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J Biol Chem, Vol. 273, Issue 32, 20568-20574, August 7, 1998

A HU-like Protein Binds to Specific Sites within nod Promoters of Rhizobium leguminosarum

From the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 320 Yue-Yang Road, Shanghai 200031, China

Nodulation genes (nod) of rhizobia are essential for establishment of its symbiosis with specific legume hosts and are usually located on the Sym(biosis) megaplasmid. In this work we identified a new Sym plasmid independent protein in Rhizobium leguminosarum, Px, by its ability to bind to nod promoters and induce DNA bending. Depending upon its concentrations relative to DNA templates, Px could either stimulate or inhibit in vitro transcription of the major regulatory nodulation gene nodD. This may result from its property to bind to specific sites within nod promoters at lower concentration or in the presence of competitor calf thymus DNA but nonspecifically associate with DNA at higher levels or in the absence of competitors. Its binding sites within nodD and nodF promoters were determined by DNase I footprinting but showed no sequence consensus. N-terminal sequencing and Western blot revealed that Px belongs to the HU class of prokaryotic histone-like proteins. Its binding feature and functioning mechanism were discussed in the light of this discovery.

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