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ArticlemBio2023

Escherichia coli Leucine-Responsive Regulatory Protein Bridges DNA

Christine A Ziegler, Lydia Freddolino

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Article in mBio, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christine A ZieglerDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Lydia FreddolinoDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5821-4226
University of Michigan · US

Funding

PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN GENETICST32GM007544 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MORAN, JOHN V. · 1985 to 2022
$11.3M
Building a unified framework for understanding bacterial gene regulation and chromosomal architectureR35GM128637 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Lydia Petra Freddolino · 2018 to 2026
$3.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128637NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Feast-famine response proteins are a widely conserved class of global regulators in prokaryotes, the most highly studied of which is the Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp). Lrp senses the environmental nutrition status and subsequently regulates up to one-third of the genes in E. coli, either directly or indirectly. Lrp exists predominantly as octamers and hexadecamers (16mers), where leucine is believed to shift the equilibrium toward the octameric state. In this study, we analyzed the effects of three oligomerization state mutants of Lrp in terms of their ability to bind to DNA and regulate gene expression in response to exogenous leucine. We find that oligomerization beyond dimers is required for Lrp's regulatory activity and that, contrary to previous speculation, exogenous leucine modulates Lrp activity at its target promoters exclusively by inhibiting Lrp binding to DNA. We also show evidence that Lrp binding bridges DNA over length scales of multiple kilobases, revealing a new range of mechanisms for Lrp-mediated transcriptional regulation.

Indexed as

Escherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsBacteriaBacterial ProteinsDNADNA-Binding ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialLeucineLeucine-Responsive Regulatory ProteinTranscription FactorsBacterial ProteinsDNADNA-Binding ProteinsEscherichia coli ProteinsLeucineLeucine-Responsive Regulatory ProteinTranscription FactorsDNA bridgingFFRPglobal regulatorLrptranscriptional regulation

Identifiers

PMID36786566
PMCPMC10127797
OpenAlexW4320710314

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