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. 2021 Jul 21;12:4433. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24689-2

Fig. 2. RepG represses HP0102 protein expression through targeting the G-repeat upstream of tlpB-hp0102.

Fig. 2

a Schematic representation of translational hp0102::gfpmut3 reporter fusion constructs originating from H. pylori strain 26695 (12G) that were integrated into the rdxA locus in H. pylori G27 wildtype and ΔrepG. The endogenous tlpB-hp0102 operon in G27 carries a 14G repeat. Red bar: tlpB promoter region; gray: G-repeat upstream of tlpB; black: tlpB coding region; orange: G-repeat upstream of hp0102; dark green: HP0102 coding region; light green: gfpmut3 coding sequence. Arrows indicate the transcriptional start site. b H. pylori G27 WT and ΔrepG strains that carry the indicated GFP reporter fusions were grown to exponential phase and HP0102::GFP protein levels were determined by western blot analysis. The relative HP0102::GFP protein levels in the ΔrepG mutant (vs. the respective wild-type background) are indicated by bars with corresponding s.d. (n = 6 biologically independent experiments; corresponding western blot representative is shown in Supplementary Fig. 3). ***—highly significant, p-value < 0.001; n.s.—not significant; Student’s t-test, two-tailed. Source data underlying (b) is provided as a Source data file.