Yang J, Camakaris H, Pittard A J
Department of Microbiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
J Bacteriol. 1996 Nov;178(21):6389-93. doi: 10.1128/jb.178.21.6389-6393.1996.
In order to understand the mechanism by which the TyrR protein activates transcription from the mtr and tyrP+3 promoters, we have carried out in vitro transcription experiments with supercoiled DNA templates. We have shown that addition of the histone-like protein HU or integration host factor (IHF) greatly inhibited the transcription from the mtr and tyrP+3 promoters. In the presence of phenylalanine, the wild-type TyrR protein, but not a mutant TyrR protein (activation negative), was able to relieve the HU- or IHF-mediated inhibition of transcription. In contrast, the alleviation of the HU- or IHF-mediated transcription inhibition by the wild-type TyrR protein did not occur when a mutant RNA polymerase with a C-terminally truncated alpha subunit was used to carry out the transcription reaction.
为了理解TyrR蛋白激活mtr和tyrP + 3启动子转录的机制,我们使用超螺旋DNA模板进行了体外转录实验。我们发现,添加类组蛋白HU或整合宿主因子(IHF)会极大地抑制mtr和tyrP + 3启动子的转录。在苯丙氨酸存在的情况下,野生型TyrR蛋白能够解除HU或IHF介导的转录抑制,而突变型TyrR蛋白(激活阴性)则不能。相反,当使用α亚基C末端截短的突变型RNA聚合酶进行转录反应时,野生型TyrR蛋白不会解除HU或IHF介导的转录抑制。