663. doi: 10.1128/jb.172.10.5655-5663.1990

Transcriptional analysis of the promoter region of the Pseudomonas putida branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase operon.

K T Madhusudhan 1, G Huang 1, G Burns 1, J R Sokatch 1
PMCID: PMC526879  PMID: 2211503

Abstract

Branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase is a multienzyme complex produced by Pseudomonas putida when it is grown in a minimal medium containing branched-chain amino acids. A 1.87-kilobase (kb) DNA fragment was cloned and sequenced which contained 0.24 kb of the E1 alpha structural gene and 1.6 kb of upstream DNA. There were 854 base pairs (bp) of noncoding DNA upstream of bkdA1, the first gene of the bkd operon, and 592 bp between the transcriptional and translational starts. The G + C content of the noncoding region was 56.7% compared with 65.2% for all the structural genes of the operon. A partial open reading frame was found on the strand opposite that of the bkd operon beginning at base 774. When the bkd promoter was cloned into the promoter probe vector pKT240, streptomycin resistance was obtained in P. putida but not Escherichia coli with the promoter in both orientations, which indicates either that the bkd promoter is bidirectional or that there are two promoters in this region. A series of ordered deletions on both sides of the proposed site of the start of transcription revealed that almost 700 bp upstream of the start of translation were required for expression. Streptomycin resistance was also obtained in an rpoN mutant of P. putida KT2440 containing constructs with the intact bkd promoter, indicating that the bkd operon does not require the rpoN sigma factor for expression. Another construct containing the bkd promoter, bkdA1, and bkdA2 in pKT240 was used to transform P. putida JS113, a mutant which was unable to produce the E1 subunits of the branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase. In this case, very high inducible expression of the bkd operon was obtained.

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