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Published online 4 February 2004

Nucleic Acids Research, 2004, Vol. 32, No. 2 842-847
© 2004 Oxford University Press

Two mutations in the tetracycline repressor change the inducer anhydrotetracycline to a corepressor

Annette Kamionka, Joanna Bogdanska-Urbaniak, Oliver Scholz and Wolfgang Hillen*

Lehstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Biochemie und Genetik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstrasse 5, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany

*To whom correspondence should be adressed. Tel: +49 9131 85 28081; Fax: +49 9131 85 28082; Email: whillen{at}biologie.uni-erlangen.de

We report for the first time the in vitro characterization of a reverse tetracycline repressor (revTetR). The dimeric wild-type repressor (TetR) binds to tet operator tetO in the absence of the inducer anhydrotetracycline (atc) to confer tight repression. We have isolated the revTetR G96E L205S mutant, which, contrary to TetR, binds tetO only in the presence of atc. This reverse acting mutant was overproduced and purified. Effector and DNA binding properties were analyzed by EMSA and quantified by fluorescence titration and surface plasmon resonance. The association constant KA of revTetR for binding of [atcMg]+ is ~108 M–1, four orders of magnitude lower than that of TetR. The affinity of TetR for tetO is 5.6 ± 2 x 109 M–1 and that for revTetR in the presence of atc is 1 ± 0.2 x 108 M–1. Both induced forms, the atc-bound TetR and the free revTetR, have the same low affinity of 4 ± 1 x 105 M–1 for DNA. Therefore, atc does not act as a dimerization agent for revTetR. We discuss the structural differences between TetR and revTetR potentially underlying this reversal of activity.


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