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J. Bacteriol., Aug 1995, 4451-4456, Vol 177, No. 15
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Bicyclomycin sensitivity and resistance affect Rho factor-mediated transcription termination in the tna operon of Escherichia coli

C Yanofsky and V Horn
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305-5020, USA.

The growth-inhibiting drug bicyclomycin, known to be an inhibitor of Rho factor activity in Escherichia coli, was shown to increase basal level expression of the tryptophanase (tna) operon and to allow growth of a tryptophan auxotroph on indole. The drug also relieved polarity in the trp operon and permitted growth of a trp double nonsense mutant on indole. Nine bicyclomycin-resistant mutants were isolated and partially characterized. Recombination data and genetic and biochemical complementation analyses suggest that five have mutations that affect rho, three have mutations that affect rpoB, and one has a mutation that affects a third locus, near rpoB. Individual mutants showed decreased, normal, or increased basal-level expression of the tna operon. All but one of the resistant mutants displayed greatly increased tna operon expression when grown in the presence of bicyclomycin. The tna operon of the wild-type drug-sensitive parent was also shown to be highly expressed during growth with noninhibitory concentrations of bicyclomycin. These findings demonstrate that resistance to this drug may be required by mutations at any one of three loci, two of which appear to be rho and rpoB.


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