Villanueva, VM and Oldfield, LM and Hatfull, GF
(2015)
An unusual phage repressor encoded by mycobacteriophage BPs.
PLoS ONE, 10 (9).
Abstract
Temperate bacteriophages express transcription repressors that maintain lysogeny by down-regulating lytic promoters and confer superinfection immunity. Repressor regulation is critical to the outcome of infection - lysogenic or lytic growth - as well as prophage induction into lytic replication. Mycobacteriophage BPs and its relatives use an unusual integration- dependent immunity system in which the phage attachment site (attP) is located within the repressor gene (33) such that site-specific integration leads to synthesis of a prophageencoded product (gp33103) that is 33 residues shorter at its C-terminus than the virallyencoded protein (gp33136). However, the shorter form of the repressor (gp33103) is stable and active in repression of the early lytic promoter PR, whereas the longer virally-encoded form (gp33136) is inactive due to targeted degradation via a C-terminal ssrA-like tag. We show here that both forms of the repressor bind similarly to the 33-34 intergenic regulatory region, and that BPs gp33103 is a tetramer in solution. The BPs gp33103 repressor binds to five regulatory regions spanning the BPs genome, and regulates four promoters including the early lytic promoter, PR. BPs gp33103 has a complex pattern of DNA recognition in which a full operator binding site contains two half sites separated by a variable spacer, and BPs gp33103 induces a DNA bend at the full operator site but not a half site. The operator site structure is unusual in that one half site corresponds to a 12 bp palindrome identified previously, but the other half site is a highly variable variant of the palindrome. Copyright:
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Editor | Semsey, Szabolcs | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED | UNSPECIFIED |
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2 September 2015 |
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No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
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PLoS ONE |
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10 |
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9 |
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10.1371/journal.pone.0137187 |
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University of Pittsburgh |
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Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Biological Sciences |
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Yes |
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23 Aug 2016 14:37 |
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22 Jun 2021 12:56 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/28391 |
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