Regulation of transfer genes of promiscuous IncPα plasmid RK2: repression of Tra1 region transcription both by relaxosome proteins and by the Tra2 regulator TrbA

References

1. Aiba H., Adhya S., de Crombrugghe B. Evidence for two functional gal promoters in intact Escherichia coli cells. J Biol Chem 1981; 256:11905–11910
   [Google Scholar]
2. Balzer D., Ziegelin G., Pansegrau W., Kruft W., Lanka E. KorB protein of promiscuous plasmid RP4 recognizes inverted repetitions in regions essential for conjugative plasmid transfer. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:1851–1858
   [Google Scholar]
3. Barth P.T. RP4 and R300B as wide host-range plasmid cloning vehicles. In Plasmids of Medical, Environmental and Commercial Importance 1979 Edited by Timmis K.N., Pühler A. North Holland: Elsevier; pp 399–410
   [Google Scholar]
4. Birnboim H.C., Doly J. A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids 1979; Resl:1513–1523
   [Google Scholar]
5. Bolivar F., Rodriguez R.L., Greene P.J., Betlach M.C., Heyneker H.L., Boyer H.W., Crosa J.H., Falkow S. Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles II. A multipurpose cloning system. Gene 1977; 2:95
   [Google Scholar]
6. Cole S.P., Lanka E., Guiney D.G. Site-directed mutations in the relaxase operon of RP4. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:4911–4916
   [Google Scholar]
7. Covarrubias L., Bolivar F. Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles VI. Plasmid pBR329, a new derivative of pBR328 lacking 482 base pairs inverted duplication. Gene 1982; 17:79–89
   [Google Scholar]
8. Fürste J.P., Pansegrau W., Ziegelin G., Kröger M., Lanka E. Conjugative transfer of promiscuous IncP plasmids: interaction of plasmid encoded products with the transfer origin. Proc Natl Acad Sei USA 1989; 86:1771–1775
   [Google Scholar]
9. Gornall A.G., Bardwill C.J., David M.M. Determination of serum proteins by means of the biuret reaction. J Biol Chem 1949; 177:751–766
   [Google Scholar]
10. Greener A., Lehman S.M., Helinski D.R. Promoters of the broad host range plasmid RK2: analysis of transcription (initiation) in five species of Gram-negative bacteria. Genetics 1992; 130:27–36
    [Google Scholar]
11. Guiney D.G., Lanka E. Conjugative transfer of IncP plasmids. In Promiscuous Plasmids of Gram-Negative Bacteria 1989 Edited by Thomas C.M. ondon: Academic Press; pp 27–56
    [Google Scholar]
12. Heinemann J.A., Sprague G.F. Bacterial conjugative plasmids mobilize DNA transfer between bacteria and yeast. Nature 1989; 340:205–209
    [Google Scholar]
13. Holloway B.W., Richmond M.H. R-factors used for genetic studies in strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and their origin. Genet Res 1973; 21:103–105
    [Google Scholar]
14. Jagura-Burdzy G., Thomas C.M. KorA protein of promiscuous plasmid RK2 controls a transcriptional switch between divergent operons for plasmid replication and conjugative transfer. Proc Natl Acad Sei USA 1994; 91 (in press)
    [Google Scholar]
15. Jagura-Burdzy G., Ibbotson J.P., Thomas C.M. The korF region of broad host range plasmid RK2 encodes two polypeptides with transcriptional repressor activity. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:826–833
    [Google Scholar]
16. Jagura-Burdzy G., Khanim F., Smith C.A., Thomas C.M. Crosstalk between plasmid vegetative replication and conjugative transfer: repression of the trfA operon by trbA of broad host range plasmid RK2. Nucleic Acids Res 1992; 20:3939–3944
    [Google Scholar]
17. Kahn M., Kolter R., Thomas C., Figurski D., Meyer R., Remaut E., Helinski D.R. Plasmid cloning vehicle derived from ColEl, F, R6K and RK2. Methods Enzymol 1979; 68:268–280
    [Google Scholar]
18. Lanka E., Barth P.T. Plasmid RP4 specifies a deoxyribonucleic acid primase involved in its conjugal transfer and maintenance. J Bacteriol 1981; 148:769–781
    [Google Scholar]
19. Lanka E., Lurz R., Kröger M., Fürste J.P. Plasmid RP4 encodes two forms of DNA primase. Mol & Gen Genet 1984; 194:65–72
    [Google Scholar]
20. Lessl M., Balzer D., Weyrauch K., Lanka E. The mating pair formation system of plasmid RP4 defined by RSF1010 mobilization and donor-specific phage propagation. J Bacteriol 1993; 175:6415–6425
    [Google Scholar]
21. Lessl M., Balzer D., Lurz R., Waters V., Guiney D.G., Lanka E. Dissection of IncP conjugative plasmid transfer: definition of the transfer region Tra2 by mobilization of the Tral region in trans. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:2493–2500
    [Google Scholar]
22. McKenney K., Shimatake H., Court D., Schmeissner U., Brady C., Rosenberg M. A system to study promoter and terminator signals recognized by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. In Gene Amplification and Analysis 1981 Edited by Chirikjian J.C., Papas T.S. msterdam: Elsevier/North Holland; 2 pp 383–415
    [Google Scholar]
23. Motallebi-Veshareh M., Balzer D., Lanka E., Jagura-Burdzy G., Thomas C.M. Conjugative transfer functions of broad host range plasmid RK2 are coregulated with vegetative replication. Mol Microbiol 1992; 6:907–920
    [Google Scholar]
24. Mullis K., Falona F., Scharf S., Saiki R., Horn G., Erlich H. Specific enzymatic amplification of DNA in vitro: the polymerase chain reaction. Cold Spring Harbor Symp Quant Biol 1986; 51:263–273
    [Google Scholar]
25. Pansegrau W., Balzer D., Kruft V., Lurz R., Lanka E. In vitro assembly of relaxosome at the transfer origin of plasmid RP4. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1990; 87:6555–6559
    [Google Scholar]
26. Pansegrau W., Schroder W., Lanka E. Relaxase (Tral) of IncP plasmid RP4 catalyses a site-specific cleaving-joining reaction of single stranded DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1993; 90:2925–2929
    [Google Scholar]
27. Pansegrau W., Lanka E., Barth P.T., Figurski D.H., Guiney D.G., Haas D., Helinski D.R., Schwab H., Stanisich V.A., Thomas C.M. Complete nucleotide sequence of Birmingham IncPα plasmids: compilation and comparative analysis. J Mol Biol 1994; 239:623–663
    [Google Scholar]
28. Sambrook J., Fritsch E.F., Maniatis T. Molecular Cloning: a Eaboratory Manual 1989, 2nd edn. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory;
    [Google Scholar]
29. Sanger F., Nicklen S., Coulson A.R. DNA sequencing with chain terminating inhibitors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1977; 74:5463–5467
    [Google Scholar]
30. Shingler V., Thomas C.M. Transcription in the trfA region of broad host range plasmid RK2 is regulated by trfB and korB. Mol & Gen Genet 1984a; 195:523–529
    [Google Scholar]
31. Shingler V., Thomas C.M. Analysis of trfA region of broad host range plasmid RK2 by transposon mutagenesis and identification of the polypeptide products. J Mol Biol 1984b; 175:229–250
    [Google Scholar]
32. Sikorski R.S., Michaud W., Levin H.L., Boeke J.P., Hieter P. Trans-kingdom promiscuity. Nature 1990; 345:581–582
    [Google Scholar]
33. Smith C.A., Thomas C.M. Deletion mapping of kil and kor functions in the trfA and trfB regions of broad host range plasmid RK2. Mol & Gen Genet 1983; 190:245–254
    [Google Scholar]
34. Thomas C.M. Complementation analysis of replication and maintenance functions of broad host range plasmid RK2 and RP1. Plasmid 1981; 5:277–291
    [Google Scholar]
35. Thomas C.M., Helinski D.R. Vegetative replication and stable inheritance of IncP plasmids. In Promiscuous Plasmids of GramNegative Bacteria 1989 Edited by Thomas C.M. London: Academic Press; pp 1–25
    [Google Scholar]
36. Thomas C.M., Hussain A.A.K. The korB gene of broad host range plasmid RK2 is a major copy number control element which may act together with trfB by limiting trfA expression. EMBO J 1984; 3:1513–1519
    [Google Scholar]
37. Thomas C.M., Smith C.A. Incompatibility group P plasmids: genetics, evolution and use in genetic manipulation. Annu Rev Microbiol 1987; 41:77–101
    [Google Scholar]
38. Thomson V.J., Jovanovic O.S., Pohlman R.F., Chang C.-H., Figurski D.H. Structure, function and regulation of the kilB locus of promiscuous plasmid RK2. J Bacteriol 1992; 175:2423–2435
    [Google Scholar]
39. Trieu-Cuot P., Carlier C., Martin P., Courvalin P. Plasmid transfer by conjugation from Escherichia coli to Grampositive bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1987; 48:289–294
    [Google Scholar]
40. Williams D.R., Young D.I., Young M. Conjugative plasmid transfer from Escherichia coli to Clostridium acetobutylicum. J Gen Microbiol 1990; 136:819–826
    [Google Scholar]
41. Williams D.R., Motallebi-Veshareh M., Thomas C.M. Multifunctional repressor KorB can block transcription by preventing isomerization of RNA polymerase-promoter complexes. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:1141–1148
    [Google Scholar]
42. Winans S.C., Walker G.C. Fertility inhibition of RP1 by IncN plasmid pKMIOl. J Bacteriol 1985; 161:425–427
    [Google Scholar]
43. Ziegelin G., Fürste J.P., Lanka E. Traj protein of plasmid RP4 binds to a 19 base pair invert sequence repetition within the transfer origin. J Biol Chem 1989; 264:11989–11994
    [Google Scholar]
44. Ziegelin G., Pansegrau W., Strack B., Balzer D., Kröger M., Kruft V., Lanka E. Nucleotide sequence and organization of genes flanking the transfer origin of promiscuous plasmid RP4. DNA Sequence 1991; 1:303–327
    [Google Scholar]
45. Ziegelin G., Pansegrau W., Lurz R., Lanka E. TraK protein of conjugative plasmid RP4 forms a specialized nucleoprotein complex with the transfer origin. J Biol Chem 1992; 267:17279–17286
    [Google Scholar]
46. Zukowski M.M., Gaffney D.F., Speck D., Kauffman M., Findeli A., Wisecup A., Lecocq J.-P. Chromogenic identification of genetic regulatory signals in Bacillus subtilis based on expression of a cloned Pseudomonas gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1983; 80:1101–1105
    [Google Scholar]