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Abstract

The branched-chain protein amino acids isoleucine, valine and leucine can provide precursors for synthesis of complex polyketide secondary metabolites in streptomycetes; therefore the regulation of their own synthesis is of interest. DNA sequences upstream of , , , , and in A3(2) have been obtained in this laboratory or as part of the genome sequencing project. Upstream of and , typical features of classical attenuator systems can be discerned, in particular hypothetical short ORFs with runs of Ile/Val/Leu and Leu codons, respectively. No such features are apparent upstream of other genes or gene clusters present. All five upstream regions were fused to (encoding catechol dioxygenase, CO) as a reporter gene in the SCP2*-based low-copy-number vector pIJ2839. All wild-type regions showed strong depression of CO activity in the presence of all three branched-chain amino acids whether or not the attenuation features were present. By site-directed mutagenesis, the Ile/Val/Leu and Leu triplets in the putative attenuator peptides for and were replaced by ones for other amino acids. In the case of , this had no effect at all; for , the wild-type regulatory phenotype persisted in at least some experiments. It was concluded that (i) an unknown regulatory mechanism must be operating in the / system of A3(2) in place of classical attenuation; and (ii) it is unsafe to infer the functioning of a regulatory mechanism from sequence homologies alone.

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