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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2006, p. 6994-7002, Vol. 72, No. 11
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01518-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Transcriptional Regulation of the pdt Gene Cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri KC Involves an AraC/XylS Family Transcriptional Activator (PdtC) and the Cognate Siderophore Pyridine-2,6-Bis(Thiocarboxylic Acid){triangledown}

Sergio E. Morales and Thomas A. Lewis*

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405

Received 30 June 2006/ Accepted 15 August 2006

In order to gain an understanding of the molecular mechanisms dictating production of the siderophore and dechlorination agent pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylic acid) (PDTC), we have begun characterization of a gene found in the pdt gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri KC predicted to have a regulatory role. That gene product is an AraC family transcriptional activator, PdtC. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR and expression of transcriptional reporter fusions were used to assess a role for pdtC in the transcription of pdt genes. PdtC and an upstream, promoter-proximal DNA segment were required for wild-type levels of expression from the promoter of a predicted biosynthesis operon (PpdtF). At least two other transcriptional units within the pdt cluster were also dependent upon pdtC for expression at wild-type levels. The use of a heterologous, Pseudomonas putida host demonstrated that pdtC and an exogenously added siderophore were necessary and sufficient for expression from the pdtF promoter, i.e., none of the PDTC utilization genes within the pdt cluster were required for transcriptional signaling. Tests using the promoter of the pdtC gene in transcriptional reporter fusions indicated siderophore-dependent negative autoregulation similar to that seen with other AraC-type regulators of siderophore biosynthesis and utilization genes. The data increase the repertoire of siderophore systems known to be regulated by this type of transcriptional activator and have implications for PDTC signaling.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Dr., Burlington, VT 05405. Phone: (802) 656-1123. Fax: (802) 656-8749. E-mail: talewis{at}zoo.uvm.edu.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 25 August 2006.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2006, p. 6994-7002, Vol. 72, No. 11
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01518-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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