title: Identification of the transcriptional start site of the cyd operon from Escherichia coli.
abstract: The cydAB operon encodes the two subunits of the cytochrome bd ubiquinol oxidase from Escherichia coli. This enzyme is one of two terminal oxidases in the aerobic respiratory chain of E. coli. It has been demonstrated that expression of the cyd operon is transcriptionally regulated by oxygen via both the fnr and arcA gene products. Whereas arcA clearly serves as a positive regulator at low oxygen tension, there is no consensus concerning the role of the fnr gene product (FNR). In this paper, the transcriptional start site of the cyd operon is identified at position -287 with respect to the translational start. This is located 53 basepairs downstream from the center of dyad symmetry of the putative FNR recognition sequence.
authors: School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana.
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Fang
authors: R B
authors: RB
authors: Gennis
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003573:Cytochrome b Group; D003580:Cytochromes / Q000235:genetics*; D045222:Electron Transport Chain Complex Proteins; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon / Q000235:genetics*; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics*; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000096:biosynthesis; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D003573:Cytochrome b Group; D003580:Cytochromes; D045222:Electron Transport Chain Complex Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C040077:cytochrome bd terminal oxidase complex, E coli