PMID:18067539
| Citation |
Pennetier, C, Domínguez-Ramírez, L and Plumbridge, J (2008) Different regions of Mlc and NagC, homologous transcriptional repressors controlling expression of the glucose and N-acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase systems in Escherichia coli, are required for inducer signal recognition. Mol. Microbiol. 67:364-77 |
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| Abstract |
Mlc and NagC are two homologous transcription factors which bind to similar DNA targets but for which the inducing signals and mechanisms of activation are very different. Displacing Mlc from its DNA binding sites necessitates its sequestration to the inner membrane via an interaction with PtsG (EIICB(Glc)), while NagC is displaced from its DNA targets by interacting with GlcNAc6P. We have isolated mutations in both proteins which prevent the inactivation of the repressors by growth on glucose or GlcNAc. These mutations are located in different and specific regions of each protein. For Mlc changes at the C-terminal make it a constitutive repressor and also prevent it from binding to EIIB(Glc). Mutations in NagC, at positions which form a structural motif resembling a glucose binding site in Mlc, produce permanently repressing forms of NagC, suggesting that this motif forms a GlcNAc6P binding site in NagC. The pattern of repression by chimeric proteins of NagC and Mlc confirms the importance of the C-terminal region of Mlc for both repression and inducer binding and demonstrate that the helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif is not sufficient to determine the specificity of interaction of the repressor with DNA. |
| Links |
PubMed Online version:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06041.x |
| Keywords |
Acetylglucosamine/analogs & derivatives; Acetylglucosamine/metabolism; Amino Acid Sequence; Electrophoretic Mobility Shift Assay; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism; Gene Dosage; Glucose/metabolism; Helix-Turn-Helix Motifs; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Operator Regions, Genetic; Phosphotransferases/genetics; Plasmids; Point Mutation; Protein Structure, Tertiary; Repressor Proteins/chemistry; Repressor Proteins/genetics; Repressor Proteins/metabolism; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Deletion; Signal Transduction; Transcription Factors/chemistry; Transcription Factors/genetics; Transcription Factors/metabolism; Transcription, Genetic |
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