Role of Integration Host Factor in the Regulation of the GlnHp2 Promoter of Escherichia Coli

Overview

Journal Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Specialty Science

Date 1991 Mar 1

PMID 2000372

Citations 60

Authors

F Claverie-Martin

B MAGASANIK

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Abstract

The glnHPQ operon of Escherichia coli encodes components of the high-affinity glutamine transport system. One of the two promoters of this operon, glnHp2, is responsible for expression of the operon under nitrogen-limiting conditions. The general nitrogen regulatory protein (NRI) binds to two overlapping sites centered at -109 and -122 from the transcription start site and, when phosphorylated, activates transcription of glnHp2 by catalyzing isomerization of the closed sigma 54-RNA polymerase promoter complex to an open complex. The DNA-bending protein integration host factor (IHF) binds to a site immediately upstream of glnHp2 and enhances the activation of open complex formation by NRI phosphate. The NRI-binding sites can be moved several hundred base pairs further upstream without altering the ability of NRI phosphate to activate open complex formation. We propose that the IHF-induced bend can facilitate or obstruct the interaction between NRI phosphate and the closed complex depending on the relative positions of NRI phosphate and sigma 54-RNA polymerase on the DNA.

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