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Expression Patterns of Bacillus subtilis Diacylglycerol Kinase Gene Induced by Physiological Stimuli

Bacillus subtilis dgk (diacylglycerol kinase) 유전자의 생리적 자극에 의한 유도발현

  • Lee, Mi-Young (Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Suh, Seok-Jong (Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee, Jin-Hyung (Dept.of Microbiology Biology College of Natural Science, Kyungpook Nagional University) ;
  • Song, Bang-Ho (Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Cuk (Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2002.03.01
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Abstract

Diacylglycerol kinase (DGK) phosphorylates the second messenger diacylglycerol (DAG) to phosphatidic acid and it may play a role in signal transduction in Escherichia coli as well as in eukaryotic cells. In addition, DGK is important for microorganisms to adapt to several physiological stimuli. In Bacillus subtilis, the effect of stress on dgk transcription was examined by northern hybridization. The high level of dgk transcription was induced against high osmolarity, low pH value and low temperature. Transcriptional analysis revealed that the dgk gene and dgk upstream locus (ORF2, ORF3 and ORF4) were transcribed as a polycistronic mRNA to form an approximately 2.5 kb transcript.

Diacylglycerol Kinase (DGK)는 E. coli 및 진핵세포에서의 신호전달에 관여하며, 또한 미생물에서 생리적 자극에 따라 다른 발현 양상을 보이는 것으로 밝혀져 있다. Bacillus subtilis에서 이 유전자에 대한 환경에서의 자극 신호들, 즉 pH 변화, 삼투압의 변화 및 온도의 변화에 따른 발현양상을 연구하였다. 이미 동정된 dgk locus의 KpnI-HindIII의 0.45 kb의 DNA fragment를 probe로 하여 Dot blot, Northern blot analysis를 통해 발현량을 조사해 본 결과 dgk 유전자는 pH변화, 삼투압의 변화 및 온도의 변화에 대응하여 발현되는 유전자임을 알 수 있었다. 특히 낮은 pH, 고 삼투압, 및 저온에서 dgk 유전자의 발현량이 많아짐을 확인 할 수 있었다. Northern hybridization에서 약 2.5kb의 mRNA가 관찰되었다. dgk gene의 ORF size는 약 0.4 kb로 관찰된 transcript size와는 일치하지 않았다. 따라서 Streptococcus mutans의 dgk gene과 마찬가지로 B. subtilis의 dgk 유전자도 polycistronic mRNA로 발현되는 것을 추정할 수 있었으며, 염색체상의 dgk gene에서 상류의 ORF2까지의 크기가 약 2.5 kb로 관찰된 mRNA size와 동일하였다. dgk gene 상류의 ORF2영역의 0.6 kb의 DNA fragment를 probe로 하여 northern blot hybridization을 수행한 결과, 2.5 kb의 mRNA가 관찰되었으며 발현되는 형태도 dgk probe를 이용한 결과와 동일하였다. 따라서 dgk gene은 상류부위의 ORF2 gene과 operon을 형성하여 polycistronic mRNA로 전사되는 것으로 판단된다.

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