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. 1991 Aug;173(16):5224–5229. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.16.5224-5229.1991

rbcR [correction of rcbR], a gene coding for a member of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators, is located upstream of the expressed set of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase genes in the photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium vinosum.

A M Viale 1, H Kobayashi 1, T Akazawa 1, S Henikoff 1
PMCID: PMC208217  PMID: 1907267

Abstract

An open reading frame, rbcR, was identified 226 bp upstream of rbcAB, i.e., the ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase genes expressed in the phototrophic purple bacterium Chromatium vinosum. Several features reveal that rbcR encodes a member of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators, in which an anomalous content of lysine and arginine residues (Lys/Arg anomaly) was found. The expression of rbcR in Escherichia coli as a protein fused to the N-terminal region of beta-galactosidase led to reduced expression of rbcAB. Thus, rbcR is likely to encode a trans-acting transcriptional regulator of rbcAB expression in C. vinosum.

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