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Choi E, Jeon H, Oh JI, Hwang J. Overexpressed L20 Rescues 50S Ribosomal Subunit Assembly Defects of bipA-Deletion in Escherichia coli. Front Microbiol 2020; 10:2982. [PMID: 31998269 PMCID: PMC6962249 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The BipA (BPI-inducible protein A) protein is highly conserved in a large variety of bacteria and belongs to the translational GTPases, based on sequential and structural similarities. Despite its conservation in bacteria, bipA is not essential for cell growth under normal growth conditions. However, at 20°C, deletion of bipA causes not only severe growth defects but also several phenotypic changes such as capsule production, motility, and ribosome assembly, indicating that it has global regulatory properties. Our recent studies revealed that BipA is a novel ribosome-associating GTPase, whose expression is cold-shock-inducible and involved in the incorporation of the ribosomal protein (r-protein) L6. However, the precise mechanism of BipA in 50S ribosomal subunit assembly is not completely understood. In this study, to demonstrate the role of BipA in the 50S ribosomal subunit and possibly to find an interplaying partner(s), a genomic library was constructed and suppressor screening was conducted. Through screening, we found a suppressor gene, rplT, encoding r-protein L20, which is assembled at the early stage of ribosome assembly and negatively regulates its own expression at the translational level. We demonstrated that the exogenous expression of rplT restored the growth of bipA-deleted strain at low temperature by partially recovering the defects in ribosomal RNA processing and ribosome assembly. Our findings suggest that the function of BipA is pivotal for 50S ribosomal subunit biogenesis at a low temperature and imply that BipA and L20 may exert coordinated actions for proper ribosome assembly under cold-shock conditions.
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- Eunsil Choi
- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
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Rosen BP, Ajees AA, McDermott TR. Life and death with arsenic. Arsenic life: an analysis of the recent report "A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus". Bioessays 2011; 33:350-7. [PMID: 21387349 PMCID: PMC3801090 DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Arsenic and phosphorus are group 15 elements with similar chemical properties. Is it possible that arsenate could replace phosphate in some of the chemicals that are required for life? Phosphate esters are ubiquitous in biomolecules and are essential for life, from the sugar phosphates of intermediary metabolism to ATP to phospholipids to the phosphate backbone of DNA and RNA. Some enzymes that form phosphate esters catalyze the formation of arsenate esters. Arsenate esters hydrolyze very rapidly in aqueous solution, which makes it improbable that phosphorous could be completely replaced with arsenic to support life. Studies of bacterial growth at high arsenic:phosphorus ratios demonstrate that relatively high arsenic concentrations can be tolerated, and that arsenic can become involved in vital functions in the cell, though likely much less efficiently than phosphorus. Recently Wolfe-Simon et al. [1 ] reported the isolation of a microorganism that they maintain uses arsenic in place of phosphorus for growth. Here, we examine and evaluate their data and conclusions.
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- Barry P Rosen
- Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
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Vila-Sanjurjo A. Modification of the Ribosome and the Translational Machinery during Reduced Growth Due to Environmental Stress. EcoSal Plus 2008; 3. [PMID: 26443727 DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.2.5.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2007] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Escherichia coli strains normally used under laboratory conditions have been selected for maximum growth rates and require maximum translation efficiency. Recent studies have shed light on the structural and functional changes undergone by the translational machinery in E. coli during heat and cold shock and upon entry into stationary phase. In these situations both the composition and the partitioning of this machinery into the different pools of cellular ribosomes are modified. As a result, the translational capacity of the cell is dramatically altered. This review provides a comprehensive account of these modifications, regardless of whether or not their underlying mechanisms and their effects on cellular physiology are known. Not only is the composition of the ribosome modified upon entry into stationary phase, but the modification of other components of the translational machinery, such as elongation factor Tu (EFTu) and tRNAs, has also been observed. Hibernation-promoting factor (HPF), paralog protein Y (PY), and ribosome modulation factor (RMF) may also be related to the general protection against environmental stress observed in stationary-phase E. coli cells, a role that would not be revealed necessarily by the viability assays. Even for the best-characterized ribosome-associated factors induced under stress (RMF, PY, and initiation factors), we are far from a complete understanding of their modes of action.
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Quantification of target molecules needed to detect microorganisms by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and catalyzed reporter deposition-FISH. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008; 74:5068-77. [PMID: 18552182 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00208-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes is a method that is widely used to detect and quantify microorganisms in environmental samples and medical specimens by fluorescence microscopy. Difficulties with FISH arise if the rRNA content of the probe target organisms is low, causing dim fluorescence signals that are not detectable against the background fluorescence. This limitation is ameliorated by technical modifications such as catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD)-FISH, but the minimal numbers of rRNA copies needed to obtain a visible signal of a microbial cell after FISH or CARD-FISH have not been determined previously. In this study, a novel competitive FISH approach was developed and used to determine, based on a thermodynamic model of probe competition, the numbers of 16S rRNA copies per cell required to detect bacteria by FISH and CARD-FISH with oligonucleotide probes in mixed pure cultures and in activated sludge. The detection limits of conventional FISH with Cy3-labeled probe EUB338-I were found to be 370 +/- 45 16S rRNA molecules per cell for Escherichia coli hybridized on glass microscope slides and 1,400 +/- 170 16S rRNA copies per E. coli cell in activated sludge. For CARD-FISH the values ranged from 8.9 +/- 1.5 to 14 +/- 2 and from 36 +/- 6 to 54 +/- 7 16S rRNA molecules per cell, respectively, indicating that the sensitivity of CARD-FISH was 26- to 41-fold higher than that of conventional FISH. These results suggest that optimized FISH protocols using oligonucleotide probes could be suitable for more recent applications of FISH (for example, to detect mRNA in situ in microbial cells).
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Recently, an unusual gene structure has been described in species of the genus Thermus, in which the rpmH (ribosomal protein L34) coding sequence was found to be entirely overlapped by the unusually large rnpA (RNase P protein subunit) sequence. Gene overlap is common in viruses, but has not been seen to this extent in any bacterium.
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- J Christopher Ellis
- Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 7615, Raleigh, NC 27695-7615, USA
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- Murray P Deutscher
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA.
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Kalpaxis DL, Karahalios P, Papapetropoulou M. Changes in ribosomal activity of Escherichia coli cells during prolonged culture in sea salts medium. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:3114-9. [PMID: 9620960 PMCID: PMC107811 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.12.3114-3119.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The activity of ribosomes from a clinical isolate of Escherichia coli, exposed to starvation for 7 days in sea salts medium, was investigated by measuring the kinetic parameters of ribosomal peptidyltransferase, by using the puromycin reaction as a model reaction. No alterations in the extent of peptide bond formation were observed during starvation. In contrast, a 50% reduction in the kmax/Ks ratio could be seen after 24 h of starvation; an additional 6 days of starvation resulted in a progressive but less abrupt decline in the kmax/Ks value. (kmax is the apparent catalytic rate constant of peptidyl transferase, and Ks is the dissociation constant of the encounter complex between acetyl (Ac)[3H]Phe-tRNA-poly(U)-ribosome and puromycin.) Although the distribution of ribosomal particles remained constant, a substantial decrease in the number of ribosomes per starved cell and a clear decline in the ability of ribosomes to bind AcPhe-tRNA were observed, particularly during the first day of starvation. Further analysis indicated that rRNA in general, but especially 23S rRNA, was rapidly degraded during the starvation period. In addition, the L12/L7 molar ratio decreased from 1.5 to 1 during the initial phase of starvation (up to 24 h) but remained constant during the subsequent starvation period. Ribosomes isolated from 24-h-starved cells, when artificially depleted of L7/L12 protein and reconstituted with L7/L12 protein from mid-logarithmic-phase cells, regenerated an L12/L7 molar ratio of 1.5 and restored the peptidyltransferase activity to a substantial level. An analogous effect of reconstitution on the efficiency of ribosomes in binding AcPhe-tRNA was evident not only during the initial phase but throughout the starvation period.
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- D L Kalpaxis
- Laboratory of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece.
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Ribosomal modulation factor (RMF), a small basic protein, expresses transcriptionally in the stationary phase of Escherichia coli cells and binds to 50S ribosomal subunits. The RMF bound 70S ribosomes dimerize to form 100S particles that have no translational activity. In transferring the stationary cells to a fresh medium, the 100S particles release the RMF and dissociate to active 70S. The interconversion of ribosomes between active 70S and inactive 100S by RMF is a cellular mechanism controlling translation.
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- A Wada
- Department of Physics, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.
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Kitten T, Willis DK. Suppression of a sensor kinase-dependent phenotype in Pseudomonas syringae by ribosomal proteins L35 and L20. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:1548-55. [PMID: 8626280 PMCID: PMC177837 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.6.1548-1555.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The lemA gene of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae encodes the sensor kinase of a bacterial two-component signal transduction system. Phenotypes that are lemA dependent in P. syringae include lesion formation on bean and production of extracellular protease and the antibiotic syringomycin. Recently, the gacA gene has been identified as encoding the response regulator of the lemA regulon. To identify additional components that interact with LemA, suppressors of a lemA mutation were sought. A locus was identified that, when present in multiple copies, restores extracellular protease production to a lemA insertion mutant of P. syringae pv. syringae. This locus was found to encode the P. syringae homologs of translation initiation factor IF3 and ribosomal proteins L20 and L35 of Escherichia coli and other bacteria. Deletion analysis and data from Western immunoblots with anti-IF3 antiserum suggest that protease restoration does not require IF3. Deletion of both the L35 and L20 genes resulted in loss of protease restoration, whereas disruption of either gene alone increased protease restoration. Our results suggest that overexpression of either L20 or L35 is sufficient for protease restoration. It is unclear how alteration of ribosomal protein expression compensates in this instance for loss of a transcriptional activator, but a regulatory role for L20 and L35 apart from their function in the ribosome may be indicated.
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- T Kitten
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA
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Cuillel M, Cortolezzis B, Chroboczek J, Langowski J, Ruigrok RW, Jacrot B. Purification and characterization of wild-type and ts 112 mutant protein IIIa of human adenovirus 2 expressed in Escherichia coli. Virology 1990; 175:222-31. [PMID: 2408227 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90202-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The expression of the protein IIIa gene from human adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) in Escherichia coli has been described previously (M. Cuillel, M. Milleville, and J. C. D'Halluin, 1987, Gene 55, 295-301). The same construct has now been used to express a protein IIIa gene from an Ad2 mutant ts 112 whose functional mutation occurs in this gene. The mutant virus is defective at nonpermissive temperatures in the latest stage of virus maturation. Both the wild-type and ts 112 recombinant proteins are produced in E. coli in an insoluble form, but are readily solubilized in urea. They have the same molecular weight in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), they sediment as a monomeric species in sucrose gradient centrifugation, and proteolytic digestion reveals a similar pattern for both proteins. Hydrodynamic studies and electron microscopy show that both proteins have an elongated shape, which can be approximated to a cylinder of 20 nm in length and 2.8 nm in diameter. The only well-established difference between the mutant and the wild-type recombinant protein is the higher solubility of the mutant.
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Chatellard C, Chroboczek J. Synthesis of human adenovirus type 2 fiber protein in Escherichia coli cells. Gene X 1989; 81:267-74. [PMID: 2680770 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(89)90187-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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We have cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli the gene encoding the trimeric fiber protein of human adenovirus type 2. A gene expression system based on bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase was used. Optimal gene expression was obtained with 1-h induction, at a temperature of 30 degrees C. The synthesized protein constituted about 1% of total host-cell protein. During induction, the growth of bacteria carrying the plasmid containing the fiber gene, was retarded compared with that of bacteria carrying the plasmid without the fiber gene. This toxic effect of fiber protein on bacterial hosts could be diminished by addition of glucose to the medium and by maintaining the pH above 7, thus improving the yield of recombinant fiber protein. The fiber protein produced in E. coli is stable during the course of induction. It is insoluble in buffers at physiological pH, in various salt solutions, and in the presence of nonionic detergents. It can be solubilized in 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate or in urea solutions above 2 M. There are indications that recombinant fiber trimerizes spontaneously, since after the removal of urea by dialysis at pH 8, recombinant fibers runs similarly to native trimeric fiber, on nondenaturing polyacrylamide gels. This trimer has, however, a less compact structure than native Ad2 fiber, since during gel filtration recombinant protein is excluded before native protein. It is also more sensitive to chymotrypsin digestion than native fiber.
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- C Chatellard
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, France
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