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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2011

Activity of the Rhodopseudomonas palustris p-coumaroyl-homoserine lactone-responsive transcription factor RpaR.

Hidetada Hirakawa, Yasuhiro Oda, Somsak Phattarasukol, Christopher D Armour, John C Castle, Christopher K Raymond, Colin R Lappala, Amy L Schaefer, Caroline S Harwood, E Peter Greenberg

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hidetada HirakawaDepartment of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-7242, USA.
Yasuhiro Oda
Somsak Phattarasukol
Christopher D Armour
John C Castle
Christopher K Raymond
Colin R Lappala
Amy L Schaefer
Caroline S Harwood
E Peter Greenberg
University of Washington · USRosetta Stone (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Rhodopseudomonas palustris transcriptional regulator RpaR responds to the RpaI-synthesized quorum-sensing signal p-coumaroyl-homoserine lactone (pC-HSL). Other characterized RpaR homologs respond to fatty acyl-HSLs. We show here that RpaR functions as a transcriptional activator, which binds directly to the rpaI promoter. We developed an RNAseq method that does not require a ribosome depletion step to define a set of transcripts regulated by pC-HSL and RpaR. The transcripts include several noncoding RNAs. A footprint analysis showed that purified His-tagged RpaR (His(6)-RpaR) binds to an inverted repeat element centered 48.5 bp upstream of the rpaI transcript start site, which we mapped by S1 nuclease protection and primer extension analyses. Although pC-HSL-RpaR bound to rpaI promoter DNA, it did not bind to the promoter regions of a number of RpaR-regulated genes not in the rpaI operon. This indicates that RpaR control of these other genes is indirect. Because the RNAseq analysis allowed us to track transcript strand specificity, we discovered that there is pC-HSL-RpaR-activated antisense transcription of rpaR. These data raise the possibility that this antisense RNA or other RpaR-activated noncoding RNAs mediate the indirect activation of genes in the RpaR-controlled regulon.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialSignal Transduction4-ButyrolactoneBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialDNA FootprintingPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingRhodopseudomonasTranscription Factors4-ButyrolactoneBacterial ProteinsDNA, Bacterialhomoserine lactoneTranscription Factors

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PMID21378182
PMCPMC3133176
OpenAlexW2048226096

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