The Escherichia coli Fis promoter is regulated by changes in the levels of its transcription initiation nucleotide CTP.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Kimberly A WalkerRobert Osuna

Abstract

Expression of the Escherichia coli nucleoid-associated protein Fis (factor for inversion stimulation) is controlled at the transcriptional level in accordance with the nutritional availability. It is highly expressed during early logarithmic growth phase in cells growing in rich medium but poorly expressed in late logarithmic and stationary phase. However, fis mRNA expression is prolonged at high levels throughout the logarithmic and early stationary phase when the preferred transcription initiation site (+1C) is replaced with A or G, indicating that initiation with CTP is a required component of the regulation pattern. We show that RNA polymerase-fis promoter complexes are short lived and that transcription is stimulated over 20-fold from linear or supercoiled DNA if CTP is present during formation of initiation complexes, which serves to stabilize these complexes. Use of fis promoter fusions to lacZ indicated that fis promoter transcription is sensitive to the intracellular pool of the predominant initiating NTP. Growth conditions resulting in increases in CTP pools also result in corresponding increases in fis mRNA levels. Measurements of NTP pools performed throughout the growth of the bacterial culture in rich medium revea...Continue Reading

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