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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 195, Issue 7, Pages 1381-1388Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.02060-12
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- Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-08ER15976]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-08ER15976] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Rhodopseudomonas palustris assimilates CO2 by the Calvin-Benson-Bassham (CBB) reductive pentose phosphate pathway. Most genes required for a functional CBB pathway are clustered into the cbb(I) and cbb(II) operons, with the cbbI operon subject to control by a LysR transcriptional activator, CbbR, encoded by cbbR, which is divergently transcribed from the cbbLS genes (encoding form I RubisCO) of the cbb(I) operon. Juxtaposed between the genes encoding CbbR and CbbLS are genes that encode a three-protein two-component system (CbbRRS system) that functions to modify the ability of CbbR to regulate cbbLS expression. Previous studies indicated that the response regulators, as well as various coinducers (effectors), specifically influence CbbR-promoter interactions. In the current study, it was shown via several experimental approaches that the response regulators and coinducers act synergistically on CbbR to influence cbbLS transcription. Synergistic effects on the formation of specific CbbR-DNA complexes were quantified using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) procedures. Gel mobility shift and DNA foot-print analyses further indicated structural changes in the DNA arising from the presence of response regulators and coinducer molecules binding to CbbR. Based on previous studies, and especially emphasized by the current investigation, it is clear that protein complexes influence promoter activity and the cbbLS transcription machinery.
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