title: DNA microarray comparisons of plant factor- and nitrogen deprivation-induced Hormogonia reveal decision-making transcriptional regulation patterns in Nostoc punctiforme.
abstract: Hormogonia are nongrowing filaments, motile by means of a gliding mechanism, that are produced by certain cyanobacteria. Their differentiation is induced by positive and negative factors for growth, such as deprivation of combined nitrogen (nitrogen stress induction [NSI]). In Nostoc punctiforme, they are also induced by the exudate (hormogonium-inducing factor [HIF]) of a symbiotic plant partner. Time course (0.5 to 24 h) transcription profiles were determined by DNA microarray assays for hormogonia of N. punctiforme following induction by HIF and NSI. Clustering analysis revealed both common and distinct transcriptional patterns for the two methods of induction. By 24 h, a common set of 1,328 genes was identified. This 24-h common set of genes arose by the transition of 474 genes from an 819-member common set of genes at 1 h after induction; 405 and 51 genes unique to the HIF and NSI groups at 1 h, respectively; and 398 genes differentially transcribed at later time points. The NSI hormogonia showed a transcriptional checkpoint at 12 h following induction in which up- and downregulated genes were transiently down- or upregulated, respectively. The transient changes in these 1,043 genes appeared to reflect a switch back to a vegetative growth state. Such a checkpoint was not seen in HIF hormogonia. Genes uniquely upregulated in HIF hormogonia included those encoding proteins hypothesized to synthesize a metabolite repressor of hormogonium differentiation. Approximately 34 to 42% of the 6,893 printed genes were differentially transcribed during hormogonium differentiation; about half of those genes were upregulated, and 1,034 genes responded within 0.5 h after induction. These collective results indicate extensive and rapid global changes in the transcription of specific genes during the differentiation of these specialized filaments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, One Shields Ave., University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Elsie L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Harry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Christman
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Meeks
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial / Q000187:drug effects; D008954:Models, Biological; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D046937:Nostoc / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D013559:Symbiosis / Q000235:genetics; D014158:Transcription, Genetic / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D009584:Nitrogen
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