Hahn S, Schleif R
J Bacteriol. 1983 Aug;155(2):593-600. doi: 10.1128/jb.155.2.593-600.1983.
The ara pC promoter is known to be derepressed about fivefold for 20 to 30 min after the addition of arabinose. This transient derepression was studied by using araC::Mu lac insertions and araC-lacZ gene fusions. In strains containing increased levels of araC protein, the pC promoter became progressively less derepressible, but the ara pBAD promoter remained normally inducible. Repression of pC was reestablished 20 min after induction in araB mutants, but did not occur in arabinose-transport-deficient mutants. Finally, mutant araCc proteins which normally do not repress pC did so in the presence of arabinose.
已知在添加阿拉伯糖后20至30分钟内,阿拉伯糖操纵子pC启动子的阻遏作用会解除约5倍。通过使用araC::Mu lac插入和araC-lacZ基因融合来研究这种短暂的阻遏解除。在含有增加水平araC蛋白的菌株中,pC启动子的阻遏解除能力逐渐降低,但ara pBAD启动子仍保持正常的诱导性。在araB突变体中,诱导后20分钟pC的阻遏作用得以重建,但在阿拉伯糖转运缺陷型突变体中则不会发生。最后,通常不抑制pC的突变型araCc蛋白在阿拉伯糖存在的情况下会抑制pC。