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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 43, 期 1, 页码 119-134出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02721.x
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- NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES [P40RR000200] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R29AI031645, R01AI031645] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM007544] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR00200] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 31645] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32 GM07544] Funding Source: Medline
Co-ordinate expression of many virulence genes in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae is under the direct control of the ToxT protein, including genes whose products are required for the biogenesis of the toxin-co-regulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin (CTX). This work examined interactions between ToxT and the promoters of ctx and tcpA genes. We found that a minimum of three direct repeats of the sequence TTTTGAT is required for ToxT-dependent activation of the ctx promoter, and that the region from -85 to -41 of the tcpA promoter contains elements that are responsive to ToxT-dependent activation. The role of H-NS in transcription of ctx and tcpA was also analysed. The level of activation of ctx-lacZ in an E. coli hns(-) strain was greatly increased even in the absence of ToxT, and was further enhanced in the presence of ToxT. In contrast, H-NS plays a lesser role in the regulation of the tcpA promoter. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays demonstrated that 6x His-tagged ToxT directly, and specifically, interacts with both the ctx and tcpA promoters. DNase I foot-printing analysis suggests that there may be two ToxT binding sites with different affinity in the ctx promoter and that ToxT binds to -84 to -41 of the tcpA promoter. In vitro transcription experiments demonstrated that ToxT alone is able to activate transcription from both promoters. We hypothesize that under conditions appropriate for ToxT-dependent gene expression, ToxT binds to AT-rich promoters that may have a specific secondary conformation, displaces H-NS and stimulates RNA polymerase resulting in transcription activation.
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