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  • MrpC, a transcriptional regulator in Myxococcus xanthus, is crucial for coordinating its multicellular development.
  • MrpC undergoes a unique processing that produces an isoform called MrpC2, which was thought to help regulate many genes for aggregation and sporulation.
  • New findings reveal that MrpC acts as a negative autoregulator, inhibiting its own expression by competing with MrpB, challenging previous models of its regulatory role.

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MrpC, a member of the CRP/Fnr superfamily of transcriptional regulators, plays a key role in coordination of the multicellular developmental program in Myxococcus xanthus. Previous reports suggest MrpC is subject to complex regulation including activation by an unusual LonD-dependent proteolytic processing event that removes its unique N-terminal peptide, producing the isoform MrpC2. MrpC2 is proposed to positively autoregulate and regulate transcription of hundreds of genes necessary for both the aggregation and sporulation phases of the developmental program. We demonstrate here that mrpC expression bifurcates corresponding to different cell populations within the developmental program. During our analysis of regulatory events controlling this process, we demonstrate that MrpC2 is not an active isoform; rather, the N-terminal peptide is instead essential for MrpC function in vivo. We also demonstrate that MrpC is instead a negative autoregulator and represses its own expression by specifically competing with its enhancer binding protein, MrpB. These results provide an additional rare example of CRP/EBP coordinated regulation, and significantly revise the model for control of the central developmental transcriptional activator of the M. xanthus developmental program.

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