PMID:2551682
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Bölker, M and Kahmann, R (1989) The Escherichia coli regulatory protein OxyR discriminates between methylated and unmethylated states of the phage Mu mom promoter. EMBO J. 8:2403-10 |
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| Abstract |
Expression of the phage Mu mom gene is transcriptionally regulated by DNA methylation. Three GATC sites upstream of the mom promoter have to be methylated by the Escherichia coli deoxyadenosine methylase (Dam) to allow initiation of transcription. An E. coli dam strain was mutagenized with Tn5 in an attempt to isolate mutants which allow mom gene expression. Three independent Tn5 mutants were isolated, each mapped to a gene at 89.6 min which we designate momR. The wildtype gene was cloned and sequenced, it encodes a protein of 305 amino acids. The protein belongs to a group of related bacterial activators recently identified as the LysR family (Henikoff et al., 1988). MomR protein was overproduced and purified. Expression of momR is autoregulated; MomR binds to a 43 bp region upstream of its coding sequence. In the mom promoter MomR protects a 43 bp region containing the three GATC sites. Specific binding to these sequences was observed only with unmethylated DNA. Fortuitously, we learned that MomR is identical to OxyR, a regulatory protein responding to oxidative stress. We discuss the implications of this control for Mu development. |
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Amino Acid Sequence; Autoradiography; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacteriophage mu/genetics; Base Sequence; DNA Transposable Elements; DNA-Binding Proteins; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins; Gene Expression Regulation; Methylation; Methyltransferases/metabolism; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation; Operon; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Repressor Proteins/genetics; Restriction Mapping; Site-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific); Transcription Factors; Transcription, Genetic |
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