The DNA damage response of Escherichia coli: differential gene expression after replication inhibition by azidothymidine
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ORGANISM(S): Escherichia coli K-12
PROVIDER: GSE263906 | GEO | 2024/06/26
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Project description:Shimoni2009 - Escherichia Coli SOS
Simple model, involving only the basic components of the circuit, sufficient to explain the peaks in the promoter activities of recA and lexA.
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Stochastic analysis of the SOS response in Escherichia coli.
Shimoni Y, Altuvia S, Margalit H, Biham O
PloS one. 2009; 4(5):e5363
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: DNA damage in Escherichia coli evokes a response mechanism called the SOS response. The genetic circuit of this mechanism includes the genes recA and lexA, which regulate each other via a mixed feedback loop involving transcriptional regulation and protein-protein interaction. Under normal conditions, recA is transcriptionally repressed by LexA, which also functions as an auto-repressor. In presence of DNA damage, RecA proteins recognize stalled replication forks and participate in the DNA repair process. Under these conditions, RecA marks LexA for fast degradation. Generally, such mixed feedback loops are known to exhibit either bi-stability or a single steady state. However, when the dynamics of the SOS system following DNA damage was recently studied in single cells, ordered peaks were observed in the promoter activity of both genes (Friedman et al., 2005, PLoS Biol. 3(7):e238). This surprising phenomenon was masked in previous studies of cell populations. Previous attempts to explain these results harnessed additional genes to the system and deployed complex deterministic mathematical models that were only partially successful in explaining the results.
PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Here we apply stochastic methods, which are better suited for dynamic simulations of single cells. We show that a simple model, involving only the basic components of the circuit, is sufficient to explain the peaks in the promoter activities of recA and lexA. Notably, deterministic simulations of the same model do not produce peaks in the promoter activities.
SIGNIFICANCE: We conclude that the double negative mixed feedback loop with auto-repression accounts for the experimentally observed peaks in the promoter activities. In addition to explaining the experimental results, this result shows that including additional regulations in a mixed feedback loop may dramatically change the dynamic functionality of this regulatory module. Furthermore, our results suggests that stochastic fluctuations strongly affect the qualitative behavior of important regulatory modules even under biologically relevant conditions, thus emphasizing the importance of stochastic analysis of regulatory circuits.
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2005-01-01 | MODEL2937159804 | BioModels
Project description:The bacterium, Francisella tularensis (Ft), is one of the most infectious agents known and classified as a category A bioweapon. Ft virulence is controlled by a unique set of transcription regulators, the MglA-SspA heterodimer, PigR, and the stress signal, ppGpp. These factors activate Francisella pathogenicity island (FPI) gene expression, which is required for virulence. MglA-SspA is expressed during infection and constitutively associates with the σ70 associated RNAP holoenzyme (RNAPσ70), indicating that RNAPσ70-(MglA-SspA) is a virulence specific polymerase. How virulence activation is mediated by these components, however, is unknown. Here we report cryo-EM structures of FtRNAPσ70, FtRNAPσ70-(MglA-SspA) and RNAPσ70-(MglA-SspA)-ppGpp-PigR complexes with promoter DNA. FtRNAPσ70-DNA and FtRNAPσ70-(MglA-SspA)-DNA structures and RT-PCR analyses show MglA-SspA stabilizes σ70 binding to DNA to regulate FPI-independent, virulence-enhancing genes. Strikingly, an Escherichia coli RNAPσ70 complex with EcSspA suggests this is a general mechanism for SspA-like regulation of bacterial RNAPσ70. Finally, our FtRNAP-σ70-(MglA-SspA)-ppGpp-PigR-DNA structure reveals that ppGpp binds to MglA-SspA to tether the DNA-binding activator, PigR, to FPI promoters. PigR in turn recruits FtRNAP CTDs to two DNA upstream (UP) elements, generating stable FPI transcription complexes. Thus, these studies unveil a novel paradigm for pathogenesis in Ft involving a virulence-specific RNAP that employs two (MglA-SspA)-based strategies to activate virulence genes.
2020-11-05 | GSE150932 | GEO
Project description:Our results indicate that the transcriptional responses to HPUra, MMC, and UV are only partially overlapping. recA is the major transcriptional regulator under all of the tested conditions and LexA appears to directly repress expression of 63 genes in 26 operons, including the 18 operons previously identified as LexA targets. MMC and HPUra treatments caused induction of an integrative and conjugative element (ICEBs1) and resident prophages (PBSX and SPß), which affected expression of many host genes. Consistent with previous results, induction of these mobile elements required recA. Induction of the phage appeared to require inactivation of LexA. Unrepaired UV damage and treatment with MMC also affected expression of some of the genes that are controlled by DnaA. Furthermore, MMC treatment caused an increase in origin proximal gene dosage Keywords: time dependent DNA damage response
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Project description:The SOS response is a conserved pathway that is activated under certain stress conditions and is regulated by the repressor LexA and the activator RecA. The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes contains RecA and LexA homologs, but their roles in Listeria have not been established. In this study, we identified the SOS regulon in L. monocytogenes by comparing the transcription profiles of the wild-type strain and the ΔrecA mutant strain after exposure to the DNA damaging agent mitomycinC (MMC). The SOS response is an inducible pathway involved in DNA repair, restart of stalled replication forks, and in induction of genetic variation in stressed and stationary phase cells. It is regulated by LexA and RecA. LexA is an autoregulatory repressor which binds to a consensus sequence in the promoter region of the SOS response genes, thereby repressing transcription. A consensus LexA binding motif for L. monocytogenes has not been identified thus far. Generally, the SOS response is induced under circumstances in which single stranded DNA accumulates in the cell. This results in activation of RecA, which in turn stimulates cleavage of LexA, and ultimately in the induction of the SOS response. Keywords: stress response, loop design, SOS response, mitomycin c, listeria monocytogenes, RecA, LexA
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2016-05-23 | GSE54893 | GEO
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2016-05-23 | GSE54895 | GEO
Project description:The SOS response is a conserved pathway that is activated under certain stress conditions and is regulated by the repressor LexA and the activator RecA. The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes contains RecA and LexA homologs, but their roles in Listeria have not been established. In this study, we identified the SOS regulon in L. monocytogenes by comparing the transcription profiles of the wild-type strain and the ÎrecA mutant strain after exposure to the DNA damaging agent mitomycinC (MMC). The SOS response is an inducible pathway involved in DNA repair, restart of stalled replication forks, and in induction of genetic variation in stressed and stationary phase cells. It is regulated by LexA and RecA. LexA is an autoregulatory repressor which binds to a consensus sequence in the promoter region of the SOS response genes, thereby repressing transcription. A consensus LexA binding motif for L. monocytogenes has not been identified thus far. Generally, the SOS response is induced under circumstances in which single stranded DNA accumulates in the cell. This results in activation of RecA, which in turn stimulates cleavage of LexA, and ultimately in the induction of the SOS response. Keywords: stress response, loop design, SOS response, mitomycin c, listeria monocytogenes, RecA, LexA Triple loop design of 3 independent experiments (series A, B, and C) using Wt strain and recA mutant (activator of the SOS response). Sampling was done before (t=0) and 1 hour after (t=60) exposure to mitomycin C (MMC) for both the wild-type strain and the recA mutant strain. One series therefore contains 4 samples and the complete experiments consists of 12 samples. Each of the 3 series was designed in a loop (wt, t=0 =>wt, t=60 => recA, t=60 => recA, t=0 => wt, t=0). These 3 loops were connected using series B as the central loop. Series B was connected to series A as follows: wt, t=0 (B) => recA, t=0 (A) and wt, t=60 (B) => recA, t=60 (A). Series B was connected to series C as follows: recA, t=0 (B) => wt, t=0 (C) and recA, t=60 (B) => wt, t=60 (C).
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2001-07-30 | GSE9 | GEO
Project description:Suppression of the SOS response in combination with drugs has been proposed as a potential target to tackle antimicrobial resistance. The SOS response is the pathway used to repair bacterial DNA damage induced by antimicrobials such as quinolones. The extent of lexA-regulated protein expression and other associated systems under pressure of agents that damage bacterial DNA in clinical isolates remains unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of this strategy on the proteome profile of Escherichia coli clinical strains.
2024-04-04 | PXD050358 | Pride