TY - JOUR
T1 - Oligomeric interaction of the PapB transcriptional regulator with the upstream activating region of pili adhesin gene promoters in Escherichia coli
AU - Xia, Yan
AU - Forsman, Kristina
AU - Jass, Jana
AU - Uhlin, Bernt Eric
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PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Transcriptional regulation of the pap genes, which encode fimbrial adhesins in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, depends on an upstream activating region. This region contains binding sites for a transcription factor, PapB, which is a member of a growing family of putative regulatory proteins found in several virulence-associated fimbrial gene systems. To assess the nature of the PapB binding sites, we studied different naturally occurring variants and a number of in vitro constructed mutant binding sites. DNase I footprinting analysis and visualization of the PapB-DNA complex by atomic force microscopy showed that the protein occupied a DNA region of more than 50 bp. Purified PapB protein was shown to recognize a motif including a 9 bp repeat sequence containing T/A triplets at a conserved position. PapB binding was affected by distamycin, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the binding to DNA occurred through minor groove interaction. From these analyses and estimation of the relative number of PapB proteins per binding site, we suggest that PapB binds the DNA in an oligomeric fashion and may function as an architectural factor in the transcriptional control of adhesin expression.
AB - Transcriptional regulation of the pap genes, which encode fimbrial adhesins in uropathogenic Escherichia coli, depends on an upstream activating region. This region contains binding sites for a transcription factor, PapB, which is a member of a growing family of putative regulatory proteins found in several virulence-associated fimbrial gene systems. To assess the nature of the PapB binding sites, we studied different naturally occurring variants and a number of in vitro constructed mutant binding sites. DNase I footprinting analysis and visualization of the PapB-DNA complex by atomic force microscopy showed that the protein occupied a DNA region of more than 50 bp. Purified PapB protein was shown to recognize a motif including a 9 bp repeat sequence containing T/A triplets at a conserved position. PapB binding was affected by distamycin, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the binding to DNA occurred through minor groove interaction. From these analyses and estimation of the relative number of PapB proteins per binding site, we suggest that PapB binds the DNA in an oligomeric fashion and may function as an architectural factor in the transcriptional control of adhesin expression.
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U2 - 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01080.x
DO - 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01080.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 9822817
AN - SCOPUS:0031769014
SN - 0950-382X
VL - 30
SP - 513
EP - 523
JO - Molecular Microbiology
JF - Molecular Microbiology
IS - 3
ER -