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Dual RpoH sigma factors in Sinorhizobium meliloti

ABSTRACT: Sinorhizobium meliloti can live as a soil saprophyte, and can engage in a nitrogen fixing symbiosis with plant roots. To succeed in such diverse environments, the bacteria must continually adjust gene expression. Transcriptional plasticity in eubacteria is often mediated by alternative sigma factors interacting with core RNA polymerase. The S. meliloti genome encodes 14 of these alternative sigmas, including two putative RpoH (heat shock) sigmas. We used custom Affymetrix Symbiosis Chips to characterize the global transcriptional response of S. meliloti rpoH1, rpoH2 and rpoH1 rpoH2 mutants during heat shock and stationary phase growth. Under these conditions, expression of over 300 genes is dependent on rpoH1 and rpoH2.

ORGANISM(S): Medicago truncatula Sinorhizobium meliloti

PROVIDER: GSE36186 | GEO | 2012/10/02

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA151659

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The bacterial heat-shock response is regulated by the alternative sigma factor sigma 32 (RpoH), which responds to misfolded protein stress and directs the RNA polymerase to the promoterss for genes required for protein refolding or degradation. In P. aeruginosa, RpoH is essential for viability under laboratory growth conditions. Here, we used a transcriptomics approach to identify the genes of the RpoH regulon, including RpoH-regulated genes that are essential for P. aeruginosa. We placed the rpoH gene under control of the arabinose inducible PBAD promoter, then deleted the chromosomal rpoH allele. This allowed transcriptomic analysis of the RpoH regulon following a short up-shift in the cellular concentration of RpoH by arabinose addition, in the absence of a sudden increase in temperature. The P. aeruginosa ∆rpoH (PBAD-rpoH) strain grew in the absence of arabinose, indicating that some rpoH expression occurs without arabinose-induction. When arabinose was added, the rpoH mRNA abundance of P. aeruginosa ∆rpoH (PBAD-rpoH) measured by RT-qPCR increased fivefold within 15 min of arabinose addition. Whole genome transcriptome results showed that P. aeruginosa genes required for protein repair or degradation are induced by increased RpoH levels, and that many of the genes induced by RpoH are essential for P. aeruginosa growth. Other stress response genes induced by RpoH are involved in nucleic acid damage and repair and in amino acid metabolism. Annotation of the hypothetical proteins under RpoH control included proteins that may play a role in antibiotic resistances and in non-ribosomal peptide synthesis. The P. aeruginosa ∆rpoH (PBAD-rpoH) strain is impaired in its ability to survive during starvation compared to the wild-type strain. P. aeruginosa ∆rpoH (PBAD-rpoH) also has increased sensitivity to aminoglycoside antibiotics, but not to other classes of antibiotics, whether cultured planktonically or in biofilms. The enhanced aminoglycoside resistance of the mutant strain may be due to indirect effects, such as the build-up of toxic misfolded proteins, or to the direct effect of genes such as aminoglycoside acetyl transferases that are regulated by RpoH. Overall, the results demonstrate that RpoH regulates genes that are essential for viability of P. aeruginosa, that it protects P. aeruginosa from damage from aminoglycoside antibiotics, and that it is required for survival during nutrient limiting conditions. We used Affymetrix microarrays to characterize the RpoH regulon in P. aeruginosa. Using the P. aeruginosa ∆rpoH strain with rpoH under control of the PBAD promoter, we were able to perform transcriptomic analysis of genes induced by a sudden increase (15 min) in the cellular concentration of RpoH, independent from a sudden increase in temperature.

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Dual RpoH sigma factors in Sinorhizobium meliloti

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