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Genetics and Molecular Biology |
Department of Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan1
Author for correspondence: Naotake Ogasawara. Tel: +81 743 72 5430. Fax: +81 743 72 5439. e-mail: nogasawa{at}bs.aist-nara.ac.jp
Essential two-component systems are now being identified in bacteria. The Bacillus subtilis yycF gene encoding a response regulator, and its orthologue in Staphylococcus aureus, were reported recently to be essential for cell growth, although genes under their control have yet to be identified. The essential nature of the yycF regulator gene and its cognate kinase gene, yycG, in B. subtilis was also noted during the course of construction of a knockout mutant bank of newly identified genes in the genome sequence project. It was found that yycG could be deleted in the presence of an active form of the YycF protein, thereby suggesting direct interaction between YycG and YycF. Production of mini-cells and reduction in cell length occurred when the YycF regulator was overproduced in B. subtilis. These observations led to the finding that YycF overproduction up-regulated the expression from the P1 promoter of the cell division operon, ftsAZ. In addition, the YycF protein binds to the P1 promoter region in vitro. These results clearly indicate that the essential two-component regulatory system encoded by yycF and yycG genes has the potential to modulate expression of the ftsAZ operon in B. subtilis.
Keywords: YycFG esssential two-component system, Bacillus subtilis, two-component regulatory system, ftsAZ gene
Abbreviations: DAPI, 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole;; DIG, digoxigenin
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