RecA relieves negative autoregulation of rdgA, which specifies a component of the RecA-Rdg regulatory circuit controlling pectin lyase production in Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora

Molecular Microbiology
Y LiuA K Chatterjee

Abstract

The production of pectin lyase (Pnl) in Erwinia carotovora ssp. carotovora strain 71 is induced by DNA-damaging agents such as mitomycin C (MC). This induction requires functions of recA, rdgA and rdgB genes. Based upon sequence homology, rdgA was predicted to encode a repressor and rdgB was presumed to specify a transcriptional activator. To elucidate the function of rdgA, the gene has been over-expressed in Escherichia coli, and the 30 kDa product purified by ammonium-sulphate precipitation, heparin-agarose chromatography and gel filtration. The results of gel mobility-shift and DNase I protection assays revealed that purified RdgA specifically binds the rdgA operator sequence located between the -10 and -35 boxes. The expression of a rdgA-lacZ gene fusion in E. coli MC4100 is suppressed upon overproduction of RdgA from a Ptac-rdgA construct induced by isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG). However, the suppression of rdgA-tacZ expression is relieved by MC in the RecA+ E. coli strain MC4100, but not in its RecA- derivative, MC4160. An immunoblot analysis revealed RecA-dependent in vivo cleavage of the 30 kDa RdgA protein upon MC treatment. These results demonstrate that the transcription of rdgA is autoregulated, and ...Continue Reading

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Mar 10, 2005·Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews : MMBR·Anja Brencic, Stephen C Winans
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