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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 68, 期 3, 页码 736-748出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06187.x
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM031030, R01 GM031030-26, GM31010] Funding Source: Medline
Infection of legumes by Rhizobium sp. NGR234 and subsequent development of nitrogen-fixing nodules are dependent on the coordinated actions of Nod factors, proteins secreted by a type III secretion system (T3SS) and modifications to surface polysaccharides. The production of these signal molecules is dependent on plant flavonoids which trigger a regulatory cascade controlled by the transcriptional activators NodD1, NodD2, SyrM2 and TtsI. TtsI is known to control the genes responsible for T3SS function and synthesis of a symbiotically important rhamnose-rich lipo-polysaccharide, most probably by binding to cis elements termed tts boxes. Eleven tts boxes were identified in the promoter regions of target genes on the symbiotic plasmid of NGR234. Expression profiles of lacZ fusions to these tts boxes showed that they are part of a TtsI-dependent regulon induced by plant-derived flavonoids. TtsI was purified and demonstrated to bind directly to two of these tts boxes. DNase I footprinting revealed that TtsI occupied not only the tts box consensus sequence, but also upstream and downstream regions in a concentration-dependent manner. Highly conserved bases of the consensus tts box were mutated and, although TtsI binding was still observed in vitro, gfp fusions were no longer transcribed in vivo. Random mutagenesis of a tts box-containing promoter revealed more nucleotides critical for transcriptional activity outside of the consensus.
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