大肠杆菌棉子糖操纵子

大肠杆菌（Ｅscherichia coli）棉子糖（raf）操纵子位于质粒,它编码能够使大肠杆菌吸收和利用三糖棉子糖的蛋白,即一个主动运输系统（Ｒaf透性酶）,α－关乳糖苷酶和蔗糖水解酶。raf操纵子包括启动子rafP,调节基因rafR,操纵基因rafO以及rafA,rafB,rafD三个结构基因。这个操纵子一个阻遏蛋白RafR负控制,同时以环腺苷－代谢降解物基因激活蛋白（cAMP-CAP）为中介的正调控也参与调节。     

大肠杆菌棉子糖操纵子α—半乳糖苷酶表达的调节控制

The alpha-galactosidase, coded for by the first structural gene rafA in the plasmid determined raf operon was an inducible enzyme. In contrast to lac or mel operon, raf operon has more strict structural specificity for inducers. The enzyme can be induced by melibiose and raffinose, or weakly by D-galactose, but not by structurally related sugars such as lactose, PNPG etc.. The alpha-galactosidase forming capacity as function of growth curve reached a single peak at the end of the logarithmic phase of the growth. The structure and regulation of raf operon is similar to those of lac operon. The repressormor-mediated negative control plays a major role in the regulation of raf operon, and cAMP-CAP mediated positive control is also involved in the regulation. When 0.4% glucose was added into the medium with other carbon sources, the expression of the enzyme was repressed by 2-3 fold. Transient catabolite repression has been observed neither in inducible nor constitutive alpha-galactosidase expression. Based on alpha-galactosidase assay, in mutant strains CA8306(cya) and CA8445 (cya, crp) the expression level of raf operon was only 9% and 2.5% of that in wild type strain respectively. The glucose effect or the repression in cya mutant can be abolished by 1-5 mmol cAMP. The constitutive alpha-galactosidase expression in cya and cry double mutant (CA8445) remains repressible by glucose, but irreversible by cAMP, suggesting cAMP-CAP complex is not the exclusive mediator of the catablite repression.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)     

大肠杆菌棉子糖操纵子a-半乳糖苷酶表达的调节控制

大肠杆菌棉子糖操纵子(raf)位于质粒,其第一结构基因rafA编码的a-半乳糖苷酶为诱导酶。Rat操纵子比乳糖操纵子(lac)或蜜二糖操纵子(mel)对诱导物有更严格的结构特异性。该酶被蜜二糖或棉子糖诱导,也被D-半乳糖微弱诱导,但不受乳糖、PNPG等结构相近糖所诱导。A-半乳糖苷酶的酶诱导形成能力在对数生长末期出现高峰。Rat 操纵子基因结构组成及调节与乳糖操纵子相似。以阻遏物为中介的负调控在raf操纵子调节中起主要作用,同时以环腺苷一代谢降解物基因激活蛋白(cAMP-CAP)为中介的正调控也参与调节。当0．4％葡萄糖加入到其它碳源培养基时,该酶表达水平下降至原活力的1／2—1／3。无论诱导或组成型酶的葡萄糖抑制均未见瞬时抑制。腺苷环化酶(cya)缺失或环腺苷受体蛋白(crP)和cya双缺陷菌株的酶表达则分别下降到原活力的9％和2．5％。Cya突变株或葡萄糖对raf操纵子表达的抑制可被cAMP解除,但cya和crP双缺陷菌株仍有葡萄糖抑制,而且这种抑制不为cAMP抵消,表明通过降低cAMp而影响cAMP-CAP复合体形成还不能解释代谢降解物抑制的全部机制。尚无证据说明吲哚类小分子化合物和低浓度尿素对raf操纵子表达的明显作用。     

操纵子概念

1961年 ,法国巴斯德研究所的Ｍｏｎｏｒｄ和Ｊａｃｏｂ提出了乳糖操纵子概念 ,后来人们在大肠杆菌中又陆续发现了色氨酸操纵子、组氨酸操纵子、半乳糖操纵子、阿拉伯糖操纵子等多种操纵子 ,从而不断的充实和完善了被誉为生命第三原理的基因调控理论 ,在这个理论中提出的操纵子概念也被人们普遍接受和证实。在生物学、尤其在遗传学教科书中经常出现操纵子这一专业名词 ,但由于各种原因 ,在不同的教科书中对此名词的定义不相同 ,各个学校教遗传学课程的老师对此概念的理解和解释也不一致 ,如在每年生物学专业的考研试卷中此概念出现频率较高 ,…     

真核生物的操纵子

真核生物的操纵子关键词真核生物,线虫,操纵子人们已知,细菌基因是组成操纵子并转录成多顺反子ｍＲＮＡ的,真核生物基因则受各别调控并转录成单顺反子ｍＲＮＡ。但ＴｏｍＢｌｕｍｅｎｔｈａｌ领导的研究组于１９９３年宣称,线虫Ｃａｅｎｅｒｈａｔｄｉｔｉｓｅｌｅｇ...     

色氨酸操纵子研究进展

色氨酸只能由微生物和植物合成。催化色氨酸分支途径的酶由色氨酸操纵子编码。生物体内色氨酸合成受到严格调控,色氨酸操纵子发挥重要作用。本文综述色氨酸代谢途径及其调节,并对途径工程在色氨酸操纵子改造中的应用进行回顾。     

色氨酸操纵子研究进展

色氨酸只能由微生物和植物合成。催化色氨酸分支途径的酶由色氨酸操纵子编码。生物体内色氨酸合成受到严格调控,色氨酸操纵子发挥重要作用。本文综述色氨酸代谢途径及其调节,并对途径工程在色氨酸操纵子改造中的应用进行回顾。     

大肠杆菌苏氨酸操纵子的体内克隆和诱变

报道了产1.2%大肠杆菌菌株的选育、野生型苏氨酸操纵子的体内克隆、体外再克隆、再克隆的体外诱变以及苏氨酸克隆pTHR12-9-1的获得.还研究了产酸克隆对产酸受体产苏氨酸的影响.发现pTHR12-9-1对低产菌有增产效应,对高产菌则相反;并对此现象作了讨论.     

基于rhaSR嵌合操纵子的构建及其在大肠杆菌中表达的研究

通过PCR等重组DNA技术,构建了含rhaSR启动子表达调控元件、RhaR基因、报告基因gst(谷胱甘肽-S-转移酶)的两个嵌合操纵子,并插入大肠杆菌表达载体pALEX中构成pALEX-PR1和pALEX-PR2。其中pALEX-PR2的RhaR基因上游为原有的SD序列,而pALEX-PR1的RhaR基因上游则插入了增强的SD序列。把这两个重组表达质粒分别转入大肠杆菌BL21(DE3)中,报告基因gst能够在L-鼠李糖诱导下表达,其表达量是非诱导条件下的4～5倍,且pALEX-PR1的表达量是pALEX-PR2的3.14倍。以上结果表明,gst的表达既受L-鼠李糖诱导,同时又受RhaR的正调控。SDS-PAGE结果显示,GST占大肠杆菌培养物总可溶蛋白的5.41%(W/W),平均1L培养物可获得3.0mg纯化的GST。酶活性分析表明,所构建的嵌合操纵子表达的GST保持了正确的构型且具有很高的活性。     

细菌中2-甲基柠檬酸循环研究进展

2-甲基柠檬酸循环广泛分布于细菌中,参与丙酸或丙酰-CoA的分解代谢。我们一直致力于微生物代谢调控方面的研究,并以苏云金芽胞杆菌为研究对象在2-甲基柠檬酸循环的代谢调控及生理功能方面取得了新的进展。本文将从2-甲基柠檬酸循环关键酶基因的组成、关键酶基因的转录调控和该循环参与的生理功能3个方面介绍细菌中2-甲基柠檬酸循环的研究进展。同时,对该循环研究中存在的相关科学问题和未来的研究重点作简要评述,并对该循环关键酶作为药物靶标在病原菌感染防治方面的应用进行展望。     

The 50th anniversary of the publication of the operon theory in the Journal of Molecular Biology: past, present and future

A series of eight review articles that appear in the present issue of the Journal of Molecular Biology celebrates the 50th anniversary for the landmark publication of François Jacob and Jacques Monod entitled “Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms in the Synthesis of Proteins”. In this publication, the authors presented a model for the regulation of gene expression deduced from genetic and biochemical studies. They proposed that a new class of genes, regulatory genes, would code for repressors that bind to operator sequences upstream of operons consisting of a group of catabolic or biosynthetic genes with related functions. Binding is controlled by small metabolites, substrates or end products. The repressors control the transmission of information from genes to mRNA that is translated into proteins. The present review articles demonstrate how this publication influenced our thinking and how it stimulated the studies on the regulation of gene expression all the way to present day epigenetics and systems biology.     

Expression,purification and functional characterization of AmiA of acetamidase operon of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Regulation of gene expression is one of the mechanisms of virulence in pathogenic organisms. In this context, we would like to understand the gene regulation of acetamidase enzyme of Mycobacterium smegmatis, which is the first reported inducible enzyme in mycobacteria. The acetamidase is highly inducible and the expression of this enzyme is increased 100-fold when the substrate acetamide is added. The acetamidase structural gene (amiE) is found immediately downstream of three predicted open reading frames (ORFs). Three of these genes along with a divergently expressed ORF are predicted to form an operon and involved in the regulation of acetamidase enzyme. Here we report expression, purification and functional characterization of AmiA which is one of these predicted ORFs. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that AmiA binds to the region between the amiA and amiD near the predicted promoter (P2). Over-expression of AmiA significantly lowered the expression of acetamidase compared to the wild type as demonstrated by qRT-PCR and SDS-PAGE. We conclude that AmiA binds near P2 promoter and acts as a repressor in the regulation of acetamidase operon. The described work is a further step forward toward broadening the knowledge on understanding of the complex gene regulatory mechanism of Mycobacterium sp.     

霍乱毒素A基因内部翻译调控元件具有翻译起始功能

通过大肠杆菌体外转录－体外翻译系统,证明霍乱毒素Ａ基因内部的翻译调控元件具有翻译起始功能,且其翻译起始效率较ｃｔｘＡ基因高得多,当ｃｔｘＡ的起始密码突变时,从该元件起始的翻译效率下降,说明基因内翻译起以ｃｔｘＡ翻译起始的调控。结果进一步证实了霍乱毒素Ａ、Ｂ亚工比例表达调控的翻译弱化－翻译偶联机理。     

AB5肠毒素A、B亚基比例表达调控机理的研究

霍乱毒素（ＣＴ）及大肠杆菌势不稳定甩的毒素（ＬＴ）的Ｂ亚基基因的表达水平是Ａ亚基的５￣７倍,研究发现Ａ基因内部存在着１个８０ｂｐ长的翻译控区,含有３个翻译起始序列（ＴＩＲ）,其第２个翻译起始序列的终止密码与第３个翻译起始序列的起始序列的起始密码重叠,因而形成翻译偶联,继续翻译至Ａ基因的终止密码。将ＴＩＲ３的超始密码ＡＴＧ突变为ＡＴＣ后ＴＩＲ２及ＴＩＲ３失去功能,这时下游报告基因（类似于ｃｔｘＡ、Ｂ     

The operon as paradigm: normal science and the beginning of biological complexity

The papers from the Jacob and Monod groups that presented the operon model and repressor control of gene expression provided a paradigm that opened up the field of gene regulation. Following the set of papers published between 1958 and 1961, there ensued almost immediately a period of “normal science” as Thomas Kuhn has defined it. Most researchers applied the repressor model to their own systems. I suggest a number of factors that were responsible for the rapid acceptance of the Jacob-Monod model and inhibited suggestions for alternative mechanisms of regulation. Nevertheless, I argue that this adherence to the paradigm, including specifically control by repressors, may well have been necessary for the field to progress. Ultimately, the evolution of this field of study was to reveal the unexpected complexity to genetic regulation.