PMID:17307842
| Citation |
Turner, EC and Dorman, CJ (2007) H-NS antagonism in Shigella flexneri by VirB, a virulence gene transcription regulator that is closely related to plasmid partition factors. J. Bacteriol. 189:3403-13 |
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| Abstract |
The VirB protein of Shigella flexneri is a positive regulator of the major virulence operons of this enteroinvasive intracellular pathogen. VirB resembles no other transcription factor but is strongly homologous to plasmid partition proteins. We found that the binding of the VirB protein to the promoter region of the icsB virulence gene induced hypersensitivity to cleavage by DNase I over a region to which the H-NS repressor protein binds and completely abolished the protection of this sequence from DNase I by H-NS. In the absence of H-NS, the VirB protein had no additive effect on the ability of the icsB promoter to form an open transcription complex, indicating that VirB is not involved in the recruitment of RNA polymerase to the promoter or in open complex formation. Similarly, VirB did not stimulate promoter function in an in vitro transcription assay but acted as an antagonist of H-NS-mediated repression. A sequence located upstream of the icsB promoter and related to cis-acting elements involved in plasmid partitioning was required for promoter derepression by VirB. Alterations to one heptameric motif within this DNA sequence attenuated VirB binding and derepression of icsB transcription. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC1855880 Online version:10.1128/JB.01813-06 |
| Keywords |
Bacterial Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors; Binding Sites/genetics; DNA Footprinting; DNA, Bacterial/metabolism; DNA-Binding Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors; Deoxyribonuclease I/metabolism; Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Protein Binding; Shigella flexneri/genetics; Shigella flexneri/pathogenicity; Shigella flexneri/physiology; Transcription Factors/physiology; Transcription, Genetic |
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