Negative regulatory loci coupling flagellin synthesis to flagellar assembly in Salmonella typhimurium.
AUTOR(ES)
Gillen, K L
RESUMO
The complex regulation of flagellin gene expression in Salmonella typhimurium was characterized in vivo by using lac transcriptional fusions to the two flagellin structural genes (fliC [H1] and fljB [H2]). Phase variation was measured as the rate of switching of flagellin gene expression. Switching frequencies varied from 1/500 per cell per generation to 1/10,000 per cell per generation depending on the particular insertion and the direction of switching. There is a 4- to 20-fold bias in favor of switching from the fljB(On) to the fljB(Off) orientation. Random Tn10dTc insertions were isolated which failed to express flagellin. While most of these insertions mapped to loci known to be required for flagellin expression, several new loci were identified. The presence of functional copies of all of the genes responsible for complete flagellar assembly, except the hook-associated proteins (flgK, flgL, and fliD gene products), were required for expression of the fliC or fljB flagellin genes. Two novel loci involved in negative regulation of fliC and fljB in fla mutant backgrounds were identified. One of these loci, designated the flgR locus, mapped to the flg operon at 23 min on the Salmonella linkage map. An flgR insertion mutation resulted in relief of repression of the fliC and fljB genes in all fla mutant backgrounds except for mutants in the positive regulatory loci (flhC, flhD, and fliA genes).
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