title: The role of dor gene products in controlling the P2 promoter of the cytochrome c2 gene, cycA, in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
abstract: This study explores the regulatory networks controlling anaerobic energy production by the facultative phototroph Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The specific aim was to determine why activity of the P2 promoter for the gene (cycA) encoding the essential photosynthetic electron carrier, cytochrome c(2), is decreased when the alternative electron acceptor DMSO is added to photosynthetically grown cells. The presence of DMSO is believed to activate the DorR response regulator, which controls expression of proteins required to reduce DMSO. A DorR(-) strain showed no change in cycA P2 promoter activity when DMSO was added to photosynthetic cells, indicating that DorR was required for the decreased expression in wild-type cells. To test if DorR acted directly at this promoter to change gene expression, recombinant DorR was purified and studied in vitro. Preparations of DorR that were active at other target promoters showed no detectable interaction with cycA P2, suggesting that this protein is not a direct regulator of this promoter. We also found that cycA P2 activity in a DorA(-) strain was not decreased by the addition of DMSO to photosynthetic cells. A model is presented to explain why the presence of a functional DMSO reductase (DorA) is required for DMSO to decrease cycA P2 expression under photosynthetic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Christine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Tavano
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Comolli
authors.affiliation: Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 420 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Donohue
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D003470:Culture Media; D045362:Cytochromes c2 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004121:Dimethyl Sulfoxide / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D010788:Photosynthesis; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012242:Rhodobacter sphaeroides / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003470:Culture Media; C120748:DorR protein, Rhodobacter capsulatus; D007506:Iron-Sulfur Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; D045362:Cytochromes c2; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C045664:dimethyl sulfoxide reductase; D004121:Dimethyl Sulfoxide