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Activation of the Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora pectin lyase structural gene pnIA: a role for RdgB

Department of Plant Pathology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 108 Waters Hall, MO 65211, USA

ABSTRACT

The activation of pectin lyase (Pnl) production in Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora strain 71 occurs upon DNA damage via a unique regulatory circuit involving recA, rdgA and rdgB. In a similar Pnl-inducible system reconstituted in Escherichia coli, the rdgB product was found to activate the expression of pnIA, the structural gene for pectin lyase. The kinetic data presented here also show that transcription of pnIA followed that of rdgB in Er. carotovora subsp. carotovora, indicating a temporal order of gene expression. By deletion analysis we have localized the promoter/regulatory region within a 66 bp DNA segment upstream of the pnIA transcriptional start site. This region contains the -10 consensus sequence but not the sequences corresponding to the E. coli -35 region. For DNA-binding studies, rdgB was overexpressed in E. coli and a 14 kDa polypeptide was identified as the gene product. RdgB from crude extracts or a purified preparation caused an identical gel mobility shift of a 164 bp DNA segment containing the pnIA promoter/regulatory region. Utilizing DNase I protection assay the RdgB-binding site was localized between nucleotides -29 and -56, i.e. overlapping the position of the putative -35 box. The findings reported here, taken along with our previous observation that the rdgB product is required for pnIA expression, establishes that rdgB encodes a transcriptional factor which specifically interacts with the pnIA promoter/regulatory region.

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