Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE41936: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [ChIP-chip]. GSE41938: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [tiling array]. GSE41939: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [RNA-seq]. Refer to individual Series
Project description:Despite the prevalence of antisense transcripts in bacterial transcriptomes, little is known about how their synthesis is controlled. We report that a major function of the Escherichia coli termination factor Rho and its co-factor NusG is suppression of ubiquitous antisense transcription genome-wide. Rho binds C-rich unstructured nascent RNA (high C/G ratio) prior to its ATP-dependent dissociation of transcription complexes. NusG is required for efficient termination at minority subsets (~20%) of both antisense and sense Rho-dependent terminators with lower C/G ratio sequences. In contrast, a widely studied nusA deletion proposed to compromise Rho-dependent termination had no effect on antisense or sense Rho-dependent terminators in vivo. Global co-localization of the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS with Rho-dependent terminators and genetic interactions between hns and rho suggest that H-NS aids Rho in suppression of antisense transcription. The combined actions of Rho, NusG, and H-NS appear to be analogous to the Sen1-Nrd1-Nab3 and nucleosome systems that suppress antisense transcription in eukaryotes. Tiling expression microarray experiments were performed in cells treated with 20 ug/ml bicyclomycin or cells deleted for nusG, or a partial deletion of nusA. Labeled cDNAs were hybridized to an E. coli K-12 MG1655 tiling array with overlapping probes at ~12bp spacing across the entire genome. The series contains 14 datasets.
Project description:Despite the prevalence of antisense transcripts in bacterial transcriptomes, little is known about how their synthesis is controlled. We report that a major function of the Escherichia coli termination factor Rho and its co-factor NusG is suppression of ubiquitous antisense transcription genome-wide. Rho binds C-rich unstructured nascent RNA (high C/G ratio) prior to its ATP-dependent dissociation of transcription complexes. NusG is required for efficient termination at minority subsets (~20%) of both antisense and sense Rho-dependent terminators with lower C/G ratio sequences. In contrast, a widely studied nusA deletion proposed to compromise Rho-dependent termination had no effect on antisense or sense Rho-dependent terminators in vivo. Global co-localization of the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS with Rho-dependent terminators and genetic interactions between hns and rho suggest that H-NS aids Rho in suppression of antisense transcription. The combined actions of Rho, NusG, and H-NS appear to be analogous to the Sen1-Nrd1-Nab3 and nucleosome systems that suppress antisense transcription in eukaryotes.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression in wildtype and MyD88-/- C57BL/6J mouse macrophages treated with 10 ng/mL LPS for 2 hours versus media treated control macrophages, and, wildtype and MyD88-/- C57BL/6J mouse macrophages treated with live E. coli bacteria (log phase; 1 bact per 1 macrophage) for 2 hours versus media treated control macrophages. Cells from 4 mice of each geneotype were used and each individual provided its own control. Hybridizations of treated and control samples from each mouse were dye swap replicated. Wildtype macrophages treated with LPS vs control (GSM22617-GSM22623,GSM22625), MyD88-/- macrophages treated with LPS vs control (GSM22626-GSM22632), wldtype macrophages treated with E. coli vs control (GSM22633-GSM22640, and MyD88-/- macrophages treated with E. coli vs control (GSM22641-GSM22648). Keywords: other