Rangarajan, Aathmaja Anandhi (2018). Interference of transcription on H-NS mediated repression in Escherichia coli. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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The heat-stable nucleoid-associated protein H-NS is a global transcriptional repressor in Escherichia coli and other Enterobacterial species. H-NS binds to AT-rich DNA regions repressing several stress response genes, pathogenic genes, horizontally acquired DNA and is also indicated to play a role in genome organization. Transcriptional repression by H-NS is mediated by the formation of nucleoprotein complex that stiffens or bridges DNA. H-NS represses transcription at the level of initiation by excluding or trapping the RNA polymerase at promoters. StpA is a H-NS paralogue that presumably acts similarly as H-NS and forms heteromeric complex with H-NS and some genes are repressed by H-NS and StpA. H-NS mediated repression can be relieved by binding of gene specific transcription factors or by perturbations of DNA structure. H-NS repression and transcription elongation may also interfere with each other. In vitro, H-NS enhances RNA polymerase pausing and promotes Rho-dependent termination. Complementarily, inhibition of Rho-mediated termination resulting in increased transcription reduced H-NS binding. In this work, the effect of transcription elongation into H-NS and H-NS/StpA repressed promoters were analyzed. The results show that transcription elongation across the H-NS and H-NS/StpA bound DNA region of bgl, proU, pdeL and appY relieves the repression of promoter by H-NS and H-NS/StpA. For example, analysis of transcripts from bglDRE (bgl downstream regulatory element) revealed the presence of additional H-NS repressed promoter P3bgl which was de-repressed upon increase in transcription. Moreover, in the native context, transcription from upstream pst-phoU operon decreases H-NS/StpA repression of bgl promoters. Additionally, an inverse correlation between the transcription rate and H-NS repression was observed. The data suggest that the transcribing RNA polymerase is able to remodel the H-NS (and StpA) complex and/or dislodge H-NS (and StpA) from the DNA and thus relieve repression, while at low transcription rates the H-NS repression complex is stable. This implies mutual interference between transcription and H-NS repression. Poorly transcribed AT-rich regions are prone to be repressed by H-NS, whereas efficiently transcribed region do not allow the formation of repression complex. Furthermore, the transcriptional read-through from an upstream locus can concurrently dislodge the H-NS complex of downstream genes and modify their expression
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-80986 | ||||||||
Date: | 8 March 2018 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Biology > Institute for Genetics | ||||||||
Subjects: | Natural sciences and mathematics | ||||||||
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Date of oral exam: | 8 January 2018 | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/8101 |
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