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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2002, p. 4733-4738, Vol. 184, No. 17
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.17.4733-4738.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

SoxRS Down-Regulation of rob Transcription

Carmen Michán, Manuel Manchado,,{dagger} and Carmen Pueyo*

Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Received 29 April 2002/ Accepted 6 June 2002

Rob is regarded as a constitutively expressed protein, although little is known about how rob gene is regulated. We show here by reverse transcription-PCR that the transcriptional levels of rob are strongly down-regulated in response to the superoxide-generating agent paraquat (PQ). Repression reached a maximum of 20-fold after 10 min exposure at 10 µM PQ. The magnitude of rob repression was comparable to that of induction quantified for the most sensitive SoxS targets. ß-Galactosidase expression with the rob2::lacZ transcriptional fusion indicates that down-regulation of rob expression takes place, at least in part, at the level of transcription initiation. Moreover, ca. 50% of the rob mRNA was degraded in <1 min after the addition of rifampin to inhibit transcription. This intrinsic short half-life, which is of obvious benefit for a rapid down-regulation after transcription ceases, was unaffected by the addition of PQ. No repression was observed in a soxR-null strain, indicating that the rob transcript level might be negatively modulated by the intracellular amounts of SoxS protein. Gel retardation assays support the idea that in vivo SoxS would block rob transcription directly.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Campus de Rabanales edificio C-6, Carretera Madrid-Cádiz Km 396-a, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain. Phone: 34-957-218695. Fax: 34-957-218688. E-mail: bb1pucuc{at}uco.es.

{dagger} Present address: CICEM "El Toruño," Puerto de Santa María, 11500 Cádiz, Spain.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2002, p. 4733-4738, Vol. 184, No. 17
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.17.4733-4738.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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