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The transcriptional regulators RamA and RamB are involved in the regulation of glycogen synthesis in Free

Abstract

When grown in glucose-, fructose- or sucrose-containing medium, the amino acid producer transiently accumulates large amounts of glycogen (up to 10 % of its dry weight), whereas only a marginal amount of glycogen is formed during growth with acetate. This carbon-source-dependent regulation is at least partially due to transcriptional control of , encoding ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, the first enzyme of glycogen synthesis from glucose-1-phosphate. Here, we have analysed a possible regulatory role for the transcriptional regulators RamA and RamB on glycogen content of the cells and on control of expression of and of , which encodes the second enzyme of glycogen synthesis, glycogen synthase. Determination of the glycogen content of RamA- and RamB-deficient indicated that RamA and RamB influence glycogen synthesis positively and negatively, respectively. In accordance with the identification of putative RamA and RamB binding sites upstream of and , both regulators were found to bind specifically to the intergenic promoter region. Promoter activity assays in wild-type and RamA- and RamB-deficient strains of revealed that (i) RamA is a positive regulator of and , (ii) RamB is a negative regulator of and (iii) neither RamA nor RamB alone is responsible for the carbon-source-dependent regulation of glycogen synthesis in

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Keyword(s): CAT, chloramphenicol acetyltransferase , dw, dry weight , EMSA, electrophoretic mobility shift assay and WT, wild-type
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The transcriptional regulators RamA and RamB are involved in the regulation of glycogen synthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum
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