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Abstract

The anaerobic nitrate reductase operon is repressed by a transcriptional regulator, ArnR, under aerobic conditions. A consensus binding site of the cAMP receptor protein (CRP)-type regulator, GlxR, was recently found upstream of the ArnR binding site in the promoter region. Here we investigated the involvement of GlxR and cAMP in expression of the operon . Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that the putative GlxR binding motif in the promoter region is essential for the cAMP-dependent binding of GlxR. Promoter-reporter assays showed that mutation in the GlxR binding site resulted in significant reduction of promoter activity. Furthermore, a deletion mutant of the adenylate cyclase gene , which is involved in cAMP synthesis, exhibited a decrease in both promoter activity and nitrate reductase activity. These results demonstrated that GlxR positively regulates expression in a cAMP-dependent manner.

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