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J. Bacteriol., Feb 1996, 840-845, Vol 178, No. 3
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

Genetic and topological analyses of the bop promoter of Halobacterium halobium: stimulation by DNA supercoiling and non-B-DNA structure

CF Yang, JM Kim, E Molinari and S DasSarma
Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA.

The bop gene of wild-type Halobacterium halobium NRC-1 is transcriptionally induced more than 20-fold under microaerobic conditions. bop transcription is inhibited by novobiocin, a DNA gyrase inhibitor, at concentrations subinhibitory for growth. The exposure of NRC-1 cultures to novobiocin concentrations inhibiting bop transcription was found to partially relax plasmid DNA supercoiling, indicating the requirement of high DNA supercoiling for bop transcription. Next, the bop promoter region was cloned on an H. halobium plasmid vector and introduced into NRC-1 and S9, a bop overproducer strain. The cloned promoter was active in both H. halobium strains, but at a higher level in the overproducer than in the wild type. Transcription from the bop promoter on the plasmid was found to be inhibited by novobiocin to a similar extent as was transcription from the chromosome. When the cloned promoter was introduced into S9 mutant strains with insertions in either of two putative regulatory genes, brp and bat, no transcription was detectable, indicating that these genes serve to activate transcription from the bop promoter in trans. Deletion analysis of the cloned bop promoter from a site approximately 480 bp upstream of bop showed that a 53-bp region 5' to the transcription start site is sufficient for transcription, but a 28- bp region is not. An 11-bp alternating purine-pyrimidine sequence within the functional promoter region, centered 23 bp 5' to the transcription start point, was found to display DNA supercoiling- dependent sensitivity to S1 nuclease and OsO4, which is consistent with a non-B-DNA conformation similar to that of left-handed Z-DNA and suggests the involvement of unusual DNA structure in supercoiling- stimulated bop gene transcription.


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