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Use of In Vitro Transcription System for Analysis of Corynebacterium glutamicum Promoters Recognized by Two Sigma Factors

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Promoter activities in Corynebacterium glutamicum strains with deletions of genes encoding sigma factors of RNA polymerase suggested that transcription from some promoters is controlled by two sigma factors. To prove that different sigma factors are involved in the recognition of selected Corynebacterium glutamicum promoters, in vitro transcription system was applied. It was found that a typical housekeeping promoter Pper interacts with the alternative sigma factor σB in addition to the primary sigma factor σA. On the other way round, the σB-dependent promoter of the pqo gene that is expressed mainly in the stationary growth phase was active also with σA. Some promoters of genes involved in stress responses (P1clgR, P2dnaK, and P2dnaJ2) were found to be recognized by two stress-responding sigma factors, σH and σE. In vitro transcription system thus proved to be a useful direct technique for demonstrating the overlap of different sigma factors in recognition of individual promoters in C. glutamicum.

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This work was supported by institutional research concept RVO61388971 (Institute of Microbiology CAS).

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    Radoslav Šilar, Jiří Holátko, Lenka Rucká, Andrey Rapoport, Hana Dostálová, Pavla Kadeřábková, Jan Nešvera & Miroslav Pátek

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Šilar, R., Holátko, J., Rucká, L. et al. Use of In Vitro Transcription System for Analysis of Corynebacterium glutamicum Promoters Recognized by Two Sigma Factors. Curr Microbiol 73, 401–408 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-016-1077-x

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