Enteropathogenic E. coli causes attaching and effacing (A/E)
intestinal lesions. The genes involved in the formation of A/E
lesions are encoded within a chromosomal island comprising
of five major operons, LEE1-5. The global regulator H-NS
represses the expression of these operons. Ler, a H-NS homologue,
counteracts the H-NS–mediated repression. Using a
novel genetic approach, we identified the amino acid residues
in Ler that are involved in the interaction with H-NS: I20 and
L23 in the C-terminal portion of α-helix 3, and I42 in the
following unstructured linker region.
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Regulation of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement in Attaching and Effacing Pathogens R. Christopher D. Furniss, Abigail Clements, William Margolin Journal of Bacteriology.2018;[Epub] CrossRef