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The human pathogen Mycoplasma genitalium employs homologous recombination to generate antigenic diversity in the immunodominant MgpB and MgpC proteins. Only recently, some of the molecular factors involved in this process have been characterized, but nothing is known about its regulation. Here, we show that M. genitalium expresses N‐terminally truncated RecA isoforms via alternative translation initiation, but only the full‐length protein is essential for gene variation. We also demonstrate that overexpression of MG428 positively regulates the expression of recombination genes, including recA, ruvA, ruvB and ORF2, a gene of unknown function co‐transcribed with ruvAB. The co‐ordinated induction of these genes correlated with an increase of mgpBC gene variation. In contrast, cells lacking MG428 were unable to generate variants despite expressing normal levels of RecA. Similarly, deletion analyses of the recA upstream region defined sequences required for gene variation without abolishing RecA expression. The requirement of these sequences is consistent with the presence of promoter elements associated with MG428‐dependent recA induction. Sequences upstream of recA also influence the relative abundance of RecA isoforms, possibly through translational regulation. Overall, these results suggest that MG428 is a positive regulator of recombination and that precise control of recA expression is required to initiate mgpBC variation. 相似文献
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RpoS (Sigma-S) Controls Expression of rsmA, a Global Regulator of Secondary Metabolites, Harpin, and Extracellular Proteins in Erwinia carotovora 下载免费PDF全文
Asita Mukherjee Yaya Cui Weilei Ma Yang Liu Akira Ishihama Abraham Eisenstark Arun K. Chatterjee 《Journal of bacteriology》1998,180(14):3629-3634
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Region 4 of sigma as a target for transcription regulation 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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