Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.
Abstract
Previous studies of the structure and expression of the ribosome-releasing factor (RRF) cistron (frr) have suggested that an efficient promoter region is located in the RRF cistron. We report here on the nucleotide sequence and in vivo function of the RRF promoter. The transcriptional start site was determined by primer extension to be 58 bp upstream of the translational initiation codon of frr. The location of the RRF promoter region was confirmed by means of (i) deletion analysis of the 5' proximal sequences of frr fused to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase reporter gene, (ii) analysis of RRF produced in vivo from the deletion derivatives of frr cloned into pUC19, and (iii) gel retardation analysis with Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. The -35 and -10 regions were TTacCc and TATAcT, respectively. The strength of the RRF promoter was similar to that of the lac promoter, as determined by in vivo expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase activity. However, the RRF promoter was not affected by the intracellular cyclic AMP level despite the presence of a cyclic AMP receptor protein binding site downstream of the RRF promoter.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
28 articles.
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