Renault P, Gaillardin C, Heslot H
Laboratoire de Génétique des Microorganismes, INA P-G/CBAI, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
J Bacteriol. 1989 Jun;171(6):3108-14. doi: 10.1128/jb.171.6.3108-3114.1989.
Malolactic fermentation is a secondary fermentation that many lactic acid bacteria can carry out when L-malate is present in the medium. The activation of the malolactic system in Lactococcus lactis is mediated by a locus we call mleR. Induction of the genes necessary to perform malolactic fermentation occurs only in bacteria with a functional copy of mleR. The mleR gene consists of one open reading frame capable of coding for a protein with a calculated molecular mass of 33,813 daltons. The amino acid sequence of the predicted MleR gene product is homologous to that of positive activators in gram-negative bacteria: LysR, IlvY gene products of Escherichia coli, MetR, CysB of Salmonella typhimurium, AmpR of Enterobacter cloacae, NodD of Rhizobium sp., and TrpI of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
苹果酸-乳酸发酵是一种二次发酵,当培养基中存在L-苹果酸时,许多乳酸菌都能进行这种发酵。乳酸乳球菌中苹果酸-乳酸系统的激活由一个我们称为mleR的基因座介导。进行苹果酸-乳酸发酵所需基因的诱导仅发生在具有功能性mleR拷贝的细菌中。mleR基因由一个开放阅读框组成,该开放阅读框能够编码一种计算分子量为33813道尔顿的蛋白质。预测的MleR基因产物的氨基酸序列与革兰氏阴性菌中的阳性激活剂同源:大肠杆菌的LysR、IlvY基因产物,鼠伤寒沙门氏菌的MetR、CysB,阴沟肠杆菌的AmpR,根瘤菌的NodD,以及铜绿假单胞菌的TrpI。