Dimerization is essential for DNA binding and repression by the ArsR metalloregulatory protein of Escherichia coli.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
C Xu, B P Rosen

Abstract

Arsenical resistance (ars) operons produce resistance to trivalent and pentavalent salts of the metalloids arsenic and antimony in cells of Escherichia coli. The first gene in the operon, arsR, was previously shown to encode a homodimeric trans-acting metalloregulatory repressor protein. Dimerization of ArsR was investigated using the yeast two-hybrid system in which the ArsR protein was fused to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GAL4 DNA-binding domain and GAL4 activation domain to produce chimeric proteins. Transcriptional activation of lacZ reporter indicated that dimerization of the ArsR is stable in yeast. The results indicated that residues 1-8 and 90-117 are not required for ArsR dimerization. The genes for a series of truncated ArsR proteins containing six histidine tags were constructed and the proteins purified. The mass of each recombinant protein, as determined by size exclusion chromatography, was consistent with the results from two-hybrid analysis. The results of beta-galactosidase assays in vivo and gel mobility shift assays in vitro showed that dimers retained the ability to bind to the ars promoter and to respond to inducer, whereas monomeric ArsRs did neither. These results suggest that a core sequence of about 80...Continue Reading

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