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Appl Environ Microbiol, March 1998, p. 1147-1152, Vol. 64, No. 3
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Common Elements Regulating Gene Expression in Temperate and Lytic Bacteriophages of Lactococcus Speciesdagger

Shirley A. Walker, Carol S. Dombroski, and Todd R. Klaenhammer*

Department of Food Science, Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7624

Received 15 September 1997/Accepted 29 December 1997

A phage-inducible middle promoter (P15A10) from the lytic, lactococcal bacteriophage phi 31, a member of the P335 species, is located in an 888-base pair fragment near the right cohesive end. Sequence analysis revealed extensive homology (>95%) to the right cohesive ends of two temperate phages of the P335 species, phi r1t and phi LC3. Sequencing upstream and downstream of P15A10 showed that the high degree of homology between phi 31 and phi r1t continued beyond the phage promoter. With the exception of one extra open reading frame in phi 31, the sequences were highly homologous (95 to 98%) between nucleotides 13448 and 16320 of the published phi r1t sequence. By use of a beta -galactosidase (beta -Gal) gene under the control of a smaller, more tightly regulated region within the P15A10 promoter, P566-888, it was established that mitomycin C induction of a lactococcal strain harboring the prophage phi r1t induced the P566-888 promoter, as determined from an increase in beta -Gal activity. Hybridization of nine other lactococcal strains with 32P-labeled P566-888 showed that the Lactococcus lactis strains C10, ML8, and NCK203 harbored sequences homologous to that of the phage-inducible promoter. Mitomycin C induced the resident prophages in all these strains and concurrently induced the P566-888 promoter, as determined from an increase in beta -Gal activity. DNA restriction analysis revealed that the prophages in C10, ML8, and NCK203 had identical restriction patterns which were different from that of phi r1t. In addition, DNA sequencing showed that the promoter elements in the three phages were identical to each other and to P566-888 from the lytic phage phi 31. These results point to a conserved mechanism in the regulation of gene expression between the lytic phage phi 31 and at least two temperate bacteriophages and provide further evidence for a link in the evolution of certain temperate phages and lytic phages.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Food Science, Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center, Box 7624, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7624. Phone: (919) 515-2971. Fax: (919) 515-7124. E-mail: Klaenhammer{at}ncsu.edu.

dagger Paper no. FSR 97-34 of the Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh.




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