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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2007, p. 3335-3347, Vol. 189, No. 9
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01745-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Transcriptional Regulation of the CO2-Concentrating Mechanism in a Euryhaline, Coastal Marine Cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002: Role of NdhR/CcmR{triangledown}

Fiona J. Woodger,1 Donald A. Bryant,2 and G. Dean Price1*

Molecular Plant Physiology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia,1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 168022

Received 13 November 2006/ Accepted 12 February 2007

Cyanobacterial photosynthesis occurs in radically diverse habitats and utilizes various forms of a CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM) featuring multiple inorganic carbon (Ci) transporters. Cyanobacteria from dynamic environments can transform CCM activity depending on Ci availability, and yet the molecular basis for this regulation is unclear, especially in coastal strains. LysR family transcription factors resembling the Calvin cycle regulator CbbR from proteobacteria have been implicated in the expression of Ci transporter genes in freshwater cyanobacteria. Our survey of related factors revealed a group of divergent CbbR-like sequences confined to freshwater and coastal or offshore cyanobacteria. Inactivation of the single gene (termed ccmR) from this variable cluster in the euryhaline (coastal) strain Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 led to constitutive expression of a high-affinity CCM. Derepression of HCO3– transporter gene transcription, including that of BicA, a recently discovered HCO3– transporter (G. D. Price et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:18228-18233, 2004), was observed. A unique CcmR-regulated operon containing bicA plus 9 open reading frames encoding likely Na+/H+ antiporters from the CPA1 and Mnh families was defined that is essential for maximal HCO3–-dependent oxygen evolution. The promoter region required for Ci-regulated transcription of this operon was defined. We propose that CcmR (and its associated regulon) represents a specialization for species inhabiting environments subject to fluctuating Ci concentrations.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Plant Physiology Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. Phone: (61) 2 61258423. Fax: (61) 2 61255075. E-mail: Dean.Price{at}anu.edu.au

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

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2007, p. 3335-3347, Vol. 189, No. 9
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01745-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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