Multiple mechanisms contribute to osmotic inducibility of proU operon expression in Escherichia coli: demonstration of two osmoresponsive promoters and of a negative regulatory element within the first structural gene.

Abstract excerpt

Transcription of the proU operon in Escherichia coli is induced several hundredfold upon growth of cells in media of elevated osmolarity. A low-copy-number promoter-cloning plasmid vector, with lacZ as the reporter gene, was used for assaying the osmoresponsive promoter activity of each of variou...

Topics

• Base Sequence
• Chromosome Deletion
• DNA, Bacterial
• DNA, Superhelical
• Escherichia coli
• Genes, Bacterial
• Genotype
• Models, Structural
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutagenesis
• Nucleic Acid Conformation
• Operon
• Osmolar Concentration
• Plasmids