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Regulation of vanillate and syringate catabolism by a MarR-type transcriptional regulator DesR in Sphingobium sp. SYK-6

生物統合工学専攻 D3 荒木 拓馬(政井・上村グループ)

 リグニンの生分解において重要な中間体であるバニリン酸(VA)シリンガ酸(SA)の分解に関わる、Sphingobium sp. SYK-6株の 酵素遺伝子の転写制御システムを明らかにしました。

発表雑誌

雑誌名:Scientific Reports
タイトル:Regulation of vanillate and syringate catabolism by a MarR-type transcriptional regulator DesR in Sphingobium sp. SYK-6.
著者:Araki T, Umeda S, Kamimura N, Kasai D, Kumano S, Abe T, Kawazu C, Otsuka Y, Nakamura M, Katayama Y, Fukuda M, Masai E.
論文URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31792252

英語要旨
Vanillate and syringate are major intermediate metabolites generated during the microbial degradation of lignin. In Sphingobium sp. SYK-6, vanillate is O demethylated to protocatechuate by LigM; protocatechuate is then catabolized via the protocatechuate 4,5-cleavage pathway. Syringate is O demethylated to gallate by consecutive reactions catalyzed by DesA and LigM, and then gallate is subjected to ring cleavage by DesB. Here, we investigated the transcriptional regulation of desA, ligM, and desB involved in vanillate and syringate catabolism. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR analyses indicated that the transcription of these genes was induced 5.8-37-fold in the presence of vanillate and syringate. A MarR-type transcriptional regulator, SLG_12870 (desR), was identified as the gene whose product bound to the desB promoter region. Analysis of a desR mutant indicated that the transcription of desB, ligM, and desR is negatively regulated by DesR. Purified DesR bound to the upstream regions of desB, ligM, and desR, and the inverted repeat sequences similar to each other in these regions were suggested to be essential for DNA binding of DesR. Vanillate and syringate inhibited DNA binding of DesR, indicating that these compounds are effector molecules of DesR. The transcription of desA was found to be regulated by an as-yet unidentified regulator.

関連リンク:微生物代謝工学研究室(政井・上村研)