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Bio Protoc ; 10(2): e3500, 2020 Jan 20.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33654727

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The reporter system is widely used technique for measuring promoter activity in bacterial cells. Until now, a number of reporter system have been developed, but the bioluminescent reporter constructed from the bacterial luciferase genes is one of the useful systems for measuring in vivo dynamics of gene expression. The introduced bioluciferase lux reporter enables easy, fast, and sensitive measurement of the promoter activity without cell lysis because the substrates of bioluminescent reaction are synthesized inside the bacterial cell, thereby allowing low-cost experiments. This protocol describes a high throughput technique to measure the promoter activity in Escherichia coli K-12 using the lux reporter system.

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J Biol Chem ; 293(24): 9496-9505, 2018 06 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29695505

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The bacterial nucleoid-associated protein H-NS is a DNA-binding protein, playing a major role in gene regulation. To regulate transcription, H-NS silences genes, including horizontally acquired foreign genes. Escherichia coli H-NS is 137 residues long and consists of two discrete and independent structural domains: an N-terminal oligomerization domain and a C-terminal DNA-binding domain, joined by a flexible linker. The N-terminal oligomerization domain is composed of two dimerization sites, dimerization sites 1 and 2, which are both required for H-NS oligomerization, but the exact role of dimerization site 2 in gene silencing is unclear. To this end, we constructed a whole set of single amino acid substitution variants spanning residues 2 to 137. Using a well-characterized H-NS target, the slp promoter of the glutamic acid-dependent acid resistance (GAD) cluster promoters, we screened for any variants defective in gene silencing. Focusing on the function of dimerization site 2, we analyzed four variants, I70C/I70A and L75C/L75A, which all could actively bind DNA but are defective in gene silencing. Atomic force microscopy analysis of DNA-H-NS complexes revealed that all of these four variants formed condensed complexes on DNA, whereas WT H-NS formed rigid and extended nucleoprotein filaments, a conformation required for gene silencing. Single-molecule stretching experiments confirmed that the four variants had lost the ability to form stiffened filaments. We conclude that dimerization site 2 of H-NS plays a key role in the formation of rigid H-NS nucleoprotein filament structures required for gene silencing.


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Proteínas de Bactérias/metabolismo , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Escherichia coli/metabolismo , Nucleoproteínas/metabolismo , Substituição de Aminoácidos , Proteínas de Bactérias/química , Proteínas de Bactérias/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/química , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Escherichia coli/química , Escherichia coli/genética , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/química , Proteínas de Escherichia coli/genética , Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica , Inativação Gênica , Multimerização Proteica
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