Characterization of bacteriophage T4 early promoters in vivo with a new promoter probe vector

Plasmid

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 108-120

  Wilkens, Kai ^a   Rüger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 17544402148     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. AN, G., AND FRIESEN, J. D. (1979). Plasmid vehicles for direct cloning of Escherichia coli promoters. J. Bacteriol. 140, 400-407.
2. AUSUBEL, F. A., BRENT, R., KINGSTON, R. E., MOORE, D. D., SEIDMAN, J. G., SMITH, J. A., AND STRUHL, K. (1995). "Current Protocols in Molecular Biology." Greene Pub., Wiley-Interscience, New York.
3. BIRNBOIM, H. C., AND DOLY, J. (1979). A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 7, 1513-1523.
4. BLATTER, E. E., ROSS, W., TANG, H., GOURSE, R. L., AND EBRIGHT, R. H. (1994). Domain organization of RNA polymerase alpha subunit: C-terminal 85 amino acids constitute a domain capable of dimerization and DNA binding. Cell 78, 889-896.
5. BREIDT, F. J., AND STEWART, G. C. (1986). Cloning and expression of the phospho-beta-galactosidase gene of Staphylococcus aureus in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 166, 1061-1066.
6. BREIDT, F. J., AND STEWART, G. C. (1987). Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of the Staphylococcus aureus phospho-beta-galactosidase gene. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53, 969-973.
7. BROSIUS, J. (1984). Plasmid vectors for the selection of promoters. Gene 27, 151-160.
8. BUSBY, S., AND EBRIGHT, R. H. (1994). Promoter structure, promoter recognition, and transcription activation in prokaryotes. Cell 79, 743-746.
9. CASADABAN, M. J., AND COHEN, S. N. (1979). Lactose genes fused to exogenous promoters in one step using a Mu-lac bacteriophage: In vivo probe for transcriptional control sequences. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76, 4530-4533.
10. CHAK, K. F., AND JAMES, R. (1985). Analysis of the promoters for the two immunity genes present in the ColE3-CA38 plasmid using two new promoter probe vectors. Nucleic Acids Res. 13, 2519-2531.
11. DEUSCHLE, U., KAMMERER, W., GENTZ, R., AND BUJARD, H. (1986). Promoters of Escherichia coli: A hierarchy of in vivo strength indicates alternate structures. EMBO J. 5, 2987-2994.
12. DUNN, J. J., AND STUDIER, F. W. (1983). Complete nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage T7 DNA and the locations of T7 genetic elements. J. Mol. Biol. 166, 477-535.
13. ENGER-VALK, B. E., VAN ROTTERDAM, J., Kos, A., AND POUWELS, P. H. (1981). Construction of new vectors for cloning of promoters. Gene 15, 297-305.
14. GENTZ, R., AND BUJARD, H. (1985). Promoters recognized by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase selected by function: highly efficient promoters from bacteriophage T 5. J. Bacteriol. 164, 70-77.
15. GENTZ, R., LANGNER, A., CHANG, A. C., COHEN, S. N., AND BUJARD, H. (1981). Cloning and analysis of strong promoters is made possible by the downstream placement of a RNA termination signal. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 4936-4940.
16. GRAM, H., LIEBIG, H. D., HACK, A., NIGGEMANN, E., AND RÜGER, W. (1984). A physical map of bacteriophage T4 including the positions of strong promoters and terminators recognized in vitro. Mol. Gen. Genet. 194, 232-240.
17. GRIBSKOV, M., AND BURGESS, R. R. (1986). Sigma factors from E. coli, B. subtilis, phage SP01, and phage T4 are homologous proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 14, 6745-6763.
18. HENGSTENBERG, W., EGAN, J. B., AND MORSE, M. L. (1967). Carbohydrate transport in Staphylococcus aureus. V. The accumulation of phosphorylated carbohydrate derivatives, and evidence for a new enzyme-splitting lactose phosphate. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 58, 274-279.
19. HENGSTENBERG, W., AND MORSE, M. L. (1968). Synthesis of o-nitrophenyl-β-D-galactoside 6-phosphate, a substrate of the staphylococcal β-D-galactosidase. Carbohydr. Res. 7, 180-183.
20. IGARASHI, K., AND ISHIHAMA, A. (1991). Bipartite functional map of the E. coli RNA polymerase alpha sub-unit: involvement of the C-terminal region in transcription activation by cAMP-CRP. Cell 65, 1015-1022.
21. KEILTY, S., AND ROSENBERG, M. (1987). Constitutive function of a positively regulated promoter reveals new sequences essential for activity. J. Biol. Chem. 262, 6389-6395.
22. KLOTSKY, R. A., AND SCHWARTZ, I. (1987). Measurement of cat expression from growth-rate-regulated promoters employing beta-lactamase activity as an indicator of plasmid copy number. Gene 55, 141-146.
23. KNAUS, R., AND BUJARD, H. (1988). PL of coliphage lambda: An alternative solution for an efficient promoter. EMBO J. 7, 2919-2923.
24. KNAUS, R., AND BUJARD, H. (1990). Principles governing the activity of E. coli promoters. In "Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology" (F. Eckstein and D. M. J. Lilley, Eds.), Vol. 4, pp. 110-122. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
25. KOCH, T., RAUDONIKIENE, A., WILKENS, K., AND RÜGER, W. (1995). Overexpression, purification, and characterization of the ADP-ribosyltransferase (gpAlt) of bacteriophage T4: ADP-ribosylation of E. coli RNA polymerase modulates T4 "early" transcription. Gene Expression 4, 253-264.
26. KSENZENKO, V. N., WILKENS, K., RÜGER, W., AND SHLYAPNIKOV, M. G. (1992). Nucleotide sequence of the phage T5 DNA segment containing six tRNA genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 20, 6104.
27. KUMAR, A., MALLOCH, R. A., FUJITA, N., SMILLIE, D. A., ISHIHAMA, A., AND HAYWARD, R. S. (1993). The minus 35-recognition region of Escherichia coli sigma 70 is inessential for initiation of transcription at an "extended minus 10" promoter. J. Mol. Biol. 232, 406-418.
28. KUTTER, E., STIDHAM, T., GUTTMAN, B., BATTS, D., PETERSON, S., DJAVAKHISHVILI, T., ARISAKA, F., MESYANZHINOV, V., RÜGER, W., AND MOSIG, G. (1994). Genomic map of bacteriophage T 4. In "Molecular Biology of Bacteriophage T4" (J. D. Karam, J. W. Drake, K. N. Kreuzer, G. Mosig, D. H. Hall, F. A. Eiserling, L. W. Black, E. K. Spicer, E. Kutter, K. Carlson, and E. S. Miller, Eds.), pp. 28-42. ASM Press, Washington DC.
29. LANG, B. F., AND BURGER, G. (1990). A rapid, high resolution DNA sequencing gel system. Anal. Biochem. 188, 176-180.
30. LEGRICE, S. F., AND MATZURA, H. (1981). Binding of RNA polymerase and the catabolite gene activator protein within the cat promoter in Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol. 150, 185-196.
31. LIEBIG, H. D., AND RÜGER, W. (1989). Bacteriophage T4 early promoter regions: Consensus sequences of promoters and ribosome-binding sites. J. Mol. Biol. 208, 517-536.
32. MIURA, A., KRUEGER, J. H., ITOH, S., DE BOER, H. A., AND NOMURA, M. (1981). Growth-rate-dependent regulation of ribosome synthesis in E. coli: expression of the lacZ and galK genes fused to ribosomal promoters. Cell 25, 773-782.
33. RICHARDSON, J. P. (1991). Preventing the synthesis of unused transcripts by Rho factor. Cell 64, 1047-1049.
34. RODRIGUEZ, R. L., WEST, R. W., HEYNEKER, H. L., BOLIVAR, F., AND BOYER, H. W. (1979). Characterizing wild-type and mutant promoters of the tetracycline resistance gene in pBR313. Nucleic Acids Res. 6, 3267-3287.
35. ROSS, W., GOSINK, K. K., SALOMON, J., IGARASHI, K., ZOU, C., ISHIHAMA, A., SEVERINOV, K., AND GOURSE, R. L. (1993). A third recognition element in bacterial promoters: DNA binding by the alpha subunit of RNA polymerase. Science 262, 1407-1413.
36. TABOR, S., AND RICHARDSON, C. C. (1985). A bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase/promoter system for controlled exclusive expression of specific genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 1074-1078.
37. TABOR, S., AND RICHARDSON, C. C. (1989). Effect of manganese ions on the incorporation of dideoxynucleotides by bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase and Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86, 4076-4080.
38. WEI, P., AND STEWART, C. R. (1993). A cytotoxic early gene of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPO 1. J. Bacteriol. 175, 7887-7900.
39. WEST, R. W. J., NEVE, R. L., AND RODRIGUEZ, R. L. (1979). Construction and characterization of E. coli promoter-probe plasmid vectors. I. Cloning of promoter-containing DNA fragments. Gene 7, 271-288.
40. WIDERA, G., GAUTIER, F., LINDENMAIER, W., AND COLLINS, J. (1978). The expression of tetracycline resistance after insertion of foreign DNA fragments between the EcoRI and HindIII sites of the plasmid cloning vector pBR 322. Mol. Gen. Genet. 163, 301-305.
41. WILKENS, K., AND RÜGER, W. (1994). Transcription from early promoters. In "Molecular Biology of Bacteriophage T4" (J. D. Karam, J. W. Drake, K. N. Kreuzer, G. Mosig, D. H. Hall, F. A. Eiserling, L. W. Black, E. K. Spicer, E. Kutter, K. Carlson, and E. S. Miller, Eds.), pp. 28-42. ASM Press, Washington DC.