The complete nucleotide sequence of the Pasteurella multocida toxin gene and evidence for a transcriptional repressor, TxaR.

Abstract:

:The osteolytic toxin of Pasteurella multocida induces bone resorption in vivo and in vitro (Foged et al., 1988; Kimman et al., 1987). In this report the toxin-encoding toxA gene is sequenced, and the deduced primary structure of the toxin shows a protein of 1285 amino acids, containing a striking homology to a metal-binding motif. Evidence that expression of the toxA gene is repressed at a transcriptional level in Escherichia coli is presented. Repression could be abolished either by deletion of a region upstream of toxA, or by a putative frame-shift mutation in the same region. The repressor protein encoded within this region was efficient in trans, and was named TxaR.

journal_name

Mol Microbiol

journal_title

Molecular microbiology

authors

Petersen SK

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2958.1990.tb00652.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1990-05-01 00:00:00

pages

821-30

issue

5

eissn

0950-382X

issn

1365-2958

journal_volume

4

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