Abstract
Previous studies identified a MarR (multiple antibiotic resistance regulator) family transcription factor OtrR in the oxytetracycline biosynthetic gene cluster, which regulated the expression of an efflux pump OtrB. The genes otrB and otrR were divergent arranged and the inter-ORF (open reading frame) region between the two genes contained the promoter otrBp. In this study, we demonstrated that the reverse complementary sequence of otrBp contained the promoter of otrR, and its activity was also repressed by OtrR by sharing the same operator otrO within otrBp, and allosteric regulated by oxytetracycline. Our findings offered a solid base for the synthetic biological application of the bi-direction promoter in controlling two elements at the same time using only one signal molecule.
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