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Nucleic Acids Research, 1989, Vol. 17, No. 19 7681-7692
© 1989

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The cl repressor of bacteriophage P1 operator-repressor interaction of wild-type and mutant repressor proteins

Jochen Hemrich, Hans-Dieter Riedel, Barbara R. Baumstark1, Makoto Kimura+, and Heinz Suhuster*,

Max-Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik Berlin 33, FRG 1Department of Biology, Georgia State University Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

+Present address: Laboratory of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received April 10, 1989. Revised July 7, 1989. Accepted August 29, 1989.

The cl repressor gene of bacteriophage P1 and the temperature-sensitive mutants P1cl.100 and P1cl.162 was cloned into an expression vector and the repressor proteins were overproduced. A rapid purification procedure was required for the isolation of the thermolabile repressor proteins. Identification of the highly purified protein of an apparent molecular weight of 33,000 as the product of the cl gene was verified by (i) the coincidence of partial amino acid sequences determined experimentally to that deduced from the cl DNA sequence, and (ii) the temperature-sensitive binding to the operator DNA of the thermolabile repressor proteins. Analysis of the products of cl-cl.100 recombinant DNAs relates the thermolability to an unknown alteration in the C-terminal half of the cl.100 repressor. Binding to the operator DNA of cl repressor is sensitive to N-ethylmaleimide. Since the only three cysteine residues are located in the C-terminal half of the repressor it is suggested that this part of the molecule is important for the binding to the operator DNA. This assumption is supported by the findings that a 14-kDa C-terminal repressor fragment obtained by cyanogen bromide cleavage retains DNA binding properties.


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