The nitrogen regulator PipX acts in cis to prevent operon polarity
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Títol: | The nitrogen regulator PipX acts in cis to prevent operon polarity |
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Autors: | Cantos, Raquel | Labella, Jose I. | Espinosa, Javier | Contreras, Asunción |
Grups d'investigació o GITE: | Transducción de Señales en Bacterias |
Centre, Departament o Servei: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología |
Paraules clau: | Cyanobacteria | Nitrogen regulator | PipX | Operon polarity |
Àrees de coneixement: | Genética |
Data de publicació: | 20-d’agost-2018 |
Editor: | Wiley |
Citació bibliogràfica: | Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2019, 11(4): 495-507. doi:10.1111/1758-2229.12688 |
Resum: | Cyanobacteria, phototrophic organisms performing oxygenic photosynthesis, must adapt their metabolic processes to important environmental challenges, like those imposed by the succession of days and nights. Not surprisingly, certain regulatory proteins are found exclusively in this phylum. One of these unique factors, PipX, provides a mechanistic link between signals of carbon/nitrogen and of energy, transduced by the signalling protein PII, and the control of gene expression by the global nitrogen regulator NtcA. Here we report a new regulatory function of PipX: enhancement in cis of pipY expression, a gene encoding a universally conserved protein involved in amino/keto acid and Pyridoxal phosphate homeostasis. In Synechococcus elongatus and many other cyanobacteria these genes are expressed as a bicistronic pipXY operon. Despite being cis‐acting, polarity suppression by PipX is nevertheless reminiscent of the function of NusG paralogues typified by RfaH, which are non‐essential operon‐specific bacterial factors acting in trans to upregulate horizontally‐acquired genes. Furthermore, PipX and members of the NusG superfamily share a TLD/KOW structural domain, suggesting regulatory interactions of PipX with the translation machinery. Our results also suggest that the cis‐acting function of PipX is a sophisticated regulatory strategy for maintaining appropriate PipX–PipY stoichiometry. |
Patrocinadors: | The authors thank the Spanish Government (MINECO) for supporting grants BFU2012‐33364 and BFU2015‐66360‐P to A.C. and the University of Alicante for PhD fellowship (FPUUA59) to J.I.L. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/82813 |
ISSN: | 1758-2229 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1758-2229.12688 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipus: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Drets: | © John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
Revisió científica: | si |
Versió de l'editor: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12688 |
Apareix a la col·lecció: | INV - TSB - Artículos de Revistas |
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