Gene Review:
prgX - negative regulator
Enterococcus faecalis
- Structure of peptide sex pheromone receptor PrgX and PrgX/pheromone complexes and regulation of conjugation in Enterococcus faecalis. Shi, K., Brown, C.K., Gu, Z.Y., Kozlowicz, B.K., Dunny, G.M., Ohlendorf, D.H., Earhart, C.A. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2005)
- Sensitive detection of bacterial transcription initiation sites and differentiation from RNA processing sites in the pheromone-induced plasmid transfer system of Enterococcus faecalis. Bensing, B.A., Meyer, B.J., Dunny, G.M. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1996)
- Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-responsive protein PrgX: genetic separation of positive autoregulatory functions from those involved in negative regulation of conjugative plasmid transfer. Kozlowicz, B.K., Bae, T., Dunny, G.M. Mol. Microbiol. (2004)
- Characterization of cis-acting prgQ mutants: evidence for two distinct repression mechanisms by Qa RNA and PrgX protein in pheromone-inducible enterococcal plasmid pCF10. Bae, T., Kozlowicz, B.K., Dunny, G.M. Mol. Microbiol. (2004)
- Analysis of the Amino Acid Sequence Specificity Determinants of the Enterococcal cCF10 Sex Pheromone in Interactions with the Pheromone-Sensing Machinery. Fixen, K.R., Chandler, J.R., Le, T., Kozlowicz, B.K., Manias, D.A., Dunny, G.M. J. Bacteriol. (2007)
- Dominant-negative mutants of prgX: evidence for a role for PrgX dimerization in negative regulation of pheromone-inducible conjugation. Bae, T., Dunny, G.M. Mol. Microbiol. (2001)
- Two targets in pCF10 DNA for PrgX binding: their role in production of Qa and prgX mRNA and in regulation of pheromone-inducible conjugation. Bae, T., Kozlowicz, B., Dunny, G.M. J. Mol. Biol. (2002)
- Analysis of expression of prgX, a key negative regulator of the transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis pheromone-inducible plasmid pCF10. Bae, T., Clerc-Bardin, S., Dunny, G.M. J. Mol. Biol. (2000)
- Molecular and genetic analysis of a region of plasmid pCF10 containing positive control genes and structural genes encoding surface proteins involved in pheromone-inducible conjugation in Enterococcus faecalis. Kao, S.M., Olmsted, S.B., Viksnins, A.S., Gallo, J.C., Dunny, G.M. J. Bacteriol. (1991)
- Identification and characterization of the genes of Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pCF10 involved in replication and in negative control of pheromone-inducible conjugation. Hedberg, P.J., Leonard, B.A., Ruhfel, R.E., Dunny, G.M. Plasmid (1996)