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Two transcribing activities are involved in expression of the Streptomyces galactose operon.

Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104.

ABSTRACT

The Streptomyces galactose operon is transcribed from two independently regulated promoters: galP1, located at the 5' end of the operon and responsible for galactose-dependent transcription of the operon, and galP2, an internal constitutive promoter. We identified and partially separated two distinct transcribing activities involved in expression of this operon. Using RNA polymerase from Streptomyces lividans and Streptomyces coelicolor partially purified by chromatography on heparin-agarose and DNA-cellulose, we detected activities capable of initiating transcription in vitro specifically from either galP1 or galP2. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the activity for galP2 transcription is a holoenzyme species associated with the previously described sigma 28 protein (referred to here as sigma C). The galP1-transcribing activity is more difficult to evaluate. This activity may correspond to a holoenzyme species associated with sigma A (formerly sigma 35), although other possibilities are discussed. This would be the second reported example of a catabolite-controlled gene in Streptomyces species expressed from multiple promoters recognized by different holoenzyme forms. This may indicate that the involvement of RNA polymerase heterogeneity in gene expression in Streptomyces species is a more general strategy for regulation than the specialized gene expression seen in Escherichia coli.

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