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Microarray analysis of the impact of ParB excess on gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

ABSTRACT: In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, partitioning protein ParB facilitates segregation of newly replicated chromosomes but is not essential for cell survival. Unlike in other bacteria, inactivation of parB leads to major changes of the transcriptome, suggesting that, directly or indirectly, ParB plays a role in regulation of gene expression in this organism. To identify primary targets of ParB, we analysed the impact of a slight increase in ParB amount on the transcriptome using microarrays. A several-fold increased ParB level does not cause recognizable phenotypic changes but leads to significant changes in the expression of 211 loci, including transcriptional regulators of operons involved in SOS response, virulence and adaptation. Most notably, the mRNA level of genes adjacent to high affinity ParB binding sites parS1-4 close to oriC is reduced. Our data support the role of partitioning protein ParB as a transcriptional regulator in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

ORGANISM(S): Pseudomonas aeruginosa

PROVIDER: GSE95647 | GEO | 2017/07/25

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA377757

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Representatives of two families of bacterial Par proteins, ParA and ParB, are encoded by the majority of bacterial chromosomes in the close vicinity of oriC. ParA(Soj) and ParB(Spo0J) proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are both important for optimal growth, nucleoids segregation, cell division and different types of motility. Comparative transcriptome analysis of parAnull, parBnull mutants versus parental PAO1161 strain of P. aeruginosa demonstrated global changes in genes expression pattern in logarithmic phase of planktonic cultures grown on rich medium. The set of genes that were similarly regulated in both mutant strains as compared to the wild-type strain as well as two sets of genes uniquely affected in the particular mutant were defined suggesting that ParA and ParB may act in common and independently. In general, many genes involved in cell division, DNA and RNA processing and metabolic processes were down-regulated in mutant cells, in contrast genes which products play a role in adaptation, protection, motility, cell-to-cell signaling as well as signal transduction increased their expression in par mutant cells. Besides their role in chromosome segregation, ParA and ParB seem to have the potential to regulate genes transcription. The altered expression of a large number of genes encoding known or predicted transcriptional regulators and genes coding for products involved in c-di-GMP signalling, suggests that the part of observed global changes in genes expression pattern in parAnull and parBnull mutants might be the effect of indirect regulation mediated by regulatory genes under ParA and ParB control. The extended regulatory network provides the mechanism to modulate genes expression in response to the stage of the chromosome segregation process and cell cycle. Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1161 (leu, r-, RifR), derivative of PAO1, as a control (reference) strain, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1161 parA1-40::smh (parAnull) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1161 parB1-18::TcR (parBnull) disruption mutant strains were used in the experiments. Three independent biological replicates of total RNA were isolated for each strain from logarithmic (Log) phase of planktonic culture grown on rich medium (L broth) at 37oC. In total, nine samples of RNA were prepared.

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Microarray analysis of the impact of ParB excess on gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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