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Xylose operon regulatory protein

Transcription is regulated by proteins which bind operator sequences around the transcription start site. These proteins can affect transcription positively (activators) or negatively (repressors). Many repressor proteins can be inactivated by addition of an inducer, such as xylose.

XylR if the regulatory protein for the Xylose operon in B. subtilis#1 and is responsible for ensuring the xylose metabolism proteins are not expressed in the absence of xylose . Though XylR is endogenous to B. subtilis, XylR should be over-expressed to minimise the leakage of a xylose inducible promoter. In the presence of xylose, the XylR multimer is unable to bind DNA and so transcription resumes.

It must be noted that in all B. subtilis strains that do not have the xylose operon knocked out the xylose inducer will gradually be metabolised by the host.

XylR was used in conjunction with the Xylose operon promoter (BBa_K143014) and acted as an input adaptor for a Polymerases per second (POPS) output.

Sequence and Features