FlbD of Caulobacter crescentus is a homologue of the NtrC (NRI) protein and activates sigma 54-dependent flagellar gene promoters.
AUTOR(ES)
Ramakrishnan, G
RESUMO
The periodic transcription of flagellar genes in the Caulobacter crescentus cell cycle is controlled, in part, by their organization in a regulatory hierarchy. The flbG (hook operon), flaN, and flagellin gene operons, which are at the lowest levels of the hierarchy and expressed late in the cell cycle, contain Ntr-like promoters. We report that flbD, one of the early genes required in trans for expression of these operons, codes for a 52-kDa protein homologous to the transcriptional activators NtrC (NRI), NifA, DctD, HydG, and XylR. Our results show that in Escherichia coli flbD partially complements glnG (ntrC) mutations and stimulates transcription of the C. crescentus sigma 54 RNA polymerase-dependent flbG gene. Additionally, the sequence predicts that FlbD protein, along with NtrC, DctD, and HydG proteins, is structurally related at the amino-terminal domain to a larger family of response regulators that mediate cellular responses to environmental stimuli. FlbD may be a singular member of this large protein family in that its function is tied to an internal cell-cycle signal. FlbD is also unusual in that its amino-terminal domain contains only one of the three residues conserved in previously described members of this family of response regulators.
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