Domains formed within the N-terminal region of the quorum-sensing activator TraR are required for transcriptional activation and direct interaction with RpoA from agrobacterium.

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TraR, a quorum-sensing activator, induces transcription from its binding site, the tra-box, located upstream of Ti plasmid target promoters. TraR activated expression of a lacZ reporter in Escherichia coli only when RpoAAt from Agrobacterium tumefaciens was co-expressed. As assessed by gel retardation assays RpoAAt, but not RpoAEc, formed a ternary complex with TraR and a tra-box probe in vitro. TraR formed...

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