PMID: 19129642Jan 9, 2009Paper

Long-term survival of Escherichia coli lacking the HipBA toxin-antitoxin system during prolonged cultivation

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry
Hiroaki KawanoHideo Mori

Abstract

We designed and constructed six major toxin-antitoxin disruptants (DeltachpBIK, DeltadinJ-yafQ, DeltahipBA, DeltamazEF, DeltarelBE, and DeltayefM-yoeB) of Escherichia coli K-12 W3110. On prolonged cultivation of these disruptants with minimal M9 medium, the DeltahipBA cells exhibited a significantly longer life span than that of the other disruptants and of wild-type cells, as analyzed with a LIVE/DEAD BacLight kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) in combination with flow cytometry analysis. The gene expression level of hipA in the wild-type cells was highest at the stationary phase of 40 h. The DeltahipBA cells showed higher macromolecular synthesis activity than the wild-type cells at the stationary phase. Stationary phase cells of DeltahipBA and the wild-type strain showed a significantly extended life span under anaerobic conditions. Furthermore, the DeltahipBA cells showed higher resistance to H(2)O(2) than the wild type. These results suggest that HipBA induces cell death with oxidative stress during prolonged cultivation. This is the first report that an E. coli toxin-antitoxin (TA) system affects frequency of survival during the long-term stationary phase.

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