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Rv0494 is a starvation-inducible, auto-regulatory FadR-like regulator from Free

Abstract

Fatty acid metabolism plays an important role in the survival and pathogenesis of . Lipids are assumed to be the major source of energy during dormancy. Here, we report the characterization of a starvation-inducible, lipid-responsive transcriptional regulator, , divergently transcribed from the probable operon. The striking difference in the transcriptional regulatory apparatus between mycobacteria and other well-studied organisms, such as , is the organization of mycobacterial promoters. Mycobacterial promoters have diverse architectures and most of these promoters function inefficiently in In this study, we characterized the promoter elements of along with the sigma factors required for transcription initiation. promoter activity increased under nutrient starvation conditions and was transcribed via two promoters: the promoter proximal to the translational start site was active under standard growth conditions, whilst both promoters contributed to the increased activity seen during starvation, with the major contribution from the distal promoter. Furthermore, Rv0494 translation initiated at a codon located 9 bp downstream of the annotated start codon. Rv0494 bound to its upstream sequence to auto-regulate its own expression; this binding was responsive to long-chain fatty acyl-CoA molecules. We further report Rv0494-mediated transcriptional regulation of the gene – a probable transmembrane ATP-binding transporter encoding gene.

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Rv0494 is a starvation-inducible, auto-regulatory FadR-like regulator from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 161, 463 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000017
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