A‐factor as a microbial hormone that controls cellular differentiation and secondary metabolism in Streptomyces griseus
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The presence of A‐factor homologues in a wide variety of Streptomyces species and distantly related bacteria implies the generality of γ‐butyrolactones as chemical cellular signalling molecules in microorganisms.Abstract:
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A-factor, containing a γ-butyrolactone in its structure, is an autoregulatory factor or a‘microbiai hormone’controlling secondary metabolism and cellular differentiation in Streptomyces griseus. A-factor exerts its regulatory role by binding to a specific receptor protein which, in the absence of A-factor, acts as a repressor-type regulator for morphological and physiological differentiation, in the signal relay leading to streptomycin production in S. griseus, the A-factor signal is transferred from the A-factor receptor to the upstream activation sequence of a regulatory gene, strR, in the streptomycin biosynthetic gene cluster via an A-factor-dependent protein that serves as a transcription factor for strR. The StrR protein thus Induced appears to activate the transcription of other streptomycin-production genes. The presence of A-factor homologues in a wide variety of Streptomyces species and distantly related bacteria implies the generality of γ-butyrolactones as chemical cellular signalling molecules in microorganisms.read more
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