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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2007, p. 741-749, Vol. 189, No. 3
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00891-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Phosphoinositides Are Involved in Control of the Glucose-Dependent Growth Resumption That Follows the Transition Phase in Streptomyces lividans{triangledown}

H. Chouayekh,1 H. Nothaft,2 S. Delaunay,3 M. Linder,3 B. Payrastre,4 N. Seghezzi,5 F. Titgemeyer,2 and M. J. Virolle5*

Laboratoire d'Enzymes et de Métabolites des Procaryotes, Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax, Route de Sidi Mansour Km6, BP K, 3038 Sfax, Tunisia,1 Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 5, 91058 Erlangen, Germany,2 Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie et des Industries Alimentaires BP 172, 54505 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France,3 Département d'Oncogénèse et Signalisation dans les Cellules Hématopoiétiques, 31024 Toulouse, France,4 Laboratoire de Métabolisme Energétique des Streptomyces, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay, France5

Received 21 June 2006/ Accepted 10 November 2006

The interruption of the sblA gene of Streptomyces lividans was previously shown to lead to relief of glucose repression of the normally strongly glucose-repressed {alpha}-amylase gene. In addition to this relief, an early entry into stationary phase was observed when cells were grown in a minimal medium containing glucose as the main carbon source. In this study, we established that this mutant does not resume growth after the transition phase when cultured in the complex glucose-rich liquid medium R2YE and sporulates much earlier than the wild-type strain when plated on solid R2YE. These phenotypic differences, which were abolished when glucose was omitted from the R2YE medium, correlated with a reduced glucose uptake ability of the sblA mutant strain. sblA was shown to encode a bifunctional enzyme possessing phospholipase C-like and phosphoinositide phosphatase activities. The cleavage of phosphoinositides by SblA seems necessary to trigger the glucose-dependent renewed growth that follows the transition phase. The transient expression of sblA that takes place just before the transition phase is consistent with a regulatory role for this gene during the late stages of growth. The tight temporal control of sblA expression was shown to depend on two operator sites. One, located just upstream of the –35 promoter region, likely constitutes a repressor binding site. The other, located 170 bp downstream of the GTG sblA translational start codon, may be involved in the regulation of the degradation of the sblA transcript. This study suggests that phosphoinositides constitute important regulatory molecules in Streptomyces, as they do in eukaryotes.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR CNRS 8621, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay, France. Phone: 33 (0) 1 69 15 46 42. Fax: 33 (0) 1 69 15 46 29. E mail: marie-joelle.virolle{at}igmors.u-psud.fr.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 22 November 2006.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 2007, p. 741-749, Vol. 189, No. 3
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00891-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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