THE POSITIVE REGULATOR CFAD OVERCOMES THE REPRESSION MEDIATED BY HISTONE-LIKE PROTEIN H-NS (H1) IN THE CFA/I FIMBRIAL OPERON OF ESCHERICHIA-COLI

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作者
JORDI, BJAM
DAGBERG, B
DEHAAN, LAM
HAMERS, AM
VANDERZEIJST, BAM
GAASTRA, W
UHLIN, BE
机构
[1] UNIV UTRECHT,FAC VET MED,INST INFECT DIS & IMMUNOL,DEPT BACTERIOL,YALELAAN 1,POB 80165,3508 TD UTRECHT,NETHERLANDS
[2] UMEA UNIV,DEPT MICROBIOL,S-90187 UMEA,SWEDEN
关键词
CFA/I FIMBRIAE; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; HISTONE-LIKE PROTEINS; POSITIVE REGULATOR; TEMPERATURE REGULATION;
D O I
10.1002/j.1460-2075.1992.tb05328.x
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
CFA/I fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli are expressed at 37-degrees-C and not at 20-degrees-C. Expression of CFA/I fimbriae requires two DNA regions (regions 1 and 2) which are separated by 40 kb on the wild type plasmid. Region 2 encodes a protein (CfaD) which activates the promoter in region 1. We investigated whether the histone-like protein H-NS (H1) of E.coli is involved in the temperature regulated expression of CFA/I fimbriae. As demonstrated recently with other temperature regulated genes, a mutation in the gene coding for this nucleoid-associated H-NS (H1) protein resulted in derepression of CFA/I expression. CFA/I fimbriae were now expressed both at 20-degrees-C and 37-degrees-C. More strikingly, the positive regulator CfaD was not needed for CFA/I expression in an H-NS- strain. This indicates that CfaD diminishes an inhibitory effect of the H-NS nucleoid-associated protein. We also showed that in the H-NS- strain the CfaD protein still has a positive effect on the transcription of CFA/I.
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