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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 191, Issue 24, Pages 7402-7409Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00994-09
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) [MCB-9875479, MCB-0919984, MCB-0619104]
- National Institutes of Health [GM0066786]
- CREES [CONS00775]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [0919984] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In Pantoea stewartii subsp.stewartii, two regulatory proteins are key to the process of cell-cell communication known as quorum sensing: the LuxI and LuxR homologues EsaI and EsaR. Most LuxR homologues function as activators of transcription in the presence of their cognate acylated homoserine lactone (AHL) signal. However, EsaR was initially found to function as a repressor in the absence of AHL. Previous studies demonstrated that, in the absence of AHL, EsaR retains the ability to function as a weak activator of the lux operon in recombinant Escherichia coli. Here it is shown that both the N-terminal and the C-terminal domains of EsaR are necessary for positive regulation. A site-directed mutagenesis study, guided by homology modeling to LuxR and TraR, has revealed three critical residues in EsaR that are involved in activation of RNA polymerase. In addition, a native EsaR-activated promoter has been identified, which controls expression of a putative regulatory sRNA in P. stewartii.
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