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Abstract

A novel regulatory gene, which performs an essential function in sulfur metabolism, has been identified in and was designated (ysteine and ethionine regulator in ). The -disrupted strain (Δ) lost the ability to grow on minimal medium, and was identified as a methionine and cysteine double auxotroph. The mutant strain proved unable to convert cysteine to methionine (and vice versa), and lost the ability to assimilate and reduce sulfate to sulfide. In the Δ strain, the mRNAs of the methionine biosynthetic genes , and were significantly reduced, and the activities of the methionine biosynthetic enzymes cystathionine -synthase, -acetylhomoserine sulfhydrylase, and cystathionine -lyase were relatively low, thereby suggesting that the gene exerts a positive regulatory effect on methionine biosynthetic genes. In addition, with the exception of , reduced transcription levels of the sulfur-assimilatory genes and were noted in the -disrupted strain, which suggests that sulfur assimilation is also under the positive control of the gene. Furthermore, the expression of the gene itself was strongly induced via the addition of cysteine or methionine alone, but not the introduction of both amino acids together to the growth medium. In addition, the expression of the gene was enhanced in an -disrupted strain, which suggests that is under the negative control of McbR, which has been identified as a global regulator of sulfur metabolism. DNA binding of the purified CmaR protein to the promoter region of its target genes could be demonstrated . No metabolite effector was required for the protein to bind DNA. These results demonstrated that the gene of plays a role similar to but distinct from that of the functional homologue of .

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