Affiliation:
1. Laboratoire des Interactions Plantes-Microorganismes, UMR 2594 INRA-CNRS, Chemin de Borde-Rouge, BP 27, 31326 Castanet-Tolosan Cedex, France
Abstract
The FixLJ two-component system ofSinorhizobium melilotiis a global regulator, turning on nitrogen-fixation genes in microaerobiosis. Up to now,nifAandfixKwere the only genes known to be directly regulated by FixJ. We used a genomic SELEX approach in order to isolate new FixJ targets in the genome. This led to the identification of 22 FixJ binding sites, including the known sites in thefixK1andfixK2promoters. FixJ binding sites are unevenly distributed among the three replicons constituting theS. melilotigenome: a majority are carried either by pSymA or by a short chromosomal region of non-chromosomal origin. Thus FixJ binding sites appear to be preferentially associated with the pSymA replicon, which carries thefixJgene. Functional analysis of FixJ targets led to the discovery of two new FixJ-regulated genes,smc03253andproB2. This FixJ-dependent regulation appears to be mediated by a duplication of the wholefixKpromoter region, including the beginning of thefixKgene. Similar duplications were previously reported for thenifHpromoter. By systematic comparison of all promoter regions we found 17 such duplications throughout the genome, indicating that promoter duplication is a common mechanism for the evolution of regulatory pathways inS. meliloti.
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