A common system controls the induction of very different genes. The class-A beta-lactamase of Proteus vulgaris and the enterobacterial class-C beta-lactamase.
Datz, M; Joris, Bernard; Azab, E Aet al.
1994 • In European Journal of Biochemistry, 226 (1), p. 149-57
[en] Among the Enterobacteriaceae, Proteus vulgaris is exceptional in the inducible production of a 29-kDa beta-lactamase (cefuroximase) with an unusually high activity towards the beta-lactamase-stable oximino-cephalosporins (e.g. cefuroxime and cefotaxime). Sequencing of the corresponding gene, cumA, showed that the derived CumA beta-lactamase belonged to the molecular class A. The structural gene was under the direct control of gene cumR, which was transcribed backwards and whose initiation codon was 165 bp away from that of the beta-lactamase gene. This resembled the arrangement of structural and regulator genes ampC and ampR of the 39-kDa molecular-class-C beta-lactamase AmpC present in many enterobacteria. Moreover, cloned genes ampD and ampG for negative modulation and signal transduction of AmpC beta-lactamase induction, respectively, were also able to restore constitutively CumA overproducing and non-inducible P. vulgaris mutants to the inducible, wild-type phenotype. The results indicate that controls of the induction phenomena are equivalent for the CumA and AmpC beta-lactamase. Very different structural genes can thus be under the control of identical systems.
Disciplines :
Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
Author, co-author :
Datz, M
Joris, Bernard ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Physiologie et génétique bactériennes
Azab, E A
Galleni, Moreno ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la vie > Macromolécules biologiques
Van Beeumen, J
Frère, Jean-Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'ingénierie des protéines
Martin, H H
Language :
English
Title :
A common system controls the induction of very different genes. The class-A beta-lactamase of Proteus vulgaris and the enterobacterial class-C beta-lactamase.
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