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Kim, SJ, Han, YH, Kim, IH and Kim, HK (1999) Involvement of ArcA and Fnr in expression of Escherichia coli thiol peroxidase gene. IUBMB Life 48:215-8

Abstract

To explore the oxygen response regulators involved in thiol peroxidase gene (tpx) expression in Escherichia coli, we constructed a single-copy tpx-lacZ operon fusion and monitored tpx-lacZ expression in various genetic backgrounds. Expression of the tpx-lacZ fusion was increased 4-fold by aerobic growth. Anaerobic expression of tpx-lacZ in either (delta)arcA or delta(fnr) strains was 2.5-fold depressed compared with that of the wild-type strain. The results of immunoblotting experiments also demonstrated that ArcA and Fnr regulatory proteins repressed thiol peroxidase gene expression during anaerobic growth. Inspection of the tpx promoter region revealed putative binding sites for ArcA and Fnr. It thus appears that ArcA and Fnr function as repressors by blocking the binding of RNA polymerase to the tpx promoter in E. coli under anaerobic growth conditions.

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PubMed Online version:10.1080/713803496

Keywords

Anaerobiosis; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/metabolism; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Base Sequence; Binding Sites/genetics; DNA Primers/genetics; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins; Gene Expression; Genes, Bacterial; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/genetics; Iron-Sulfur Proteins/metabolism; Lac Operon; Molecular Sequence Data; Periplasmic Proteins; Peroxidases/genetics; Peroxidases/metabolism; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Repressor Proteins/genetics; Repressor Proteins/metabolism

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