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Abstract

The proteins involved in the utilization of -arabinose are encoded by the metabolic operon and by the / divergent unit. Transcription from the operon, transport gene and regulatory gene is induced by -arabinose and negatively controlled by AraR. Additionally, expression of both the operon and the gene is regulated at the transcriptional level by glucose repression. Here, by transcriptional fusion analysis in different mutant backgrounds, it is shown that CcpA most probably complexed with HPr-Ser46-P plays the major role in carbon catabolite repression of the regulon by glucose and glycerol. Site-directed mutagenesis and deletion analysis indicate that two catabolite responsive elements (s) present in the operon ( and ) and one in the gene () are implicated in this mechanism. Furthermore, located between the promoter region of the operon and the gene, and placed 2 kb downstream within the gene are independently functional and both contribute to glucose repression. In Northern blot analysis, in the presence of glucose, a CcpA-dependent transcript consistent with a message stopping at was detected, suggesting that transcription ‘roadblocking’ of RNA polymerase elongation is the most likely mechanism operating in this system. Glucose exerts an additional repression of the regulon, which requires a functional .

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