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J Bacteriol. 1982 April; 150(1): 202-213

Complex glnA-glnL-glnG operon of Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT

The glnG gene product is both a positive regulator and a negative regulator of the expression of glnA, the structural gene for glutamine synthetase, as well as a positive regulator of the expression of a number of genes whose products are involved in the uptake and degradation of nitrogen-containing compounds. The regulation of beta-galactosidase in various strains containing a Mu d1 (lac bla) insertion within glnG leads to the following conclusions regarding the expression of this gene: (i) like the synthesis of glutamine synthetase, the synthesis of the glnG product is regulated in response to the nitrogen source; (ii) high-level expression of glnG under nitrogen-limiting growth conditions depends on transcription initiated at the glnA promoter; and (iii) there is a second, glnA-distal promoter for glnG, whose activity is negatively controlled by the glnG product. Thus, the glnG product regulates the synthesis of the glnG product at two distinct promoters (positively and negatively at the glnA promoter and negatively at the glnA-distal promoter). In addition, a high level of glnG product, corresponding to the level produced by initiation of transcription at the glnA promoter under nitrogen-limiting conditions, is necessary for activation of histidase synthesis. The lower level of glnG product originating from transcription initiated at the glnA-distal promoter is not sufficient to activate histidase synthesis, but is sufficient to activate fully and to repress glnA expression.

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