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Query: UNIPROT:P51532 (transcriptional activator)
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OmpR is a transcriptional activator for the ompF and ompC genes of Escherichia coli. Its phosphorylation is mediated by a transmembrane sensory-receptor protein, EnvZ, and is essential for transcriptional activation. In a previous study, when the aspartic acid residue at position 55, the putative phosphorylation site, was replaced with glutamine (D55Q), ompF and ompC expression were completely lost. In this study two pseudorevertants of the D55Q mutation were isolated and identified to be the replacement of threonine at position 83 with alanine (T83A) and glycine at position 94 with serine (G94S). The revertant OmpRs no longer responded to EnvZ function when ompF and ompC expression were examined. The purified D55Q-T83A OmpR was unable to be phosphorylated by EnvZ in vitro. The role of EnvZ as an osmosensor for the environmentally regulated expression of OmpF and OmpC has been indicated in previous studies. The isolation of seemingly EnvZ-independent OmpR revertants in this study, however, made it possible to examine the osmolarity-regulated expression of OmpF and OmpC in the absence of effects exerted by EnvZ. We found that the expression of OmpF and OmpC supported by these revertant OmpRs was clearly regulated in accordance with the change in osmolarity of the growth media. These results indicate that another EnvZ-independent mechanism(s) may also contribute to the regulated expression of the ompF and ompC genes.
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PMID:Intramolecular second-site revertants to the phosphorylation site mutation in OmpR, a kinase-dependent transcriptional activator in Escherichia coli. 164 88

The Tar-EnvZ hybrid molecule (Taz1) is an inner membrane transducer that activates OmpR, a transcriptional activator for porin gene expression (ompC), in response to an aspartic acid signal. Signal transduction by Taz1 most likely involves a phosphorylated Taz1 intermediate that donates its phosphate to OmpR. Phosphorylated OmpR has already been implicated in transcriptional activation of porin genes. Using a cell-free system containing Taz1-enriched membrane fractions, we have examined the phosphorylation properties of Taz1 and the stimulatory effects of divalent and monovalent ions. Highest activation of Taz1 phosphorylation was observed with CaCl2, and its stimulation could be observed with as low as 60 microM of CaCl2. Phosphorylated Taz1 could readily donate its phosphate group to OmpR in the presence of calcium. CaCl2 was also able to enhance phosphorylation of intact membrane-bound EnvZ and a cytoplasmic fragment of EnvZ lacking the receptor and transmembrane domains. These results indicate that the site for CaCl2 stimulation is within the cytoplasmic region of EnvZ and probably involves an enhanced rate of EnvZ phosphorylation.
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PMID:Ca2(+)-enhanced phosphorylation of a chimeric protein kinase involved with bacterial signal transduction. 185 Apr 14

The virulence functions of Yersinia enterocolitica include the pYV-encoded Yop proteins and YadA adhesin as well as the chromosome-encoded enterotoxin, Yst. The yop and yadA genes form a temperature-activated regulon controlled by the transcriptional activator VirF. Gene virF, also localized on pYV, is itself thermoinduced in the absence of other pYV genes. The enterotoxin yst gene is silent in some collection strains including strain W22703. This paper describes two Tn5-Tc1 chromosomal insertion mutants of W22703 transcribing virF, and hence the yop and yadA genes, at low temperature. These mutants also resumed their production of Yst, with its typical temperature dependence. Both mutations were insertions in the same gene called ymoA for 'Yersinia modulator'. The cloned ymoA gene fully complemented the two mutations. Several properties of the mutants suggest that ymoA encodes a histone-like protein. According to the nucleic acid sequence, the product of ymoA is an 8064 Da protein rich in aspartic acid (9%), glutamic acid (9%) and lysine (10.5%), but the predicted amino acid sequence shows no similarity with any described histone-like protein. This work supports recent reports which propose a role for DNA topology and bacterial chromatin structure in thermoregulation of virulence functions.
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PMID:ymoA, a Yersinia enterocolitica chromosomal gene modulating the expression of virulence functions. 195 83

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae PUT3 gene encodes a transcriptional activator that binds to DNA sequences in the promoters of the proline utilization genes and is required for the basal and induced expression of the enzymes of this pathway. The sequence of the wild-type PUT3 gene revealed the presence of one large open reading frame capable of encoding a 979-amino-acid protein. The protein contains amino-terminal basic and cysteine-rich domains homologous to the DNA-binding motifs of other yeast transcriptional activators. Adjacent to these domains is an acidic domain with a net charge of -17. A second acidic domain with a net charge of -29 is located at the carboxy terminus. The midsection of the PUT3 protein has homology to other activators including GAL4, LAC9, PPR1, and PDR1. Mutations in PUT3 causing aberrant (either constitutive or noninducible) expression of target genes in this system have been analyzed. One activator-defective and seven activator-constitutive PUT3 alleles have been retrieved from the genome and sequenced to determine the nucleotide changes responsible for the altered function of the protein. The activator-defective mutation is a single nucleotide change within codon 409, replacing glycine with aspartic acid. One activator-constitutive mutation is a nucleotide change at codon 683, substituting phenylalanine for serine. The remaining constitutive mutations resulted in amino acid substitutions or truncations of the protein within the carboxy-terminal 76 codons. Mechanisms for regulating the activation function of the PUT3 protein are discussed.
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PMID:Analysis of constitutive and noninducible mutations of the PUT3 transcriptional activator. 201 67

The VirG protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens is required in conjunction with the VirA protein for transcriptional activation of the virulence (vir) genes in response to plant phenolic compounds. These proteins are members of a family of two component regulatory systems. vir genes are activated via a cascade of phosphorylation reactions involving a specific aspartic acid residue of the VirG protein. We have conducted a mutational analysis of the VirG protein. By mutating conserved and nonconserved aspartic acid residues in the N-terminal domain, we demonstrated that two of three conserved aspartic acid residues located in two different regions are important for the phosphorylation of VirG by VirA phosphate. A third conserved N-terminal region was also shown to be critical for the biological function of VirG as a transcriptional activator. The identification of phosphorylatable but biologically inactive mutated VirG proteins suggests that not only phosphorylation but also a conformational change is necessary for its activity. We further demonstrated that phosphorylation is not required for sequence-specific binding to a vir gene regulatory sequence (vir box) and that the C-terminal domain is sufficient for DNA binding. The data support the model of a two-domain structure for the VirG protein and demonstrate that the sequence homologies to other two-component regulatory systems reflect both functional and structural homologies.
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PMID:Mutational analysis of the VirG protein, a transcriptional activator of Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence genes. 221 23

Staf is a transcriptional activator of prime importance for enhanced transcription of small nuclear (snRNA) and snRNA-type genes transcribed by RNA polymerases II and III (Pol II and III). In addition to this activity, it also possesses the capacity to stimulate expression from an RNA polymerase II mRNA promoter. This promiscuous activator thus provides a useful model system for studying the mechanism by which one single transcription factor can activate a large variety of promoters. Here, we report the use of in vivo assays to identify the Staf activation domains involved in promoter selectivity. Analysis of Staf mutants reveals the existence of two physically and functionally distinct regions, outside of the DNA binding domain, responsible for mediating selective transcriptional activation. While a 93-amino-acid domain, with the striking presence of four repeated units, is specialized for transcriptional activation of an mRNA promoter, a segment of only 18 amino acids, with a critical Leu-213 residue, acts specifically on Pol II and Pol III snRNA and snRNA-type promoters. In addition, this study disclosed the fundamental importance of invariant leucine and aspartic acid residues located in each repeat unit of the mRNA activation domain. Staf is therefore the first transcriptional activator described so far to harbor two physically and functionally distinct activator domains. This finding suggests that the same activator can contact different, specialized transcription complexes formed on different types of basal promoters through promoter-specific transactivation pathways.
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PMID:Two distinct domains in Staf to selectively activate small nuclear RNA-type and mRNA promoters. 956 84

Asparagine synthetase catalyses the glutamine- and ATP-dependent conversion of aspartic acid to asparagine. In human hepatoma cells cultured in medium containing amino acids, the mRNA of asparagine synthetase is not detectable by RNase protection mapping. However, maintaining the cells in amino acid-free Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate buffer strongly upregulated asparagine synthetase biosynthesis. The effect of amino acid deprivation on asparagine synthetase gene transcription is mediated by a genetic element termed the nutrient-sensing response unit. Previous studies revealed that the basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor CREB2/ATF4 is involved in the nutrient deprivation-induced upregulation of asparagine synthetase gene transcription. Here we show that overexpression of the bZIP protein ATF5, a transcriptional activator, stimulates asparagine synthetase promoter/reporter gene transcription via the nutrient-sensing response unit. In contrast, ATF5 does not transactivate cAMP response element (CRE)-containing reporter genes. Overexpression of the C/EBP homologous transcription factor CHOP impaired transcriptional activation of the asparagine synthetase promoter following amino acid deprivation or over-expression of ATF5 or CREB2/ATF4. These data indicate that CHOP functions as a shut-off-device for nutrient deprivation-induced gene transcription.
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PMID:Regulation of asparagine synthetase gene transcription by the basic region leucine zipper transcription factors ATF5 and CHOP. 1616 12

The host specificity of Ralstonia solanacearum, the causal organism of bacterial wilt on many solanaceous crops, is poorly understood. To identify a gene conferring host specificity of the bacterium, SL341 (virulent to hot pepper but avirulent to potato) and SL2029 (virulent to potato but avirulent to hot pepper) were chosen as representative strains. We identified a gene, rsa1, from SL2029 that confers avirulence to SL341 in hot pepper. The rsa1 gene encoding an 11.8-kDa protein possessed the perfect consensus hrp(II) box motif upstream of the gene. Although the expression of rsa1 was activated by HrpB, a transcriptional activator for hrp gene expression, Rsa1 protein was secreted in an Hrp type III secretion-independent manner. Rsa1 exhibited weak homology with an aspartic protease, cathepsin D, and possessed protease activity. Two specific aspartic protease inhibitors, pepstatin A and diazoacetyl-d,l-norleucine methyl ester, inhibited the protease activity of Rsa1. Substitution of two aspartic acid residues with alanine at positions 54 and 59 abolished protease activity. The SL2029 rsa1 mutant was much less virulent than the wild-type strain, but did not induce disease symptoms in hot pepper. These data indicate that Rsa1 is an extracellular aspartic protease and plays an important role for the virulence of SL2029 in potato.
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PMID:An HrpB-dependent but type III-independent extracellular aspartic protease is a virulence factor of Ralstonia solanacearum. 2145 32

Plant viruses encode movement proteins (MP) to facilitate cell-to-cell transport through plasmodesmata. In this study, using trans-complementation of a movement-defective turnip vein-clearing tobamovirus (TVCV) replicon, we show for the first time for cytorhabdoviruses (lettuce necrotic yellows virus (LNYV) and alfalfa dwarf virus (ADV)) that their P3 proteins function as MP similar to the TVCV P30 protein. All three MP localized to plasmodesmata when ectopically expressed. In addition, we show that these MP belong to the 30K superfamily since movement was inhibited by mutation of an aspartic acid residue in the critical 30K-specific LxD/N50-70G motif. We also report that Nicotiana benthamiana microtubule-associated VOZ1-like transcriptional activator interacts with LNYV P3 and TVCV P30 but not with ADV P3 or any of the MP point mutants. This host protein, which is known to interact with P3 of sonchus yellow net nucleorhabdovirus, may be involved in aiding the cell-to-cell movement of LNYV and TVCV.
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PMID:Cytorhabdovirus P3 genes encode 30K-like cell-to-cell movement proteins. 2670 68