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Liu, X and De Wulf, P (2004) Probing the ArcA-P modulon of Escherichia coli by whole genome transcriptional analysis and sequence recognition profiling. J. Biol. Chem. 279:12588-97

Abstract

The ArcB/ArcA two-component signal transduction system of Escherichia coli regulates gene expression in response to the redox conditions of growth. Over the years, genetic screens have lead to the identification of about 30 ArcA-P-controlled operons that are involved in redox metabolism. However, the discovery of 3 targets that are not implicated in respiratory metabolism (the tra operon for plasmid conjugation, psi site for Xer-based recombination, and oriC site for chromosome replication) suggests that the Arc modulon may comprise additional operons that are involved in a myriad of functions. To identify these operons, we derived the ArcA-P-dependent transcription profile of E. coli using oligonucleotide-based microarray analysis. The findings indicated that 9% of all open reading frames in E. coli are affected either directly or indirectly by ArcA-P. To identify which operons are under the direct control of ArcA-P, we developed the ArcA-P recognition weight matrix from footprinting data and used it to scan the genome, yielding an ArcA-P sequence affinity map. By overlaying both methods, we identified 55 new Arc-regulated operons that are implicated in energy metabolism, transport, survival, catabolism, and transcriptional regulation. The data also suggest that the Arc response pathway, which translates into a net global downscaling of gene expression, overlaps partly with the FNR regulatory network. A conservative but reasonable assessment is that the Arc pathway recruits 100-150 operons to mediate a role in cellular adaptation that is more extensive than hitherto anticipated.

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PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M313454200

Keywords

Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/physiology; Binding Sites; DNA, Complementary/metabolism; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Genome, Bacterial; Membrane Proteins/physiology; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Operon; Oxidation-Reduction; Plasmids/metabolism; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Protein Kinases/physiology; RNA/chemistry; Recombination, Genetic; Repressor Proteins; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Signal Transduction; Transcription, Genetic

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