Carbon starvation and growth rate-dependent regulation of the Escherichia coli ribosomal RNA promoters: differential control of dual promoters.
AUTOR(ES)
Sarmientos, P
RESUMO
We studied the effects of carbon starvation and of varying the growth rate on the activity of each of the two tandem ribosomal RNA promoters from the rrnA operon of Escherichia coli. The cellular abundance of plasmid-encoded transcripts arising at promoters P1 and P2 and terminating at the ribosomal RNA terminator in promoter-terminator fusions, together with transcript turnover rates, was used to estimate promoter activities. The rate of synthesis of the P1-promoted transcript was found to increase exponentially with growth rate and predominate at fast growth rates. The activity of the downstream promoter (P2) changed only slightly at different growth rates. Upon carbon starvation, little or no activity of the upstream promoter was detectable, while P2 activity persisted. We interpret this to mean that the dual promoters are differentially regulated so as to have separate adaptive and maintenance functions. This model simplifies most features of rRNA regulation known in E. coli.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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