Kim B H, Bang I S, Lee S Y, Hong S K, Bang S H, Lee I S, Park Y K
Graduate School of Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea.
J Bacteriol. 2001 Oct;183(19):5580-8. doi: 10.1128/JB.183.19.5580-5588.2001.
Both Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Escherichia coli contain the cspH gene encoding CspH, one of the cold shock proteins (CSPs). In this study, we investigated the expression of cspH in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium and found that it was induced in response to a temperature downshift during exponential phase. The cspH promoter was activated at 37 degrees C, and its mRNA was more stable than the other csp mRNAs at 37 degrees C. Moreover, lacZ expression of the translational cspH-lacZ fusion was induced at that temperature. Interestingly, the cspH mRNA had a much shorter 5'-untranslated region than those in the other cold-shock-inducible genes, and the promoter sequence, which was only 55 bp, was sufficient for cspH expression. The 14-base downstream box located 12 bases downstream of the initiation codon of cspH mRNA was essential for its cold shock activation.
肠炎沙门氏菌鼠伤寒血清型和大肠杆菌都含有编码冷休克蛋白(CSPs)之一CspH的cspH基因。在本研究中,我们调查了肠炎沙门氏菌鼠伤寒血清型中cspH的表达情况,发现它在指数生长期温度下降时被诱导表达。cspH启动子在37℃时被激活,其mRNA在37℃时比其他csp mRNA更稳定。此外,在该温度下,翻译型cspH-lacZ融合蛋白的lacZ表达被诱导。有趣的是,cspH mRNA的5'-非翻译区比其他冷休克诱导基因的要短得多,仅55 bp的启动子序列就足以实现cspH的表达。位于cspH mRNA起始密码子下游12个碱基处的14碱基下游框对其冷休克激活至关重要。