Transcriptional regulation in the obligate intracytoplasmic bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii

Analysis of the obligate intracytoplasmic Rickettsia prowazeki indicates the presence of transcriptional regulation. The glt promoter in the P2 region of the microbe's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) indicated an inverted repeat sequence in the 47 bp region that is located upstream of the glt coding region. This DNA feature is a characteristic of microbes that possess positive transcriptional regulatory mechanisms.