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In a recent study, we established that psychrophilic Pseudomonas syringae (Lz4W) requires trans-monounsaturated fatty acid for growth at higher temperatures (Kiran et al. in Extremophiles, 2004). It was also demonstrated that the cti gene was highly conserved and exhibited high sequence identity with cti of other Pseudomonas spp. (Kiran et al. in Extremophiles, 2004). Therefore it would be interesting to understand the expression of the cti gene so as to unravel the molecular basis of adaptation of microorganisms to high temperature. In the present study, the expression of cti was monitored by RT-PCR analysis during different growth stages and under conditions of high temperature and solvent stress in P. syringae. Results indicated that the cti gene is constitutively expressed during different stages of growth and the transcript level is unaltered even under conditions of temperature and solvent stress implying that the observed increase in trans-monounsaturated fatty acids (Kiran et al. in Extremophiles, 2004) is not under transcriptional control. A putative promoter present in the intergenic region of the metH and cti gene has also been characterized. The translation start site ATG, the Shine-Dalgarno sequence AGGA and the transcription start site “C” were also identified. These results provide evidence for the first time that the cti gene is constitutively expressed under normal conditions of growth and under conditions of temperature and solvent stress thus implying that the Cti enzyme is post-transcriptionally regulated.
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This work was supported by a grant from India–Japan Cooperative Science Programme of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, Government of Japan, to SS. MDK would like to thank the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, Government of India, for a Junior and Senior Research Fellowship.
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Kiran, M.D., Annapoorni, S., Suzuki, I. et al. Cis–trans isomerase gene in psychrophilic Pseudomonas syringae is constitutively expressed during growth and under conditions of temperature and solvent stress. Extremophiles 9, 117–125 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-005-0435-6
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