title: Genome-wide analysis of the general stress response network in Escherichia coli: sigmaS-dependent genes, promoters, and sigma factor selectivity.
abstract: The sigmaS (or RpoS) subunit of RNA polymerase is the master regulator of the general stress response in Escherichia coli. While nearly absent in rapidly growing cells, sigmaS is strongly induced during entry into stationary phase and/or many other stress conditions and is essential for the expression of multiple stress resistances. Genome-wide expression profiling data presented here indicate that up to 10% of the E. coli genes are under direct or indirect control of sigmaS and that sigmaS should be considered a second vegetative sigma factor with a major impact not only on stress tolerance but on the entire cell physiology under nonoptimal growth conditions. This large data set allowed us to unequivocally identify a sigmaS consensus promoter in silico. Moreover, our results suggest that sigmaS-dependent genes represent a regulatory network with complex internal control (as exemplified by the acid resistance genes). This network also exhibits extensive regulatory overlaps with other global regulons (e.g., the cyclic AMP receptor protein regulon). In addition, the global regulatory protein Lrp was found to affect sigmaS and/or sigma70 selectivity of many promoters. These observations indicate that certain modules of the sigmaS-dependent general stress response can be temporarily recruited by stress-specific regulons, which are controlled by other stress-responsive regulators that act together with sigma70 RNA polymerase. Thus, not only the expression of genes within a regulatory network but also the architecture of the network itself can be subject to regulation.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biologie, Mikrobiologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 12-16a, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Tino
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Polen
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heuveling
authors.forename: Volker F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Wendisch
authors.forename: Regine
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hengge
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D009997:Osmotic Pressure; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000502:physiology; D012808:Sigma Factor / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D012808:Sigma Factor; C069567:sigma factor KatF protein, Bacteria
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