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Journal of Bacteriology, July 1999, p. 4205-4215, Vol. 181, No. 14
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Structural and Functional Analyses of Photosynthetic Regulatory Genes regA and regB from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum, Roseobacter denitrificans, and Rhodobacter capsulatus

Shinji Masuda,1 Yumi Matsumoto,1 Kenji V. P. Nagashima,1 Keizo Shimada,1 Kazuhito Inoue,2 Carl E. Bauer,3 and Katsumi Matsuura1,*

Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397,1 and Department of Biological Sciences, Kanagawa University, Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, 259-1293,2 Japan, and Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 474053

Received 11 March 1999/Accepted 5 May 1999

Genes coding for putative RegA, RegB, and SenC homologues were identified and characterized in the purple nonsulfur photosynthetic bacteria Rhodovulum sulfidophilum and Roseobacter denitrificans, species that demonstrate weak or no oxygen repression of photosystem synthesis. This additional sequence information was then used to perform a comparative analysis with previously sequenced RegA, RegB, and SenC homologues obtained from Rhodobacter capsulatus and Rhodobacter sphaeroides. These are photosynthetic bacteria that exhibit a high level of oxygen repression of photosystem synthesis controlled by the RegA-RegB two-component regulatory system. The response regulator, RegA, exhibits a remarkable 78.7 to 84.2% overall sequence identity, with total conservation within a putative helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif. The RegB sensor kinase homologues also exhibit a high level of sequence conservation (55.9 to 61.5%) although these additional species give significantly different responses to oxygen. A Rhodovulum sulfidophilum mutant lacking regA or regB was constructed. These mutants produced smaller amounts of photopigments under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, indicating that the RegA-RegB regulon controls photosynthetic gene expression in this bacterium as it does as in Rhodobacter species. Rhodobacter capsulatus regA- or regB-deficient mutants recovered the synthesis of a photosynthetic apparatus that still retained regulation by oxygen tension when complemented with reg genes from Rhodovulum sulfidophilum and Roseobacter denitrificans. These results suggest that differential expression of photosynthetic genes in response to aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions is not the result of altered redox sensing by the sensor kinase protein, RegB.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan. Phone: 81-426-77-2582. Fax: 81-426-77-2559. E-mail: matsuura-katsumi{at}c.metro-u.ac.jp.


Journal of Bacteriology, July 1999, p. 4205-4215, Vol. 181, No. 14
0021-9193/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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