TrlR, a defective TraR-like protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, blocks TraR function in vitro by forming inactive TrlR:TraR dimers

Molecular Microbiology
Yunrong ChaiStephen C Winans

Abstract

Octopine-type Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens require the quorum-sensing proteins TraR and TraI and the diffusible pheromone 3-oxooctanoyl homoserine lactone (AAI) to regulate genes required for conjugal transfer. TraR activity is inhibited by a protein called TrlR, which closely resembles amino acids 1-181 of TraR but is truncated as a result of a shift in the reading frame at codon 182. This frameshift does not affect synthesis of the amino-terminal domain, which is thought to bind autoinducer and mediate protein dimerization, but abolishes translation of the carboxyl-terminal, DNA-binding domain. In this study, we show that TrlR, like TraR, requires AAI for solubility when overexpressed in Escherichia coli. TrlR bound one molecule of AAI per protein monomer, supporting the prediction that the amino-terminal domain of TraR contains the AAI binding site. Purified TrlR blocked TraR for both specific DNA binding and transcription of a tra promoter, supporting previous studies performed with whole cells. When TrlR and a TraR fusion protein were co-expressed in E. coli, these proteins readily formed heterodimeric complexes that were inactive in DNA-binding activity. These data support the hypotheses that (i) the amino-ter...Continue Reading

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