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Time-resolved assembly of a nucleoprotein complex between Shigella flexneri virF promoter and its transcriptional repressor H-NS.


ABSTRACT: The virF gene of Shigella, responsible for triggering the virulence cascade in this pathogenic bacterium, is transcriptionally repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS. The primary binding sites of H-NS within the promoter region of virF have been detected here by footprinting experiments in the presence of H-NS or its monomeric DNA-binding domain (H-NSctd), which displays the same specificity as intact H-NS. Of the 14 short DNA fragments identified, 10 overlap sequences similar to the H-NS binding motif. The 'fast', 'intermediate' and 'slow' H-NS binding events leading to the formation of the nucleoprotein complex responsible for transcription repression have been determined by time-resolved hydroxyl radical footprinting experiments in the presence of full-length H-NS. We demonstrate that this process is completed in ?1 s and H-NS protections occur simultaneously on site I and site II of the virF promoter. Furthermore, all 'fast' protections have been identified in regions containing predicted H-NS binding motifs, in agreement with the hypothesis that H-NS nucleoprotein complex assembles from a few nucleation sites containing high-affinity binding sequences. Finally, data are presented showing that the 22-bp fragment corresponding to one of the HNS binding sites deviates from canonical B-DNA structure at three TpA steps.

SUBMITTER: Ulissi U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245942 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Time-resolved assembly of a nucleoprotein complex between Shigella flexneri virF promoter and its transcriptional repressor H-NS.

Ulissi Ulisse U   Fabbretti Attilio A   Sette Marco M   Giuliodori Anna Maria AM   Spurio Roberto R  

Nucleic acids research 20141111 21


The virF gene of Shigella, responsible for triggering the virulence cascade in this pathogenic bacterium, is transcriptionally repressed by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS. The primary binding sites of H-NS within the promoter region of virF have been detected here by footprinting experiments in the presence of H-NS or its monomeric DNA-binding domain (H-NSctd), which displays the same specificity as intact H-NS. Of the 14 short DNA fragments identified, 10 overlap sequences similar to the  ...[more]

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