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Isolation and Characterization of Paraquat-inducible Promoters from Escherichia coli
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Isolation and Characterization of Paraquat-inducible Promoters from Escherichia coli
Lee, Joon Hee , Roe, Jung Hye
Journal of Microbiology 1997;35(4):277-283

Departmemt of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, and Research Center for Molecular Microbiology, Seoul National UniversitDepartmemt of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, and Research Center for Molecular Microbiology, Seoul National Universit
Corresponding author:  Roe, Jung Hye ,
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Promoters inducible by paraquat, a superocide-generating agent, were isolated from Escherichia coli using a promoter-probing plasmid pRS415 with promoterless lacA gene. Twenty one promoters induced by paraquat were selected and further characterized. From sequence analysis, thirteen of the promoters were mapped to their specific loci on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Several promoters were mapped to the upstream of known genes such as usgl, katG, and mglB, whose relationships with superoxide response have not been previously reported. Other promoters were mapped to the upstream region of unknown open reading frames. Downstream of HC 96 promoter are uncharacterized ORFs whose sequences are homologous to ABC-transporter subunits. Downstream of HC84 promoter is an ORF encoding a transcriptional regulator-like protein, which contains a LysR family-specific HTH (helix-turn-helix) DNA bindign motif. We investigated whether these promoters belong to the soxRS regulon. All promoters except HC96 were found to belong to the soxRS regulon. The HC96 promoter was significantly induced by paraquat in the soxRS deletion mutant strain. The basal transcription level of three promoters (HE43, HC71, HD94) significantly increased at the stationary phase, implying that they are regulated by RpoS. However, paraquat inducibility of all promoters disappeared in the stationary phase, suggesting that SoxRS regulatory system is active only in rapidly growing cells.

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