Journal of Bacteriology, August 2001, p. 4674-4679, Vol. 183, No. 15
Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina 27157-1064
Received 20 October 2000/Accepted 11 May 2001
Inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa phpA, encoding a
putative leucine aminopeptidase, results in increased transcription of
algD. The homologous protein in Escherichia
coli, PepA, is multifunctional, possessing independent
aminopeptidase and DNA-binding activities. Here we provide in vitro
evidence that PhpA is an aminopeptidase and show that this activity is
the relevant property with regard to algD expression. This
regulation occurred at the previously mapped algD
transcription initiation site and was not due to activation of an
alternative promoter.
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.15.4674-4679.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Loss of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PhpA
Aminopeptidase Activity Results in Increased algD
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Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1064. Phone: (336) 716-2016. Fax: (336) 716-9928. E-mail: dwozniak{at}wfubmc.edu.
Present address: Departments of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
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