The trehalose operon of Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400

Res Microbiol. 2000 Dec;151(10):845-51. doi: 10.1016/s0923-2508(00)01151-7.

Abstract

The trehalose operon of Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 consists of treP, treA and treR. The gene treP codes for a putative enzyme II subunit of the phosphotransferase system that catalyzes the phosphorylation of trehalose together with its translocation across the cell membrane and treA encodes a putative phosphotrehalase, which hydrolyzes the incoming trehalose-6-phosphate into glucose and glucose-6-phosphate. Both genes are negatively regulated by TreR, a repressor of the FadR-GntR family of transcription regulators. The operon that is induced by trehalose present in the medium shows a high similarity both in the function of genes and in the regulation with the trehalose operon of Bacillus subtilis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Base Sequence
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Disaccharidases / genetics
  • Disaccharidases / metabolism
  • Genes, Bacterial*
  • Genes, Regulator
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutation
  • Operon
  • Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System / genetics
  • Pseudomonas fluorescens / enzymology
  • Pseudomonas fluorescens / genetics*
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Trehalose / genetics*
  • beta-Galactosidase / analysis
  • beta-Galactosidase / metabolism

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • TraR protein, Agrobacterium tumefaciens
  • Transcription Factors
  • Trehalose
  • Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System
  • phosphoenolpyruvate-trehalose phosphotransferase, bacteria
  • Disaccharidases
  • beta-Galactosidase
  • alpha, alpha-phosphotrehalase

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AF229829