Negative autoregulation of cysB in Salmonella typhimurium: in vitro interactions of CysB protein with the cysB promoter.
CysB protein positively regulates genes of the Salmonella typhimurium cysteine regulon and negatively autoregulates cysB. The cysB promoter was characterized by primer extension of cellular RNA, which gave products identifying a major in vivo transcription start site located 95 bp upstream of the cysB start codon and two minor sites located 9 and 10 bp downstream of the major site. Gel shift binding studies and DNase I footprinting experiments showed that CysB protein binds to the cysB promoter from position -10 to +36 relative to the major transcription start site. We have designated this binding site CBS-B. CysB protein inhibited transcription initiation at the cysB promoter in an in vitro runoff assay, indicating that cysB is negatively autoregulated by the binding of CysB protein to the cysB promoter, where it acts as a repressor. N-Acetyl-L-serine, an inducer of the cysteine regulon, inhibited the binding of CysB protein to the cysB promoter and partially reversed the ability of CysB protein to inhibit transcription initiation. These effects are in contrast to those observed in studies of positively regulated cys promoters, in which N-acetyl-L-serine stimulates binding and causes CysB protein to activate transcription initiation.[1]References
- Negative autoregulation of cysB in Salmonella typhimurium: in vitro interactions of CysB protein with the cysB promoter. Ostrowski, J., Kredich, N.M. J. Bacteriol. (1991) [Pubmed]
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