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J. Bacteriol., Jan 1998, 195-200, Vol 180, No. 2
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology

Catabolite gene activator protein mutations affecting activity of the araBAD promoter [In Process Citation]

X Zhang and R Schleif
Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

We have studied catabolite gene activator protein (CAP) activation at the araBAD promoter, pBAD, in the absence of DNA looping. We ruled out the two most plausible indirect activation mechanisms: CAP-induced folding of upstream DNA back upon RNA polymerase, and CAP-induced stabilization of AraC binding to DNA. Therefore, a direct CAP-RNA polymerase interaction seemed likely. We sought and found CAP mutants defective in transcription activation at pBAD that retained normal DNA binding affinity. Some mutations altered residues in the interval from positions 150 to 164 that includes CAP activating region 1 (AR1), which has been shown to contact RNA polymerase at a number of promoters. Unexpectedly, additional mutations were found that altered residues in the region between positions 46 and 68 and at position 133. This includes the region known as activating region 3 (AR3). Mutations from both groups also affect the araFGH and rhaBAD promoters.

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