| Autor: |
Davidson, B. E., Saint Girons, I. |
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Molecular Microbiology; Nov1989, Vol. 3 Issue 11, p1639-1648, 10p |
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Site-directed oligonucleotide mutagenesis has been used to isolate thirty four new mutants in the regulatory region of the Escherichia coli K12 gene, metF. The mutants include single base pair (bp) substitutions and insertions, double bp substitutions and one 7bp deletion. The effects of these and another five previously described mutants on the transcriptional regulation of metF have been analysed by using a metF′-lac′Z fusion in a low copy-number plasmid. These data, and those obtained from DNAse protection studies using pure MetJ with wild-type and mutant metF operator DNA, show that the metF operator is comprised of five tandem 8bp repeat units that overlap the -10 region of the metF promoter. In the presence of the co-repressor S-adenosylmethionine, the DNAse protection studies yielded dissociation constants of 150nM and 300nM for the interaction of MetJ with repeat units 1 to 4 and repeat unit 5, respectively. In the absence of co-repressor, the dissociation constants obtained for these interactions are four to five times greater. It is proposed that regulation at the metF operator requires four molecules of MetJ dimer to bind to the five 8bp repeat units to form a tandem, overlapping array. Interactions between MetJ molecules make an essential contribution to the stability of this protein-DNA complex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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