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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 49, Issue 4, Pages 2357-2374Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab060
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- Spanish Government (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad y Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion) [BIO2016-78571-P, PID2019-108541GB-I00, BFU2016-78606-P, PID2019-110630GB-I00, BIO2016-77639-P]
- Valencian Government [PROMETEO/2020/012]
- Ramon y Cajal contract from theMinistry of Economy and Competitiveness
- Spanish government
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RcsB is a transcriptional regulator in enteric bacteria that controls gene expression through binding to target gene promoters in an active dimeric conformation, with DNA binding potentially stabilizing an active conformation in unphosphorylated RcsB. Phosphorylation contributes to gene regulation and RcsB may play a role in controlling iron metabolism. The RcsB box for active dimeric binding to DNA was identified as TN(G/A)GAN(4)TC(T/C)NA, found in promoter, intergenic, and intragenic regions to facilitate both increased or decreased gene transcription.
RcsB is a transcriptional regulator that controls expression of numerous genes in enteric bacteria. RcsB accomplishes this role alone or in combination with auxiliary transcriptional factors independently or dependently of phosphorylation. To understand the mechanisms by which RcsB regulates such large number of genes, we performed structural studies as well as in vitro and in vivo functional studies with different RcsB variants. Our structural data reveal that RcsB binds promoters of target genes such as rprA and flhDC in a dimeric active conformation. In this state, the RcsB homodimer docks the DNA-binding domains into the major groove of the DNA, facilitating an initial weak read-out of the target sequence. Interestingly, comparative structural analyses also show that DNA binding may stabilize an active conformation in unphosphorylated RcsB. Furthermore, RNAseq performed in strains expressing wild-type or several RcsB variants provided new insights into the contribution of phosphorylation to gene regulation and assign a potential role of RcsB in controlling iron metabolism. Finally, we delimited the RcsB box for homodimeric active binding to DNA as the sequence TN(G/A)GAN(4)TC(T/C)NA. This RcsB box was found in promoter, intergenic and intragenic regions, facilitating both increased or decreased gene transcription.
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