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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 20, 页码 6935-6952出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm837
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Type II restriction-modification (R-M) systems comprise a restriction endonuclease (REase) and a protective methyltransferase (MTase). After R-M genes enter a new cell, MTase must appear before REase or the chromosome will be cleaved. PvuII and some other R-M systems achieve this delay by cotranscribing the REase gene with the gene for an autogenous transcription activator (the controlling or 'C' protein C. PvuII). This study reveals, through in vivo titration, that C. PvuII is not only an activator but also a repressor for its own gene. In other systems, this type of circuit can result in oscillatory behavior. Despite the use of identical, symmetrical C protein-binding sequences (C-boxes) in the left and right operators, C. PvuII showed higher in vitro affinity for O-L than for O-R, implicating the spacer sequences in this difference. Mutational analysis associated the repression with OR, which overlaps the promoter -35 hexamer but is otherwise dispensable for activation. A nonrepressing mutant exhibited poor establishment in new cells. Comparing promoter-operator regions from PvuII and 29 R-M systems controlled by C proteins revealed that the most-highly conserved sequence is the tetranucleotide spacer separating O-L from O-R. Any changes in that spacer reduced the stability of C. PvuII-operator complexes and abolished activation.
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