Sf. Weng et al., TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE THREONINE DEHYDROGENASE GENE OF XANTHOMONAS-CAMPESTRIS, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 240(3), 1997, pp. 523-529
The nucleotide sequence has previously been determined for the Xanthom
onas campestris pv. campestris gene coding for threonine dehydrogenase
(tdh). Flanking this gene are the upstream region possessing promoter
activity and the downstream perfect inverted repeat having potential
to form a stem-loop structure which resembles a transcription terminat
or. In addition, Northern blot analysis suggested the transcript of th
is gene to be monocistronic. In the present study, the essential regio
n for promoter activity was narrowed down to a stretch of 57 bp which
still retained 84% of the promoter activity. The first nucleotide to b
e transcribed is the guanosine at 30 nt upstream from the proposed tdh
start codon. The putative terminator exhibited transcriptional termin
ation activity bidirectionally in both Escherichia coli and X. campest
ris. These observations indicate that the transcriptional structure of
X. campestris tdh is different from that of E. coli where tdh and kbl
are organized into the tdh operon. Furthermore, the expression of tdh
in X. campestris is repressed by leucine, a situation different from
that in E. coli where leucine induces the expression of tdh operon. (C
) 1997 Academic Press.