RepC protein of the octopine-type Ti plasmid binds to the probable origin of replication within repC and functions only in cis.

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.

journal_name

Mol Microbiol

journal_title

Molecular microbiology

authors

Pinto UM,Flores-Mireles AL,Costa ED,Winans SC

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07789.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1593-606

issue

6

eissn

0950-382X

issn

1365-2958

journal_volume

81

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