Horizontally acquired genes are usually transcriptionally inactive, although most of them are associated with genomic loci enriched with promoter-like sequences forming "promoter islands." We hypothesized that lateral DNA transfer induces local mutagenesis, accumulating AT base pairs and creating promoter-like sequences, whose occupancy with RNA polymerase and a specific silencer H-NS suppresses the transcription of foreign genes. Error-prone mutagenesis was implemented for the "promoter island" of a foreign gene appY and the promoter region of an inherent gene dps. Derivatives with changed transcriptional activity were selected using a reporter plasmid pET28_eGFP. Only one cycle of mutagenesis with negative selection suppressed the activity of the main dps promoter to the background level due to a single substitution in its -10 element, while positive selection gave a sequence with improved -35 element, thus testifying feasibility of the approach. The same suppression for appY was achieved by three cycles, while eightfold transcription activation required nine iterations of mutagenesis. In both cases, the number of potential start points decreased resulting in an ordinary regulatory region with only one dominant promoter in the case of positive selection. Efficiency of H-NS binding remained virtually unchanged in all mutant constructs. Based on these findings we conclude that excessive promoters can adversely affect transcription by providing a platform for interference between several RNA polymerase molecules, which can act as a silencer at promoter-dense regions.
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