scholarly journals DNA binding of the transcription activator protein MelR from Escherichia coli and its C-terminal domain

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 2692-2700 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Dna Binding ◽  
Transcription Activator ◽  
Activator Protein ◽  
Terminal Domain

scholarly journals DNA binding and DNA bending by the MelR transcription activator protein from Escherichia coli

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1685-1693 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Bourgerie ◽  
C. M. Michan ◽  
S. J. W. Busby ◽  
E. I. Hyde ◽  
M. S. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Dna Binding ◽  
Dna Bending ◽  
Transcription Activator ◽  
Activator Protein

scholarly journals Exploring the Amino Acid Residue Requirements of the RNA Polymerase (RNAP) α Subunit C-Terminal Domain for Productive Interaction between Spx and RNAP of Bacillus subtilis

2017 ◽  
Vol 199 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cierra A. Birch ◽  
Madison J. Davis ◽  
Lea Mbengi ◽  
Peter Zuber
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Bacillus Subtilis ◽  
Amino Acid ◽  
Dna Binding ◽  
Rna Polymerase ◽  
Α Subunit ◽  
Stress Induction ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Terminal Domain ◽  
Codon Substitution

ABSTRACT Bacillus subtilis Spx is a global transcriptional regulator that is conserved among Gram-positive bacteria, in which Spx is required for preventing oxidatively induced proteotoxicity. Upon stress induction, Spx engages RNA polymerase (RNAP) through interaction with the C-terminal domain of the rpoA-encoded RNAP α subunit (αCTD). Previous mutational analysis of rpoA revealed that substitutions of Y263 in αCTD severely impaired Spx-activated transcription. Attempts to substitute alanine for αCTD R261, R268, R289, E255, E298, and K294 were unsuccessful, suggesting that these residues are essential. To determine whether these RpoA residues were required for productive Spx-RNAP interaction, we ectopically expressed the putatively lethal rpoA mutant alleles in the rpoAY263C mutant, where “Y263C” indicates the amino acid change that results from mutation of the allele. By complementation analysis, we show that Spx-bound αCTD amino acid residues are not essential for Spx-activated transcription in vivo but that R261A, E298A, and E255A mutants confer a partial defect in NaCl-stress induction of Spx-controlled genes. In addition, strains expressing rpoAE255A are defective in disulfide stress resistance and produce RNAP having a reduced affinity for Spx. The E255 residue corresponds to Escherichia coli αD259, which has been implicated in αCTD-σ70 interaction (σ70 R603, corresponding to R362 of B. subtilis σA). However, the combined rpoAE255A and sigAR362A mutations have an additive negative effect on Spx-dependent expression, suggesting the residues' differing roles in Spx-activated transcription. Our findings suggest that, while αCTD is essential for Spx-activated transcription, Spx is the primary DNA-binding determinant of the Spx-αCTD complex. IMPORTANCE Though extensively studied in Escherichia coli, the role of αCTD in activator-stimulated transcription is largely uncharacterized in Bacillus subtilis. Here, we conduct phenotypic analyses of putatively lethal αCTD alanine codon substitution mutants to determine whether these residues function in specific DNA binding at the Spx-αCTD-DNA interface. Our findings suggest that multisubunit RNAP contact to Spx is optimal for activation while Spx fulfills the most stringent requirement of upstream promoter binding. Furthermore, several αCTD residues targeted for mutagenesis in this study are conserved among many bacterial species and thus insights on their function in other regulatory systems may be suggested herein.

scholarly journals gal4 transcription activator protein of yeast can function as a repressor in Escherichia coli.

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 3539-3542 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Paulmier ◽  
M. Yaniv ◽  
B. von Wilcken-Bergmann ◽  
B. Müller-Hill
Keyword(s):  
Escherichia Coli ◽  
Transcription Activator ◽  
Activator Protein
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