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J. Bacteriol., May 1995, 2673-2678, Vol 177, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Isolation of a novel paraquat-inducible (pqi) gene regulated by the soxRS locus in Escherichia coli

YS Koh and JH Roe
Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

We have isolated promoters inducible by paraquat, a superoxide radical- generating agent, from Escherichia coli, using promoter-probing plasmid pJAC4 (Y.S. Koh and J.H. Roe, Korean J. Microbiol. 31:267-273, 1993). One promoter clone pqi-5 (pqi denotes paraquat-inducible gene) was mapped at 21.8 min on the E. coli chromosome by using the Kohara phage library. We constructed an operon fusion of the lacZ gene with the pqi- 5 promoter to monitor the expression of the gene in the single-copy state. LacZ expression was induced about 7- to 13-fold by 77 to 780 microM paraquat. Other known superoxide generators such as menadione, phenazine methosulfate, and plumbagin also induced the expression of beta-galactosidase in this fusion strain. On the other hand, no significant induction was observed with treatment with hydrogen peroxide, ethanol, and heat shock. Induction of beta-galactosidase was significantly reduced by introducing a delta sox-8::cat or soxS3::Tn10 mutation into the fusion strain, indicating that pqi-5 is a member of the soxRS regulon. A DNA fragment containing the pqi-5 promoter was cloned and sequenced from the Kohara phage E2E5. We identified two pqi- 5 open reading frames (ORFs); ORF-A encodes a predicted protein of 342 amino acids, and ORF-B is truncated at the cloning site. The transcription start site from the pqi-5 promoter was determined by primer extension and S1 nuclease protection analyses. Northern (RNA) and S1 analyses indicated that there are two kinds of pqi-5 transcript; one covers ORF-A only and the other covers ORF-A and possibly also ORF- B.

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