Seiler A, Blöcker H, Frank R, Kahmann R
EMBO J. 1986 Oct;5(10):2719-28. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1986.tb04556.x.
Transcription of the DNA modification gene (mom) of bacteriophage Mu requires methylation of three GATC sites upstream of the mom promoter by the Escherichia coli deoxyadenosine methylation function (Dam). The three sites map within a 40-bp segment termed region I. Small deletions, inversions, duplications and specific point mutations have been introduced in region I. Their effect on mom expression has been studied in dam+ and dam strains. Dam-dependent expression of the mom gene requires a specific arrangement of the three GATC sites and the presence of the methylated base in at least two of the three sites. We show that mom specific modification is regulated by a host protein. The Mom function is expressed in dam strains if they are defective in one component of the methylation-instructed mismatch correction system, mutH. We suggest that the product of mutH functions as a transcriptional repressor by binding to region I.
噬菌体Mu的DNA修饰基因(mom)的转录需要大肠杆菌脱氧腺苷甲基化功能(Dam)对mom启动子上游的三个GATC位点进行甲基化。这三个位点位于一个称为区域I的40碱基对片段内。已在区域I中引入了小缺失、倒位、重复和特定点突变。在dam+和dam菌株中研究了它们对mom表达的影响。mom基因的Dam依赖性表达需要三个GATC位点的特定排列以及三个位点中至少两个位点存在甲基化碱基。我们表明,mom特异性修饰受宿主蛋白调控。如果dam菌株在甲基化指导的错配修复系统的一个组分mutH中存在缺陷,则Mom功能会表达。我们认为mutH的产物通过与区域I结合而作为转录阻遏物发挥作用。