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Evolutionary expansion of a regulatory network by counter-silencing.


ABSTRACT: Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in bacterial evolution. Successful acquisition of new genes requires their incorporation into existing regulatory networks. This study compares the regulation of conserved genes in the PhoPQ regulon of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with that of PhoPQ-regulated horizontally acquired genes, which are silenced by the histone-like protein H-NS. We demonstrate that PhoP upregulates conserved and horizontally acquired genes by distinct mechanisms. Conserved genes are regulated by classical PhoP-mediated activation and are invariant in promoter architecture, whereas horizontally acquired genes exhibit variable promoter architecture and are regulated by PhoP-mediated counter-silencing. Biochemical analyses show that a horizontally acquired promoter adopts different structures in the silenced and counter-silenced states, implicating the remodelling of the H-NS nucleoprotein filament and the subsequent restoration of open-complex formation as the central mechanism of counter-silencing. Our results indicate that counter-silencing is favoured in the regulatory integration of newly acquired genes because it is able to accommodate multiple promoter architectures.

SUBMITTER: Will WR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4215172 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Evolutionary expansion of a regulatory network by counter-silencing.

Will W Ryan WR   Bale Denise H DH   Reid Philip J PJ   Libby Stephen J SJ   Fang Ferric C FC  

Nature communications 20141028


Horizontal gene transfer plays a major role in bacterial evolution. Successful acquisition of new genes requires their incorporation into existing regulatory networks. This study compares the regulation of conserved genes in the PhoPQ regulon of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium with that of PhoPQ-regulated horizontally acquired genes, which are silenced by the histone-like protein H-NS. We demonstrate that PhoP upregulates conserved and horizontally acquired genes by distinct mechanisms.  ...[more]

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