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Cooperative Action of the Catabolite Activator Protein and AraC In Vitro at the araFGH Promoter

ABSTRACT Full activation of transcription of the araFGHpromoter, pFGH, requires both the catabolite activator protein (CAP) and AraC protein. AtpFGH, the binding site for CAP is centered at position −41.5, an essential binding site for AraC is centered at position −79.5, and a second, nonessential binding site is centered at position −154.5. In this work, we used the minimal promoter region required for in vivo activation of pFGH to examine the roles of CAP and AraC in stimulating formation of open complexes at pFGH. Migration retardation assays of open complexes showed that RNA polymerase binds exceptionally tightly to the AraC-CAP-pFGH complex and that the order of addition of proteins to the initiating complex is important. Similar assays with RNA polymerase containing truncated alpha subunits suggest that AraC interacts with the C-terminal domain of the alpha subunit. Finally, AraC protein also acts to prevent the improper binding of RNA polymerase at a pseudo promoter near the truepFGH promoter.