Nutrient Regulation of Gene Expression
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The majority of bacterial promoters are regulated by at least two transcription factors. Many of these promoters are regulated by two activators, with expression being co-dependent on the activity of both activators [l] . At most of these promoters, one of the activators responds to a ‘global’ regulatory signal whilst the other responds to a ‘specific’ signal. For example, transcription initiation at the Escherichia coli nu& promoter is induced by oxygen starvation (a global signal, interpreted by the global regulator, FNR) and nitrate ions (a specific metabolic signal, interpreted by NarL). The E. coli nu& promoter is co-dependent on FNR and NarL. We are interested in understanding the mechanisms by which expression from a promoter can be codependent on two activators. In recent studies with promoters regulated by single transcription activators, we have demonstrated that direct protein-protein interaction between the activator and RNA polymerase (NAP) is essential for transcription activation. A number of studies have shown that RNAP carries two separate contact sites for such activators: one is located in the C-terminal domain of the a-subunit (aCTD) whilst the other is near the C-terminus of the a-subunit (reviewed in [2,3]). Most activators that make contact with a bind just upstream of the -35 region, whilst activators that contact aCTD generally bind further upstream. This suggests a simple model to explain co-dependence on two activators, illustrated in Figure 1, in which one of
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