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Expression of the arsenite oxidation regulatory operon in Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 is under the control of two promoters that respond to different environmental cues

Corsini, PM; Walker, KT; Santini, JM; (2017) Expression of the arsenite oxidation regulatory operon in Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 is under the control of two promoters that respond to different environmental cues. MicrobiologyOpen , 2017 , Article e567. 10.1002/mbo3.567. Green open access

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Abstract

Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 is a gram-negative facultative chemolithoautotrophic arsenite oxidiser that has been used as a model organism to study various aspects of arsenite oxidation including the regulation of arsenite oxidation. The three regulatory genes, aioX, aioS and aioR, are co-transcribed when NT-26 was grown in the presence or absence of arsenite. The aioXSR operon is up-regulated in stationary phase but not by the presence of arsenite in the growth medium. The two transcription start sites upstream of aioX were determined which led to the identification of two promoters, the housekeeping promoter RpoD and the growth-phase dependent promoter RpoE2. Promoter-lacZ fusions confirmed their constitutive and stationary phase expressions. The involvement of the NT-26 sigma factor RpoE2 in acting on the NT-26 RpoE2 promoter was confirmed in vivo in E. coli, which lacks a rpoE2 homologue, using a strain carrying both the promoter-lacZ fusion and the NT-26 rpoE2 gene. An in silico approach was used to search for other RpoE2 promoters and AioR-binding motifs and led to the identification of other genes that could be regulated by these proteins including those involved in quorum sensing, chemotaxis and motility expanding the signalling networks important for the microbial metabolism of arsenite.

Type: Article
Title: Expression of the arsenite oxidation regulatory operon in Rhizobium sp. str. NT-26 is under the control of two promoters that respond to different environmental cues
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.567
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.567
Language: English
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Keywords: Arsenite oxidiser, regulation, Sigma factor, Rhizobium
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Structural and Molecular Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10028065
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