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Studies on Clostridium acetobutylicum glnA promoters and antisense RNA
P J Janssen1, D T Jones, D R Woods
1Department of Microbiology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
Abstract:
The Clostridium acetobutylicum glnA gene has two transcript start sites under the control of promoters p1 and p2. Initiation of transcription was regulated by nitrogen and a downstream region was implicated in the regulation of transcript initiation by nitrogen in Escherichia coli. Putative antisense RNA was produced from a single downstream transcript start site under the control of p3. An up-promoter mutation in p3 resulted in lower levels of glutamine synthetase (GS) activity. Putative antisense RNA had a role in down-regulating GS expression but was not involved in regulation by nitrogen. Deletion of downstream inverted repeat sequences resulted in very low levels of GS activity.