Abstract:
:Vegetative replication and partitioning of many plasmids and some chromosomes of alphaproteobacteria are directed by their repABC operons. RepA and RepB proteins direct the partitioning of replicons to daughter cells, while RepC proteins are replication initiators, although they do not resemble any characterized replication initiation protein. Here we show that the replication origin of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid resides fully within its repC gene. Purified RepC bound to a site within repC with moderate affinity, high specificity and with twofold cooperativity. The binding site was localized to an AT-rich region that contains a large number of GANTC sites, which have been implicated in replication regulation in related organisms. A fragment of RepC containing residues 26-158 was sufficient to bind DNA, although with limited sequence specificity. This portion of RepC is predicted to have structural homology to members of the MarR family of transcription factors. Overexpression of RepC in A. tumefaciens caused large increases in copy number in cis but did not change the copy number of plasmids containing the same oriV sequence in trans, confirming other observations that RepC functions only in cis.
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Mol Microbioljournal_title
Molecular microbiologyauthors
Pinto UM,Flores-Mireles AL,Costa ED,Winans SCdoi
10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07789.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-09-01 00:00:00pages
1593-606issue
6eissn
0950-382Xissn
1365-2958journal_volume
81pub_type
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