Regulation of late-acting operons by three transcription factors and a CRISPR-Cas component during Myxococcus xanthus development.
Mol Microbiol
; 121(5): 1002-1020, 2024 05.
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ABSTRACT
Upon starvation, rod-shaped Myxococcus xanthus bacteria form mounds and then differentiate into round, stress-resistant spores. Little is known about the regulation of late-acting operons important for spore formation. C-signaling has been proposed to activate FruA, which binds DNA cooperatively with MrpC to stimulate transcription of developmental genes. We report that this model can explain regulation of the fadIJ operon involved in spore metabolism, but not that of the spore coat biogenesis operons exoA-I, exoL-P, and nfsA-H. Rather, a mutation in fruA increased the transcript levels from these operons early in development, suggesting negative regulation by FruA, and a mutation in mrpC affected transcript levels from each operon differently. FruA bound to all four promoter regions in vitro, but strikingly each promoter region was unique in terms of whether or not MrpC and/or the DNA-binding domain of Nla6 bound, and in terms of cooperative binding. Furthermore, the DevI component of a CRISPR-Cas system is a negative regulator of all four operons, based on transcript measurements. Our results demonstrate complex regulation of sporulation genes by three transcription factors and a CRISPR-Cas component, which we propose produces spores suited to withstand starvation and environmental insults.
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Óperon
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Esporos Bacterianos
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Proteínas de Bactérias
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Fatores de Transcrição
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Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica
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Regiões Promotoras Genéticas
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Myxococcus xanthus
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Sistemas CRISPR-Cas
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2024
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