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BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 70, Issue 7, Pages 1688-1695Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60024
Keywords
transcription regulation; CpxA/CpxR; two-component system; copper response; Escherichia coli
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The copper stimulon in Escherichia coli consists of four regulons, the CueR-, CusS/CusR-, CpxA/CpxR-, and YedV/YedW regulons. E. coli mutants defective in cpxRA showed higher sensitivity to copper than the wild type. A total of 15 promoters were found to be induced in E. coli culture upon exposure to copper in a CpxA/ CpxR-dependent manner. After gel-shift and DNase I foot-printing analyses, a conserved tandem repeat of pentanucleotide sequence, GTAAA(N)(4-8)GTAAA, with a conserved A of 4-bp upstream of each pentamer, was identified to be the CpxR-binding site. The difference in the orientation and location of the CpxR box is discussed with respect to the regulation mechanism among CpxR-regulon genes.
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