PMID:3897552

Citation	Dairi, T, Inokuchi, K, Mizuno, T and Mizushima, S (1985) Positive control of transcription initiation in Escherichia coli. A base substitution at the Pribnow box renders ompF expression independent of a positive regulator. J. Mol. Biol. 184:1-6
Abstract	Expression of the ompF gene coding for a major outer membrane protein of Escherichia coli is positively regulated by the product of the ompR gene, OmpR. Using an ompF-tet chimera gene, ompF promoter mutants that render the ompF expression independent of the OmpR protein were isolated. In all of the four mutants that were isolated separately, the first base of the Pribnow box was changed from A to T. The mutant promoter did not require the upstream domain of the -35 region that is required for the OmpR-dependent functioning of the wild-type promoter. It is concluded that the domain upstream from the -35 region plays a role in the positive regulation by the OmpR protein. A statistical survey of the E. coli promoter sequence revealed that almost all of the genes that do not require an activator protein for their expression possess T at the first position of the Pribnow box, while the position is occupied by other bases in almost all of the positively regulated genes. Based on these facts, the mechanism of positive regulation of the gene expression by an activator protein is discussed.
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Keywords	Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics; Base Sequence; DNA, Bacterial; Escherichia coli/genetics; Gene Expression Regulation; Genes, Bacterial; Mutation; Operon; Transcription, Genetic
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