关键词:
Bacterial Proteins/metabolism*
Base Sequence
Biosensing Techniques/methods*
Consensus Sequence
DNA, Bacterial/genetics
DNA, Bacterial/metabolism*
Genome, Bacterial/genetics
Genome, Bacterial/genetics
Neisseria gonorrhoeae/genetics
Neisseria gonorrhoeae/metabolism*
Protein Binding
Regulon/genetics
Repressor Proteins/metabolism*
Substrate Specificity
摘要:
The Ferric uptake regulatory protein (Fur) is a transcriptional regulatory protein that functions to control gene transcription in response to iron in a number of pathogenic bacteria. In this study, we applied a label-free, quantitative and high-throughput analysis method, Interferometric Reflectance Imaging Sensor (IRIS), to rapidly characterize Fur-DNA interactions in vitro with predicted Fur binding sequences in the genome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea. IRIS can easily be applied to examine multiple protein-protein, protein-nucleotide and nucleotide-nucleotide complexes simultaneously and demonstrated here that seventy percent of the predicted Fur boxes in promoter regions of iron-induced genes bound to Fur in vitro with a range of affinities as observed using this microarray screening technology. Combining binding data with mRNA expression levels in a gonococcal fur mutant strain allowed us to identify five new gonococcal genes under Fur-mediated direct regulation.