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- Title
Autoregulation of the Escherichia coli melR promoter: repression involves four molecules of MelR.
- Authors
Samarasinghe, Shivanthi; El-Robh, Mohamed Samir; Grainger, David C; Zhang, Wenke; Soultanas, Panos; Busby, Stephen J W
- Abstract
The Escherichia coli MelR protein is a transcription activator that autoregulates its own promoter by repressing transcription initiation. Optimal repression requires MelR binding to a site that overlaps the melR transcription start point and to upstream sites. In this work, we have investigated the different determinants needed for optimal repression and their spatial requirements. We show that repression requires a complex involving four DNA-bound MelR molecules, and that the global CRP regulator plays little or no role.
- Publication
Nucleic acids research, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 8, p2667
- ISSN
1362-4962
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/nar/gkn119