Operon Arabinosio

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araI is also the inducer site. AraC bound at this site can simultaneously bind to the araO2 site to repress transcription from the PBAD promoter. In the presence of arabinose, however, AraC bound at this site helps to activate expression of the PBAD promoter.


CRP binds to the CRP binding site. It does not directly assist RNA polymerase to bind to the promoter in this case. Instead, in the presence of arabinose, it promotes the rearrangement of AraC when arabinose is present from a state in which it represses transcription of the PBAD promoter to one in which it activates transcription of the PBAD promoter.

When arabinose is absent, there is no need to express the structural genes. AraC does this by binding simultaneously to araI and araO2. As a result the intervening DNA is looped. These two events block access to the PBAD promoter which is, in any case, a very weak promoter (unlike the lac promoter):

AraC also prevents its own expression. Thus, it is an autoregulator of its own expression. This makes sense; there is no need to over-express AraC. If the concentration falls too low then transcription of araC resumes until the amount of AraC is sufficient to prevent more transcription again.



When arabinose is present, it binds to AraC and allosterically induces it to bind to araI instead araO2. If glucose is also absent, then the presence of CRP bound to its site between araO1 and araI helps to break the DNA loop and also helps AraC to bind to araI