Abstract
The regulatory region of the plasmid-encoded arsenical resistance (ars) operon was cloned as a 727-bp EcoRI-HindIII fragment. When cloned into a promoter probe vector this fragment conferred arsenite inducible tetracycline resistance in Escherichia coli, indicating that the fragment carried a regulatory gene, the arsR gene. A single region corresponding to −35 and −10 promoter recognition sites was identified. The transcriptional start site of the mRNA was determined by primer extension. The sequence has an open reading frame for a potential 13,179 Da polypeptide, termed the ArsR protein. The fragment was cloned into a temperature regulated expression vector. A protein with an apparent molecular mass of about 12 kDa was induced by either temperature or arsenite. This protein was purified and used to produce antibodies specific for the ArsR protein.
Department
Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences
Publication Date
2-11-1990
Journal Title
Nucleic Acids Research
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
San Francisco, M.J.D., C.L. Hope, J.B. Owolabi, L.S. Tisa, and B.P. Rosen. 1990. Identification of the metalloregulatory element of element of the plasmid-encoded arsenical resistance operon. Nucleic Acids Res. 18:619-624.
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Comments
This is an article published in Nucleic Acids Research. The version of record San Francisco, M.J.D., C.L. Hope, J.B. Owolabi, L.S. Tisa, and B.P. Rosen. 1990. Identification of the metalloregulatory element of element of the plasmid-encoded arsenical resistance operon. Nucleic Acids Res. 18:619-624. is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/18.3.619