title: rbcR [correction of rcbR], a gene coding for a member of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators, is located upstream of the expressed set of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase genes in the photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium vinosum.
abstract: An open reading frame, rbcR, was identified 226 bp upstream of rbcAB, i.e., the ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase genes expressed in the phototrophic purple bacterium Chromatium vinosum. Several features reveal that rbcR encodes a member of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators, in which an anomalous content of lysine and arginine residues (Lys/Arg anomaly) was found. The expression of rbcR in Escherichia coli as a protein fused to the N-terminal region of beta-galactosidase led to reduced expression of rbcAB. Thus, rbcR is likely to encode a trans-acting transcriptional regulator of rbcAB expression in C. vinosum.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquimicas y Farmaceuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Viale
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Akazawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Henikoff
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001120:Arginine / Q000235:genetics; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D002844:Chromatium / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D005809:Genes, Regulator / Q000235:genetics*; D008239:Lysine / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C070136:RbcR protein, Bacteria; D001120:Arginine; D012273:Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase; D008239:Lysine