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Role of the imp operon of the Streptomyces coelicolor genetic element SLP1: two imp-encoded proteins interact to autoregulate imp expression and control plasmid maintenance.

Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305.

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The Streptomyces coelicolor genetic element SLP1 can exist either integrated into the host chromosome or as an autonomously replicating plasmid. The integrated form of SLP1 includes a locus (imp, for inhibition of plasmid maintenance) that can act both in cis and in trans to prevent propagation of SLP1 as an extrachromosomal replicon (S. R. Grant, S. C. Lee, K. Kendall, and S. N. Cohen, Mol. Gen. Genet. 217:324-331, 1989). We report here that a 1.8-kb Eco47III DNA fragment previously shown to encode the Imp+ phenotype contains two genes (impA and impC) that must be expressed in cis to each other and whose products interact functionally and probably physically to interfere with SLP1 plasmid maintenance and repress expression of the imp operon. Partial repression of the imp promoter (P(imp)), which is located immediately 5' of impA, by the 29.7-kDa ImpA protein is enhanced by the impC gene product. Gel shift analysis indicates that ImpA binds to a 16-bp sequence located within the DNA segment containing P(imp) and that ImpC interferes with this binding. Our data suggest that binding of ImpA to the P(imp) region mediates DNA looping in this region.

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