Protein-DNA Interactions in the Ori Region of the Mycobacterium Fortuitum Plasmid PAL5000

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1996 Dec 1

PMID 8955284

Citations 13

Authors

P Stolt

N G Stoker

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Abstract

Plasmid pAL5000 from Mycobacterium fortuitum encodes two proteins necessary for replication: RepA (307 amino acid residues) and RepB (119 residues). A single RNA species encoding these proteins was characterized, and its 5' end was defined. The proteins were expressed as maltose-binding protein fusions in Escherichia coli. The RepB protein was shown in vitro to bind specifically to a previously defined 435-bp region of pAL5000 containing the origin of replication (ori). The precise RepB binding sites were defined by DNase I footprinting experiments. RepB binds to two motifs in the ori region: a high-affinity site within its own promoter region, implying autoregulation of its expression, and a low-affinity site further upstream, presumably the origin of replication itself. The binding to the latter motif seems to occur on one DNA strand only. The high-affinity binding site contains several palindromic sequences. Gel retardation assays were performed with the different binding sites as templates, and the binding constant to each site was estimated from protein titrations. This is the first molecular dissection of mycobacterial DNA-binding proteins and their interactions with their targets.

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