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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-2-21
pubmed:abstractText
Lactose metabolism is one of the most important areas of research on Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB). In rapidly acidifying industrial Lactococcus lactis strains, lactose is transported by a lactose-specific phosphotransferase system (PTS) encoded by a plasmid. However, an alternative lactose catabolic pathway was evidenced in the plasmid-cured, and thus initially lactose-negative L. lactis IL1403. We showed that in this strain the chromosomally-encoded cellobiose-specific PTS system comprising the celB, ptcB and ptcA genes is also able to transport lactose. By expression studies in the wild type IL1403 strain and IBB550, its ccpA-deficient derivative, we demonstrated that celB, ptcB and ptcA are tightly regulated by the general catabolite repression system, whereas celB additionally requires the presence of cellobiose to be fully induced. The comparison of expression levels of sugar catabolic genes indicated that the efficiency of CcpA-mediated catabolic repression depends on conservation of the cre sequence, and that in the case of perfect matching with the cre consensus, CcpA still drives a strong repression even under non-repressing conditions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1879-3460
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
145
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
186-94
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic characterization of the CcpA-dependent, cellobiose-specific PTS system comprising CelB, PtcB and PtcA that transports lactose in Lactococcus lactis IL1403.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawinskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland. tamara@ibb.waw.pl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't