Egland K A, Greenberg E P
Department of Microbiology and Graduate Program in Molecular Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2001 Jan;183(1):382-6. doi: 10.1128/JB.183.1.382-386.2001.
LuxR is the transcriptional activator for quorum-sensing control of luminescence in Vibrio fischeri. A series of alanine-scanning mutants spanning a predicted helix-turn-helix region in the DNA binding domain of LuxR was constructed, and the activity of each of the LuxR mutant proteins in recombinant Escherichia coli was investigated. The region covered by the mutagenesis spanned residues 190 to 224. About half of the alanine-scanning mutants showed activities similar to that of the wild-type LuxR: at least two were positive-control mutants, four appeared to be defective in DNA binding, and several others were characterized as DNA binding affinity mutants. This analysis, taken together with information about other bacterial transcription factors, provides insights into amino acid residues in LuxR that are involved in DNA binding and transcriptional activation.
LuxR是费氏弧菌群体感应控制发光的转录激活因子。构建了一系列跨越LuxR DNA结合域中预测的螺旋-转角-螺旋区域的丙氨酸扫描突变体,并研究了每种LuxR突变蛋白在重组大肠杆菌中的活性。诱变覆盖的区域跨度为190至224位氨基酸残基。大约一半的丙氨酸扫描突变体表现出与野生型LuxR相似的活性:至少两个是阳性对照突变体,四个似乎在DNA结合方面存在缺陷,其他几个被表征为DNA结合亲和力突变体。该分析与关于其他细菌转录因子的信息相结合,为LuxR中参与DNA结合和转录激活的氨基酸残基提供了见解。