Abstract:
:Most of the genes required for the conjugative transfer of DNA are encoded by the 33 kb transfer (tra) operon of F-like conjugative plasmids. Transcription of the tra operon is positively regulated by the TraJ transcriptional activator which, in turn, is negatively regulated by the FinOP fertility inhibition system. The FinOP system consists of an antisense RNA, FinP, and a 21.2 kDa protein, FinO, which together inhibit TraJ expression. Previously, it has been demonstrated that FinO increases the in vivo stability of the FinP RNA in the absence of the traJ mRNA target. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays, we have shown that FinO is an RNA-binding protein that binds to one of the two stem-loops in FinP and to its complementary structure in traJ mRNA. This interaction presumably protects FinP RNA from degradation in vivo and increases the rate of formation of the FinP-traJ mRNA duplex fivefold. Thus, TraJ expression appears to be influenced by a unique RNA-protein interaction that precedes duplex formation between the FinP antisense RNA and its target traJ mRNA.
journal_name
Mol Microbioljournal_title
Molecular microbiologyauthors
van Biesen T,Frost LSdoi
10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb02177.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-11-01 00:00:00pages
427-36issue
3eissn
0950-382Xissn
1365-2958journal_volume
14pub_type
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