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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2007, p. 3891-3901, Vol. 189, No. 10
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01739-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Transcription Activation Mediated by a Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein from Thermus thermophilus HB8{triangledown} ,§

Akeo Shinkai,1* Satoshi Kira,1,{dagger} Noriko Nakagawa,1,2 Aiko Kashihara,1,{ddagger} Seiki Kuramitsu,1,2 and Shigeyuki Yokoyama1,3,4

RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan,1 Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan,2 RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan,3 Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan4

Received 13 November 2006/ Accepted 6 March 2007

The extremely thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB8, which belongs to the phylum Deinococcus-Thermus, has an open reading frame encoding a protein belonging to the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP) family present in many bacteria. The protein named T. thermophilus CRP is highly homologous to the CRP family proteins from the phyla Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Cyanobacteria, and it forms a homodimer and interacts with cAMP. CRP mRNA and intracellular cAMP were detected in this strain, which did not drastically fluctuate during cultivation in a rich medium. The expression of several genes was altered upon disruption of the T. thermophilus CRP gene. We found six CRP-cAMP-dependent promoters in in vitro transcription assays involving DNA fragments containing the upstream regions of the genes exhibiting decreased expression in the CRP disruptant, indicating that the CRP is a transcriptional activator. The consensus T. thermophilus CRP-binding site predicted upon nucleotide sequence alignment is 5'-(C/T)NNG(G/T)(G/T)C(A/C)N(A/T)NNTCACAN(G/C)(G/C)-3'. This sequence is unique compared with the known consensus binding sequences of CRP family proteins. A putative –10 hexamer sequence resides at 18 to 19 bp downstream of the predicted T. thermophilus CRP-binding site. The CRP-regulated genes found in this study comprise clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-associated (cas) ones, and the genes of a putative transcriptional regulator, a protein containing the exonuclease III-like domain of DNA polymerase, a GCN5-related acetyltransferase homolog, and T. thermophilus-specific proteins of unknown function. These results suggest a role for cAMP signal transduction in T. thermophilus and imply the T. thermophilus CRP is a cAMP-responsive regulator.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Harima Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan. Phone: 81 791 58 2891. Fax: 81 791 58 2892. E-mail: ashinkai{at}spring8.or.jp

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 16 March 2007.

§ Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

{dagger} Present address: RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan.

{ddagger} Present address: Roche Diagnostics K.K., 2-6-1, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0014, Japan.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2007, p. 3891-3901, Vol. 189, No. 10
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01739-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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