Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Abstract
The transcriptional activator AppY is required for anaerobic and stationary-phase induction of the cyx-appA and hya operons of Escherichia coli, and expression of the appY gene itself is induced by these environmental conditions. The sequence of the appY gene and its promoter region is unusually AT rich. The nucleoid-associated protein H-NS has a DNA-binding specificity for intrinsically curved AT-rich DNA. Using a single-copy transcriptional appY-lacZ fusion, we have shown that appY gene expression is derepressed in hns mutants during aerobic exponential growth. In the hns mutant, growth phase and growth rate regulation under aerobic conditions was maintained, while ArcA-dependent anaerobic induction was greatly diminished. Judged by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, the appY promoter fragment exhibits the features characteristic of curved DNA. Gel retardation assays showed that purified H-NS protein bound with high affinity to two different segments of the appY promoter region. The role of H-NS in the AppY regulatory cascade is discussed and compared with its function in the regulatory cascades of the AppY homologs CfaD and VirF.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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