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Coulson TJD, Malenfant RM, Patten CL. Characterization of the TyrR Regulon in the Rhizobacterium Enterobacter ludwigii UW5 Reveals Overlap with the CpxR Envelope Stress Response. J Bacteriol 2020; 203:e00313-20. [PMID: 33046562 PMCID: PMC7723952 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00313-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The TyrR transcription factor controls the expression of genes for the uptake and biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids in Escherichia coli In the plant-associated and clinically significant proteobacterium Enterobacter ludwigii UW5, the TyrR orthologue was previously shown to regulate genes that encode enzymes for synthesis of the plant hormone indole-3-acetic acid and for gluconeogenesis, indicating a broader function for the transcription factor. This study aimed to delineate the TyrR regulon of E. ludwigii by comparing the transcriptomes of the wild type and a tyrR deletion strain. In E. ludwigii, TyrR positively or negatively regulates the expression of over 150 genes. TyrR downregulated expression of envelope stress response regulators CpxR and CpxP through interaction with a DNA binding site in the intergenic region between divergently transcribed cpxP and cpxR Repression of cpxP was alleviated by tyrosine. Methyltransferase gene dmpM, which is possibly involved in antibiotic synthesis, was strongly activated in the presence of tyrosine and phenylalanine by TyrR binding to its promoter region. TyrR also regulated expression of genes for aromatic catabolism and anaerobic respiration. Our findings suggest that the E. ludwigii TyrR regulon has diverged from that of E. coli to include genes for survival in the diverse environments that this bacterium inhabits and illustrate the expansion and plasticity of transcription factor regulons.IMPORTANCE Genome-wide RNA sequencing revealed a broader regulatory role for the TyrR transcription factor in the ecologically versatile bacterium Enterobacter ludwigii beyond that of aromatic amino acid synthesis and transport that constitute the role of the TyrR regulon of E. coli In E. ludwigii, a plant symbiont and human gut commensal, the TyrR regulon is expanded to include genes that are beneficial for plant interactions and response to stresses. Identification of the genes regulated by TyrR provides insight into the mechanisms by which the bacterium adapts to its environment.
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- Thomas J D Coulson
- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Barreiro C, Nakunst D, Hüser AT, de Paz HD, Kalinowski J, Martín JF. Microarray studies reveal a ‘differential response’ to moderate or severe heat shock of the HrcA- and HspR-dependent systems in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Microbiology (Reading) 2009; 155:359-372. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.019299-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Genome-wide transcription profile analysis of the heat-shocked wild-type strain under moderate (40 °C) and severe heat stress (50 °C) revealed that a large number of genes are differentially expressed after heat shock. Of these, 358 genes were upregulated and 420 were downregulated in response to moderate heat shock (40 °C) inCorynebacterium glutamicum. Our results confirmed the HrcA/controlling inverted repeat of chaperone expression (CIRCE)-dependent and HspR/HspR-associated inverted repeat (HAIR)-dependent upregulation of chaperones following heat shock. Other genes, including clusters of orthologous groups (COG) related to macromolecule biosynthesis and several transcriptional regulators (COG class K), were upregulated, explaining the large number of genes affected by heat shock. Mutants having deletions in thehrcAorhspRregulators were constructed, which allowed the complete identification of the genes controlled by those systems. The up- or downregulation of several genes observed in the microarray experiments was validated by Northern blot analyses and quantitative (real-time) reverse-transcription PCR. These analyses showed a heat-shock intensity-dependent response (‘differential response’) in the HspR/HAIR system, in contrast to the non-differential response shown by the HrcA/CIRCE-regulated genes.
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- Carlos Barreiro
- INBIOTEC (Instituto de Biotecnología de León), Parque Científico de León, Avda. Real, 1, 24006 León, Spain
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- Institut für Genomforschung und Systembiologie, Centrum für Biotechnologie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Institut für Genomforschung und Systembiologie, Centrum für Biotechnologie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- INBIOTEC (Instituto de Biotecnología de León), Parque Científico de León, Avda. Real, 1, 24006 León, Spain
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- Institut für Genomforschung und Systembiologie, Centrum für Biotechnologie, Universität Bielefeld, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Área de Microbiología, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad de León, Campus de Vegazana, s/n. 24071 León, Spain
- INBIOTEC (Instituto de Biotecnología de León), Parque Científico de León, Avda. Real, 1, 24006 León, Spain
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This chapter describes in detail the genes and proteins of Escherichia coli involved in the biosynthesis and transport of the three aromatic amino acids tyrosine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan. It provides a historical perspective on the elaboration of the various reactions of the common pathway converting erythrose-4-phosphate and phosphoenolpyruvate to chorismate and those of the three terminal pathways converting chorismate to phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. The regulation of key reactions by feedback inhibition, attenuation, repression, and activation are also discussed. Two regulatory proteins, TrpR (108 amino acids) and TyrR (513 amino acids), play a major role in transcriptional regulation. The TrpR protein functions only as a dimer which, in the presence of tryptophan, represses the expression of trp operon plus four other genes (the TrpR regulon). The TyrR protein, which can function both as a dimer and as a hexamer, regulates the expression of nine genes constituting the TyrR regulon. TyrR can bind each of the three aromatic amino acids and ATP and under their influence can act as a repressor or activator of gene expression. The various domains of this protein involved in binding the aromatic amino acids and ATP, recognizing DNA binding sites, interacting with the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase, and changing from a monomer to a dimer or a hexamer are all described. There is also an analysis of the various strategies which allow TyrR in conjunction with particular amino acids to differentially affect the expression of individual genes of the TyrR regulon.
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Lütke-Eversloh T, Santos CNS, Stephanopoulos G. Perspectives of biotechnological production of l-tyrosine and its applications. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2007; 77:751-62. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-007-1243-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2007] [Revised: 10/01/2007] [Accepted: 10/03/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Roberts CW, Roberts F, Lyons RE, Kirisits MJ, Mui EJ, Finnerty J, Johnson JJ, Ferguson DJP, Coggins JR, Krell T, Coombs GH, Milhous WK, Kyle DE, Tzipori S, Barnwell J, Dame JB, Carlton J, McLeod R. The shikimate pathway and its branches in apicomplexan parasites. J Infect Dis 2002; 185 Suppl 1:S25-36. [PMID: 11865437 DOI: 10.1086/338004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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The shikimate pathway is essential for production of a plethora of aromatic compounds in plants, bacteria, and fungi. Seven enzymes of the shikimate pathway catalyze sequential conversion of erythrose 4-phosphate and phosphoenol pyruvate to chorismate. Chorismate is then used as a substrate for other pathways that culminate in production of folates, ubiquinone, napthoquinones, and the aromatic amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine, and tyrosine. The shikimate pathway is absent from animals and present in the apicomplexan parasites Toxoplasma gondii, Plasmodium falciparum, and Cryptosporidium parvum. Inhibition of the pathway by glyphosate is effective in controlling growth of these parasites. These findings emphasize the potential benefits of developing additional effective inhibitors of the shikimate pathway. Such inhibitors may function as broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents that are effective against bacterial and fungal pathogens and apicomplexan parasites.
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- Craig W Roberts
- Department of Immunology, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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The shikimate pathway links metabolism of carbohydrates to biosynthesis of aromatic compounds. In a sequence of seven metabolic steps, phosphoenolpyruvate and erythrose 4-phosphate are converted to chorismate, the precursor of the aromatic amino acids and many aromatic secondary metabolites. All pathway intermediates can also be considered branch point compounds that may serve as substrates for other metabolic pathways. The shikimate pathway is found only in microorganisms and plants, never in animals. All enzymes of this pathway have been obtained in pure form from prokaryotic and eukaryotic sources and their respective DNAs have been characterized from several organisms. The cDNAs of higher plants encode proteins with amino terminal signal sequences for plastid import, suggesting that plastids are the exclusive locale for chorismate biosynthesis. In microorganisms, the shikimate pathway is regulated by feedback inhibition and by repression of the first enzyme. In higher plants, no physiological feedback inhibitor has been identified, suggesting that pathway regulation may occur exclusively at the genetic level. This difference between microorganisms and plants is reflected in the unusually large variation in the primary structures of the respective first enzymes. Several of the pathway enzymes occur in isoenzymic forms whose expression varies with changing environmental conditions and, within the plant, from organ to organ. The penultimate enzyme of the pathway is the sole target for the herbicide glyphosate. Glyphosate-tolerant transgenic plants are at the core of novel weed control systems for several crop plants.
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- Klaus M. Herrmann
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907; e-mail: , Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri 63198; e-mail:
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This map is an update of the edition 9 map by Berlyn et al. (M. K. B. Berlyn, K. B. Low, and K. E. Rudd, p. 1715-1902, in F. C. Neidhardt et al., ed., Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 1996). It uses coordinates established by the completed sequence, expressed as 100 minutes for the entire circular map, and adds new genes discovered and established since 1996 and eliminates those shown to correspond to other known genes. The latter are included as synonyms. An alphabetical list of genes showing map location, synonyms, the protein or RNA product of the gene, phenotypes of mutants, and reference citations is provided. In addition to genes known to correspond to gene sequences, other genes, often older, that are described by phenotype and older mapping techniques and that have not been correlated with sequences are included.
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- M K Berlyn
- Department of Biology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8104, USA.
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Hwang JS, Yang J, Pittard AJ. Critical base pairs and amino acid residues for protein-DNA interaction between the TyrR protein and tyrP operator of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:1051-8. [PMID: 9023183 PMCID: PMC178797 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.4.1051-1058.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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In Escherichia coli K-12, the repression of tyrP requires the binding of the TyrR protein to the operator in the presence of coeffectors, tyrosine and ATP. This operator contains two 22-bp palindromic sequences which are termed TyrR boxes. Methylation, uracil, and ethylation interference experiments were used to identify the important sites in the TyrR boxes that make contacts with the TyrR protein. Methylation interference studies demonstrated that guanines at positions +8, -5, and -8 of the strong TyrR box and positions +8, -4, and -8 of the weak box are close to the TyrR protein. Uracil interference revealed that strong van der Waals contacts are made by the thymines at position -7 and +5 of the top strands of both strong and weak boxes and that weaker contacts are made by the thymines at positions +7 (strong box) and -5 and +7 (weak box) of the bottom strand. In addition, ethylation interference suggested that the phosphate backbone contacts are located at the end and central regions of the palindrome. These findings are supported by our results derived from studies of symmetrical mutations of the tyrP strong box. Overall, the results confirm the critical importance of the invariant (G x C)(C x G)8 base pairs for TyrR recognition and also indicate that interactions with (T x A)(A x T)7 are of major importance. In contrast, mutations in other positions result in weaker effects on the binding affinity of TyrR protein, indicating that these positions play a lesser role in TyrR protein recognition. Alanine scanning of both helices of the putative helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif of TyrR protein has identified those amino acids whose side chains play an essential role in protein structure and DNA binding.
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- J S Hwang
- Department of Microbiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Snell KD, Draths KM, Frost JW. Synthetic Modification of the Escherichia coli Chromosome: Enhancing the Biocatalytic Conversion of Glucose into Aromatic Chemicals. J Am Chem Soc 1996. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9538041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- K. D. Snell
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322
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Lawley B, Pittard AJ. Regulation of aroL expression by TyrR protein and Trp repressor in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:6921-30. [PMID: 7961453 PMCID: PMC197062 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.22.6921-6930.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The promoter-operator region of the aroL gene of Escherichia coli K-12 contains three TYR R boxes and one TrpR binding site. Mutational analysis showed that TYR R boxes 1 and 3 are essential for TyrR-mediated regulation of aroL expression, while a fully functional TYR R box 2 does not appear to be essential for regulation. Regulation mediated by the TrpR protein required the TYR R boxes and TrpR site to be functional and was observed in vivo only with a tyrR+ strain. Under conditions favoring the formation of TyrR hexamers, DNase I protection experiments revealed the presence of phased hypersensitive sites, indicative of DNA backbone strain. This suggests that TyrR-mediated repression involves DNA looping. Purified TrpR protein protected the putative TrpR binding site in the presence of tryptophan, and this protection was slightly enhanced in the presence of TyrR protein. This result along with the in vivo findings implies that TyrR and TrpR are able to interact in some way. Inserting 4 bp between TYR R box 1 and the TrpR binding site results in increased tyrosine repression and the abolition of the tryptophan effect. Identification of a potential integration host factor binding site and repression studies of a himA mutant support the notion that integration host factor binding normally exerts a negative effect on tyrosine-mediated repression.
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- B Lawley
- Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Argaet V, Wilson T, Davidson B. Purification of the Escherichia coli regulatory protein TyrR and analysis of its interactions with ATP, tyrosine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37671-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sarsero JP, Pittard AJ. Molecular analysis of the TyrR protein-mediated activation of mtr gene expression in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:7701-4. [PMID: 1938967 PMCID: PMC212541 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.23.7701-7704.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Expression of the mtr gene, which encodes a tryptophan-specific transport system in Escherichia coli K-12, is activated by the TyrR protein. Two TyrR protein binding sites (TYR R boxes) are positioned upstream of the -35 promoter region. Mutational and DNase protection studies indicate that TyrR protein binds preferentially to the TYR R box closest to the promoter, and this is essential for activation of gene expression. In the presence of tyrosine and ATP, a second TyrR molecule is able to cooperatively bind to the second box and cause a further increase in the level of activation.
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- J P Sarsero
- Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Andrews AE, Lawley B, Pittard AJ. Mutational analysis of repression and activation of the tyrP gene in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:5068-78. [PMID: 1860819 PMCID: PMC208197 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.16.5068-5078.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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In a previous report it had been suggested that the tyrP gene of Escherichia coli may be expressed from two separate promoters. We have endeavored to confirm this suggestion by primer extension studies and the separate subcloning of each of these promoters. In these studies, we found a single promoter whose expression was repressed by TyrR protein in the presence of tyrosine and activated by TyrR protein in the presence of phenylalanine. Two adjacent TYR R boxes, with the downstream one overlapping the tyrP promoter, are the likely targets for the action of TyrR protein. Mutational analysis showed that both TYR R boxes were required for tyrosine-mediated repression but that only the upstream box was required for phenylalanine-mediated activation. In vitro DNase protection studies established that whereas in the absence of tyrosine TyrR protein protected the region of DNA represented by the upstream box, at low TyrR protein concentrations both tyrosine and ATP were required to protect the region of DNA involving the downstream box and overlapping the RNA polymerase binding site.
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- A E Andrews
- Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Sarsero JP, Wookey PJ, Pittard AJ. Regulation of expression of the Escherichia coli K-12 mtr gene by TyrR protein and Trp repressor. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:4133-43. [PMID: 2061290 PMCID: PMC208063 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.13.4133-4143.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli K-12 mtr gene, which encodes a tryptophan-specific permease, was cloned, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The precise location of the mtr gene at 69 min on the E. coli chromosome was determined. The mtr gene product was identified as a 414-amino-acid residue protein with a calculated molecular weight of 44,332. The protein is very hydrophobic, consistent with its presumed location spanning the cytoplasmic membrane. The initiation sites of transcription and translation were identified. Construction of an mtr-lacZ transcriptional fusion facilitated investigation of the molecular basis of mtr regulation. The TyrR protein in association with phenylalanine or tyrosine is responsible for the activation of mtr expression, whereas the Trp repressor in conjunction with tryptophan serves to repress expression of this gene. Site-directed mutagenesis confirmed that sequences in the mtr regulatory region homologous to TyrR protein and to Trp repressor-binding sites were involved in the activation and repression of mtr expression, respectively. Sequences homologous to sigma 70- and sigma 54-dependent promoters were identified upstream of the transcription start point of mtr. It was determined that transcription of mtr occurs only via a sigma 70-dependent promoter.
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- J P Sarsero
- Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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The TyrR protein regulates the expression of eight transcriptional units that comprise the TyrR regulon. In all but one case, regulation is by repression, while in two cases activation of expression can occur. Notwithstanding the fact that the TyrR protein contains an ATP-binding domain and a helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain which are structurally homologous to domains of similar functions in proteins such as NifA, NtrC, DctD and XylR, it differs from them in a number of respects. It is not a part of a two-protein component system and it lacks the amino-terminal domain that is present on NtrC and DctD. It activates transcription from 'E sigma 70, promoters but not from 'E sigma 54, promoters. ATP binding seems to be essential for tyrosine-mediated repression but not for activation. In addition, the activity of the TyrR protein is modulated by the binding of one or more of the aromatic amino acids. The consensus sequence for TyrR-binding sites in DNA, referred to as TyrR boxes, is TGTAAAN6TTTACA. Tyrosine-mediated repression occurs at operators containing a pair of adjacent boxes. These have unequal affinities for the TyrR protein. The box that overlaps the RNA polymerase binding site is only bound by TyrR in the presence of both ATP and tyrosine, and binding appears to involve co-operativity between two TyrR protein dimers. In contrast, activation of expression by TyrR appears to require phenylalanine but not ATP.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- A J Pittard
- Microbiology Department, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Muday GK, Johnson DI, Somerville RL, Herrmann KM. The tyrosine repressor negatively regulates aroH expression in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:3930-2. [PMID: 1675635 PMCID: PMC208031 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.12.3930-3932.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The levels of the tryptophan-sensitive isoenzyme of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase of Escherichia coli, encoded by the aroH gene, were elevated in tyrR and/or trpR mutants. The effect of tyrR and trpR lesions on aroH expression was confirmed by using a lacZ reporter system. The mutational elimination of either repressor led to a threefold increase in beta-galactosidase.
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- G K Muday
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-6799
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Cloning of an aroF allele encoding a tyrosine-insensitive 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:6581-4. [PMID: 1977738 PMCID: PMC526849 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.11.6581-6584.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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In Escherichia coli, genes aroF+, aroG+, and aroH+ encode isoenzymes of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthases that are feedback inhibited by tyrosine, phenylalanine, and tryptophan, respectively. A single base pair change in aroF causes a Pro-148-to-Leu-148 substitution and results in a tyrosine-insensitive enzyme.
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The Salmonella typhimurium aroF gene, encoding the tyrosine-sensitive 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthase, was localized to a chromosomal PstI fragment by Southern blotting with an Escherichia coli aroF probe. This fragment was cloned by screening a plasmid library for complementation of an E. coli aroF mutant. The nucleotide sequence of S. typhimurium aroF was determined and compared with its E. coli homolog. The nucleotide sequences are 85.1% identical, and the corresponding amino acid sequences are 96.1% identical. The E. coli genes encoding the three DAHP synthase isoenzymes are evolutionarily more distant from one another than are the homologous aroF genes of E. coli and S. typhimurium. The S. typhimurium aroF regulatory region contains three imperfect palindromes, two upstream of the promoter and one overlapping the promoter, that are nearly identical to operators aroFo1, aroFo2, and TyrR box 1 of E. coli. The aroFo1 and aroFo2 sequences of the two organisms are each separated by three turns of the DNA helix with no sequence similarity. The 5' ends of the aroF transcripts for both organisms contain untranslated regions with potential stem-loop structures. Translational fusions of the aroF regulatory regions to lacZ were constructed and then introduced in single copy into the E. coli chromosome. beta-Galactosidase assays for tyrR-mediated regulation of aroF-lacZ expression revealed that the E. coli TyrR repressor apparently recognizes the operators of both organisms with about equal efficiency.
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- G K Muday
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-6799
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Baseggio N, Davies WD, Davidson BE. Identification of the promoter, operator, and 5' and 3' ends of the mRNA of the Escherichia coli K-12 gene aroG. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:2547-57. [PMID: 1970563 PMCID: PMC208896 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.5.2547-2557.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The promoter, operator, and 5' and 3' ends of the mRNA of the Escherichia coli gene aroG (encoding the phenylalanine-sensitive 3-deoxy-arabinoheptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase) were located. Primer extension analysis and nuclease S1 mapping of in vivo transcripts were used to determine the 5' and 3' ends, respectively, of the mRNA. Both ends exhibited some heterogeneity with respect to length. The 3' end of the major molecular species was located within a region that has structural homology with known rho-independent terminators. The location of the aroG promoter was identified in both strands of the DNA by in vitro DNase I footprinting and methylation protection experiments with RNA polymerase. In these experiments, a region of up to 80 base pairs (bp) was protected by the binding of RNA polymerase. The location of the aroG operator was also identified in both strands of the DNA by in vitro DNase I footprinting with pure TyrR. TyrR protected 26 to 28 bp of DNA containing a 22-bp palindrome (TYR R box) and overlapping the -35 region of the promoter. Mutations in the aroG regulatory DNA were isolated by site-directed mutagenesis and cloned in a low-copy-number plasmid to generate aroG-lac fusions. The effects of the mutations on the regulation of aroG expression were determined by measuring the beta-galactosidase activities of the fusions in strains with tyrR, tyrR+, and multicopy tyrR+ genotypes. The results of this mutant analysis confirmed that the aroG operator contains a single TYR R box.
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- N Baseggio
- Russell Grimwade School of Biochemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Dyer WE, Weaver LM, Zhao JM, Kuhn DN, Weller SC, Herrmann KM. A cDNA encoding 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase from Solanum tuberosum L. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)40060-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Cobbett C, Dickson B, Farmer L. The role of a static bend in the DNA of the aroF regulatory region of Escherichia coli. Gene 1989; 75:185-91. [PMID: 2656411 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(89)90395-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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DNA fragments containing the regulatory regions of two genes repressed by the tyrR gene product exhibit retarded electrophoretic mobility in polyacrylamide gels indicating the presence of static bends in the DNA. In the aroF gene this bend has been localized to a region containing two TyrR protein-binding sites. A point mutation between these two sites reduced the degree of bending observed but did not reduce the level of repression, indicating the static bend may not be an important component of the repression mechanism.
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- C Cobbett
- Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Cobbett CS. Repression of the aroF promoter by the TyrR repressor in Escherichia coli K-12: role of the 'upstream' operator site. Mol Microbiol 1988; 2:377-83. [PMID: 3041242 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1988.tb00042.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Three sequences are required for complete repression of the aroF promoter by the TyrR repressor protein. Two of these operator sites lie adjacent to each other and overlap the -35 region of the aroF promoter while the third lies about 70 base pairs upstream of the promoter. An aroF-cat (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase) gene fusion has been used to assay the effect of DNA insertions that alter the distance between the two promoter-proximal and the third, distal, operator sites on the repression of the aroF promoter in vivo. The distal site contributes to the repression of the promoter up to a distance of about 400 base pairs and its effect is not dependent on its separation from the first and second sites by an integral number of turns of the DNA helix.
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- C S Cobbett
- Department of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
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Yang J, Pittard J. Molecular analysis of the regulatory region of the Escherichia coli K-12 tyrB gene. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:4710-5. [PMID: 3308851 PMCID: PMC213844 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.10.4710-4715.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The tyrB gene from Escherichia coli K-12 was cloned and sequenced, and the transcriptional start point of tyrB was determined by primer extension. By using a fusion plasmid in which the lacZ structural gene is transcribed from the tyrB promoter, it was shown that the expression of tyrB is controlled at the transcriptional level by the TyrR protein, with tyrosine as corepressor. The fusion plasmid was used to isolate mutants in which the repression of tyrB had been abolished. The tyrB promoter-operator region of these mutants was sequenced, and the tyrB operator was identified. A comparison between the tyrB operator and those of the other genes belonging to the tyrR regulon is presented.
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- J Yang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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The regulatory region of the aroF-tyrA operon was fused to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (cat) gene on a plasmid vector. Expression of the cat gene was subject to repression by tyrR+. This fusion was used to isolate regulatory mutants with increased expression of the cat gene in which repression by tyrR+ was affected. Nucleotide sequencing of these mutants has led to the identification of three sites involved in the repression of aroF by tyrR+. The existence of a functional promoter divergently transcribing from the aroF regulatory region was also demonstrated by using the cat fusion vector. The expression of this promoter is also regulated by tyrR+.
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Chye ML, Pittard J. Transcription control of the aroP gene in Escherichia coli K-12: analysis of operator mutants. J Bacteriol 1987; 169:386-93. [PMID: 3025182 PMCID: PMC211779 DOI: 10.1128/jb.169.1.386-393.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of the region containing the promoter-operator for the aroP gene was determined. The start site of aroP transcription was identified by using S1 nuclease mapping and primer extension techniques. Examination of the nucleotide sequence revealed the presence of two "TYR R" boxes which are similar to those identified in the regulatory regions of other genes in the tyrR regulon. Bisulfite-induced aroP operator-constitutive mutants were analyzed, and the base-pair changes responsible for alterations in aroP regulation were located within these boxes.
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Kasian PA, Davidson BE, Pittard J. Molecular analysis of the promoter operator region of the Escherichia coli K-12 tyrP gene. J Bacteriol 1986; 167:556-61. [PMID: 3525516 PMCID: PMC212925 DOI: 10.1128/jb.167.2.556-561.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of the tyrP promoter region from Escherichia coli has been determined. Two TYR R boxes have been identified, and one of these was shown to overlap the -35 region of a major tyrP promoter (p1). S1 nuclease mapping of in vivo transcripts revealed that transcription from p1 is stimulated by phenylalanine and to a lesser extent by leucine. The demonstration that mutants in which TyrR-tyrosine-mediated repression of tyrP has been abolished have single base changes in the TYR R box which overlaps p1 suggests that TyrR-tyrosine-mediated repression of tyrP also involves p1. TyrR-independent stimulation of tyrP expression by Casamino Acids involves a second promoter 140 bases upstream of p1. There are no TYR R boxes in this region. The sequences of 10 TYR R boxes preceding the genes tyrP, tyrR, and aroG and the operons aroF tyrA and aroL aroM are compared and discussed.
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DeFeyter RC, Davidson BE, Pittard J. Nucleotide sequence of the transcription unit containing the aroL and aroM genes from Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 1986; 165:233-9. [PMID: 3001025 PMCID: PMC214394 DOI: 10.1128/jb.165.1.233-239.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The nucleotide sequence of 2,021 base pairs (bp) of DNA containing the Escherichia coli aroLM operon was determined, and the coding regions of both aroL and aroM were identified. The 501-bp intercistronic region between aroL and aroM contains an open reading frame which might encode a 63-residue protein. Northern blots with RNA from strains carrying multicopy aroL+ plasmids detected one longer (2,000-base) and two shorter (950- and 1,100-base) transcripts which contained aroL. It was concluded that the longest transcript, which was not abundant, spanned the entire operon and that the shorter transcripts resulted from either termination or posttranscriptional processing in the intercistronic region. The DNA upstream of aroL contains a number of imperfect palindromes which are closely homologous to known sites of regulation by the TyrR protein in other operons.
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Cornish EC, Argyropoulos VP, Pittard J, Davidson BE. Structure of the Escherichia coli K12 regulatory gene tyrR. Nucleotide sequence and sites of initiation of transcription and translation. J Biol Chem 1986. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42487-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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