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A Novel Two-Component System, GluR-GluK, Involved in Glutamate Sensing and Uptake in Streptomyces coelicolor.

Journal of Bacteriology 2017 September 16
Two-component systems (TCSs), the predominant signal transduction pathways employed by bacteria, play important roles in physiological metabolism in Streptomyces Here, a novel TCS, GluR-GluK (encoded by SCO5778-SCO5779 ), which is located divergently from the gluABCD operon encoding a glutamate uptake system, was identified as being involved in glutamate sensing and uptake as well as antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor Under the condition of minimal medium (MM) supplemented with different concentrations of glutamate, deletion of the gluR-gluK operon ( gluR-K ) resulted in enhanced actinorhodin (ACT) but reduced undecylprodigiosin (RED) and yellow type I polyketide (yCPK) production, suggesting that GluR-GluK plays a differential role in antibiotic biosynthesis. Furthermore, we found that the response regulator GluR directly promotes the expression of gluABCD under the culture condition of MM with a high concentration of glutamate (75 mM). Using the biolayer interferometry assay, we demonstrated that glutamate acts as the direct signal of the histidine kinase GluK. It was therefore suggested that upon sensing high concentrations of glutamate, GluR-GluK would be activated and thereby facilitate glutamate uptake by increasing gluABCD expression. Finally, we demonstrated that the role of GluR-GluK in antibiotic biosynthesis is independent of its function in glutamate uptake. Considering the wide distribution of the glutamate-sensing (GluR-GluK) and uptake (GluABCD) module in actinobacteria, it could be concluded that the GluR-GluK signal transduction pathway involved in secondary metabolism and glutamate uptake should be highly conserved in this bacterial phylum. IMPORTANCE In this study, a novel two-component system (TCS), GluR-GluK, was identified to be involved in glutamate sensing and uptake as well as antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A possible GluR-GluK working model was proposed. Upon sensing high glutamate concentrations (such as 75 mM), activated GluR-GluK could regulate both glutamate uptake and antibiotic biosynthesis. However, under a culture condition of MM supplemented with low concentrations of glutamate (such as 10 mM), although GluR-GluK is activated, its activity is sufficient only for the regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report describing a TCS signal transduction pathway for glutamate sensing and uptake in actinobacteria.

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