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Abstract

The agarase gene () of A3(2) is transcribed from four promoters that are recognized by at least three, and probably four, different RNA polymerase holoenyzmes, each containing a different factor. Snuclease protection studies revealed that transcription from all four promoters is induced by the products of agar hydrolysis and strongly repressed by glucose. Mutants deficient in glucose kinase activity were defective in glucose repression of all four promoters. Mutants were isolated or identified in which transcription from all four promoters had become inducer-independent (i.e. constitutive), establishing the existence of a repressor gene for that does not appear to be located within 9 kb of the structural gene. The cloned gene was also constitutively expressed in the closely related strain , which does not normally make agarase and which presumably lacks the repressor gene. Glucose was still able to repress transcription even under conditions of constitutive expression, suggesting that glucose kinase does not mediate its effect via inducer exclusion. Relative differences in the use of the four promoters were not detected during different stages of growth of surface-grown cultures, although transcription appeared to peak during the production of aerial mycelium.

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