Eschenlauer A C, Reznikoff W S
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.
J Bacteriol. 1991 Aug;173(16):5024-9. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.16.5024-5029.1991.
We isolated three Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein mutants that are defective in the positive control of transcription initiation from the lac operon promoter region yet retain negative control of transcription from other promoters. One mutant has a substitution of valine for glutamate at residue 72, which lies in the cyclic AMP binding domain and contacts cyclic AMP. The other two mutants have substitutions of asparagine and cysteine for glycine 162, which lies in a surface-exposed turn of the DNA-binding domain. Surprisingly, although all three mutants can repress the lacP2/P3 promoters through the catabolite gene activator protein target site of lac, none displays strong dominance over the ability of wild-type catabolite gene activator protein to stimulate the lacP1 promoter.
我们分离出了三个大肠杆菌分解代谢基因激活蛋白突变体,它们在从乳糖操纵子启动子区域起始转录的正调控中存在缺陷,但仍保留对其他启动子转录的负调控。一个突变体在位于环磷酸腺苷(cAMP)结合结构域且与cAMP接触的第72位残基处,谷氨酸被缬氨酸取代。另外两个突变体在位于DNA结合结构域表面暴露的转角处的第162位甘氨酸处,分别被天冬酰胺和半胱氨酸取代。令人惊讶的是,尽管所有这三个突变体都能通过乳糖的分解代谢基因激活蛋白靶位点抑制lacP2/P3启动子,但在刺激lacP1启动子的能力方面,没有一个对野生型分解代谢基因激活蛋白表现出强显性。