Absence of RstA results in delayed initiation of DNA replication in Escherichia coli

PloS One
Yuan YaoRunxiu Zhu

Abstract

RstB/RstA is an uncharacterized Escherichia coli two-component system, the regulatory effects of which on the E. coli cell cycle remain unclear. We found that the doubling time and average number of replication origins per cell in an ΔrstB mutant were the same as the wild-type, and the average number of replication origins in an ΔrstA mutant was 18.2% lower than in wild-type cells. The doubling times were 34 min, 35 min, and 40 min for the wild-type, ΔrstB, and ΔrstA strains, respectively. Ectopic expression of RstA from plasmid pACYC-rstA partly reversed the ΔrstA mutant phenotypes. The amount of initiator protein DnaA per cell was reduced by 40% in the ΔrstA mutant compared with the wild-type, but the concentration of DnaA did not change as the total amount of cellular protein was also reduced in these cells. Deletion or overproduction of RstA does not change the temperature sensitivity of dnaA46, dnaB252 and dnaC2. The expression of hupA was decreased by 0.53-fold in ΔrstA. RstA interacted with Topoisomerase I weakly in vivo and increased its activity of relaxing the negative supercoiled plasmid. Our data suggest that deletion of RstA leads to delayed initiation of DNA replication, and RstA may affect initiation of replicati...Continue Reading

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