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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2003, p. 5109-5116, Vol. 185, No. 17
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5109-5116.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Regulation of Expression of Scaffoldin-Related Genes in Clostridium thermocellum

Tali W. Dror,1 Adi Rolider,1 Edward A. Bayer,2 Raphael Lamed,3 and Yuval Shoham1*

Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,1 Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,2 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel3

Received 14 April 2003/ Accepted 9 June 2003

Clostridium thermocellum produces an extracellular multienzyme complex, termed the cellulosome, that allows efficient solubilization of crystalline cellulose. The complex is organized around a large noncatalytic protein subunit, termed CipA or scaffoldin, and is found either free in the supernatant or cell bound. The binding of the complex to the cell is mediated by three cell surface anchoring proteins, OlpB, Orf2p, and SdbA, that interact with the CipA scaffoldin. The transcriptional level of the olpB, orf2, sdbA, and cipA genes was determined quantitatively by RNase protection assays in batch and continuous cultures, under carbon and nitrogen limitation. The mRNA level of olpB, orf2, and cipA varied with growth rate, reaching 40 to 60 transcripts per cell under carbon limitation at a low growth rate of 0.04 h-1 and 2 to 10 transcripts per cell at a growth rate of 0.35 h-1 in batch culture. The mRNA level of sdbA was about three transcripts per cell and was not influenced by growth rate. Primer extension analysis revealed two major transcriptional start sites, at -81 and -50 bp, upstream of the translational start site of the cipA gene. The potential promoters exhibited homology to the known sigma factors {sigma}A and {sigma}L ({sigma}54) of Bacillus subtilis. Transcription from the {sigma}L-like promoter was found under all growth conditions, whereas transcription from the {sigma}A-like promoter was significant only under carbon limitation. The overall expression level obtained in the primer extension analysis was in good agreement with the results of the RNase-protection assays.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Phone: 972-4-829-3072. Fax: 972-4-829-3399. E-mail: yshoham{at}tx.technion.ac.il.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2003, p. 5109-5116, Vol. 185, No. 17
0021-9193/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5109-5116.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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