Masuda Shinji, Bauer Carl E
Laboratory for Photobiology, RIKEN Photodynamics Research Center, Sendai 980-0845, Japan.
J Bacteriol. 2004 Jan;186(1):235-9. doi: 10.1128/JB.186.1.235-239.2004.
We report that a single relA/spoT-like gene exists on the Rhodobacter capsulatus chromosome, and its mutational loss is lethal. This gene could be mutated only under a mutational background of a null mutation in the nucleoid protein HvrA. This result suggests that there may be a direct link between HvrA-regulated promoters and the ppGpp-related stringent response.
我们报道,在荚膜红细菌染色体上存在一个单一的relA/spoT样基因,其突变缺失是致死性的。该基因仅在类核蛋白HvrA无效突变的突变背景下才能发生突变。这一结果表明,HvrA调控的启动子与ppGpp相关的严谨反应之间可能存在直接联系。