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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2008, p. 1237-1246, Vol. 190, No. 4
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01456-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Binding Site Determinants for the LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator PcaQ in the Legume Endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti{triangledown}

Allyson M. MacLean, Michelle I. Anstey, and Turlough M. Finan*

Center for Environmental Genomics, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Received 7 September 2007/ Accepted 17 November 2008

LysR-type transcriptional regulators represent one of the largest groups of prokaryotic regulators described to date. In the gram-negative legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti, enzymes involved in the protocatechuate branch of the β-ketoadipate pathway are encoded within the pcaDCHGB operon, which is subject to regulation by the LysR-type protein PcaQ. In this work, purified PcaQ was shown to bind strongly (equilibrium dissociation constant, 0.54 nM) to a region at positions –78 to –45 upstream of the pcaD transcriptional start site. Within this region, we defined a PcaQ binding site with dyad symmetry that is required for regulation of pcaD expression in vivo and for binding of PcaQ in vitro. We also demonstrated that PcaQ participates in negative autoregulation by monitoring expression of pcaQ via a transcriptional fusion to lacZ. Although pcaQ homologues are present in many {alpha}-proteobacteria, this work describes the first reported purification of this regulator, as well as characterization of its binding site, which is conserved in Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Rhizobium leguminosarum, Rhizobium etli, and Mesorhizobium loti.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biology, Life Sciences Building, McMaster University, 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1. Phone: (905) 525-9140, ext. 24000. Fax: (905) 628-6033. E-mail: finan{at}mcmaster.ca

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 30 November 2007.

Journal of Bacteriology, February 2008, p. 1237-1246, Vol. 190, No. 4
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01456-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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