Bacterial Two-Hybrid Analysis of Interactions between Region 4 of the 70 Subunit of RNA Polymerase and the Transcriptional Regulators Rsd from Escherichia coli and AlgQ from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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A number of transcriptional regulators mediate their effects through direct contact with the 70 subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase (RNAP). In particular, several regulators have been shown to contact a C-terminal portion of 70 that harbors conserved region 4. This region of contains a putative helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif that contacts the 35 element of -dependent promoters directly. Here we report the use of a recently developed bacterial two-hybrid system to study the interaction between the putative antifactor Rsd and the 70 subunit of E. coli RNAP. Using this system, we found that Rsd can interact with an 86-amino-acid C-terminal fragment of 70 and also that amino acid substitution R596H, within region 4 of , weakens this interaction. We demonstrated the specificity of this effect by showing that substitution R596H does not weaken the interaction between and two other regulators shown previously to contact region 4 of . We also demonstrated that AlgQ, a homolog of Rsd that positively regulates virulence gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can contact the C-terminal region of the 70 subunit of RNAP from this organism. We found that amino acid substitution R600H in 70 from P. aeruginosa, corresponding to the R596H substitution in E. coli , specifically weakens the interaction between AlgQ and . Taken together, our findings suggest that Rsd and AlgQ contact similar surfaces of RNAP present in region 4 of 70 and probably regulate gene expression through this contact.
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Subunit of RNA Polymerase and the Transcriptional Regulators Rsd from Escherichia coli and AlgQ from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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