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Journal of Bacteriology, October 1998, p. 5129-5134, Vol. 180, No. 19
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

hrcA, Encoding the Repressor of the groEL Genes in Streptomyces albus G, Is Associated with a Second dnaJ Gene

Cosette Grandvalet, Georges Rapoport, and Philippe Mazodier*

Unité de Biochimie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

Received 9 March 1998/Accepted 3 August 1998

Expression of the principal chaperones of the heat shock stimulon of Streptomyces albus G are under the negative control of different repressors. The dnaK operon is regulated by hspR, the last gene of the operon (dnaK-grpE-dnaJ-hspR). hsp18, encoding a member of the small heat shock protein family, is regulated by orfY, which is in the opposite orientation upstream of hsp18. The groES-groEL1 operon and the groEL2 gene are regulated differently. They present tandem copies of the CIRCE element found in the 5' region of many heat shock genes and shown to act in Bacillus subtilis as an operator for a repressor encoded by hrcA (hrc stands for heat regulation at CIRCE). We report the identification in S. albus of a new heat shock operon containing hrcA and dnaJ homologs. Disruption of hrcA increased the transcription of the groES-groEL1 operon and of the groEL2 gene. These features were lost when the mutant was complemented in trans by an intact copy of hrcA. Despite considerable accumulation of the GroE chaperones in the hrcA mutant, there was no effect on formation of the aerial mycelium and sporulation, indicating that neither hrcA nor the level of groE gene expression is directly involved in the regulation of Streptomyces morphological differentiation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité de Biochimie Microbienne, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Phone: 33-1 45 68 88 42. Fax: 33-1 45 68 89 38. E-mail: mazodier{at}pasteur.fr.

Journal of Bacteriology, October 1998, p. 5129-5134, Vol. 180, No. 19
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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