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Unusual organization of the ilvIH promoter of Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT

Analysis of plasmids containing ilvIH-galK fusions indicated that the Escherichia coli ilvIH promoter and sequences sufficient to cause leucine repression lie within 363 base pairs (bp) of ilvI. Experiments designed to locate the promoter and regulatory sequences more precisely gave the following results. The positions of the 5' endpoints of both unlabeled and pulse-labeled ilvIH mRNAs transcribed in vivo lie 30 bp upstream of ilvI. By contrast, the major in vitro RNA endpoints lie at positions further upstream. Several mutations which increase the expression of ilvIH lie 40 to 50 bp upstream of ilvI, within a putative promoter termed P1. Deletion of a 50-bp region immediately upstream of ilvI, which includes P1, resulted in the loss of all ilvIH promoter activity. Deletion of sequences more than 200 bp upstream of ilvI reduced ilvIH promoter activity by more than 80%. These results suggest that transcription of the ilvIH operon is initiated from promoter P1 but that sequences more than 200 bp upstream are required for optimal transcription of the operon.

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