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J. Bacteriol., May 1995, 2343-2353, Vol 177, No. 9
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Hydroxyl radical footprints and half-site arrangements of binding sites for the CysB transcriptional activator of Salmonella typhimurium

MM Hryniewicz and NM Kredich
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

CysB is a transcriptional activator for the cysteine regulon and negatively autoregulates its own gene, cysB. Transcription activation also requires an inducer, N-acetyl-L-serine. CysB is known to bind to activation sites just upstream of the -35 regions of the positively regulated cysJIH, cysK, and cysP promoters and to a repressor site centered at about +1 in the cysB promoter. Additional accessory sites have been found in positively regulated promoters. The hydroxyl radical footprinting experiments reported here indicate that the activation sites CBS-J1, CBS-K1, and CBS-P1 in the cysJIH, cysK, and cysP promoters are composed of two convergently oriented 19-bp half-sites separated by 1 or 2 bp. N-Acetyl-L-serine stimulates binding to these sites as well as to the accessory sites CBS-J2 and CBS-P2, both of which share a similar topology with activation sites. A second topology is found in the accessory site CBS-K2 and the repressor site CBS-B, which contain divergently oriented 19-bp half-sites separated by one or two helical turns. N-Acetyl-L-serine inhibits binding to these two sites. A third topology is present in the cysK and cysP promoters, where an additional half-site is oriented toward the activation site and separated from it by one helical turn. Here, CysB binds to all three half-sites, bending the DNA, and N-acetyl-L-serine decreases the extent of bending. The marked dissimilarities of these half-site arrangements and of their responses to N-acetyl-L-serine suggest that CysB, a homotetramer, binds to them with different combinations of subunits.

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