Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase expression is cell cycle regulated.
AUTOR(ES)
Sun, L
RESUMO
The expression of the genes encoding ribonucleotide reductase in Escherichia coli was investigated in cultures synchronized by obtaining the smallest cells in a population after sucrose gradient centrifugation. Specific activity of ribonucleotide reductase and DNA initiation were found to increase in parallel, periodically as a function of the cell cycle. The expression of nrd was also determined in cells synchronized by periodic repeated doubling in a phosphate limited medium. Antibodies directed against the B2 subunit of ribonucleotide reductase were raised in a rabbit and purified. Immunoprecipitation of the B2 subunit and RNA-DNA dot blot hybridization assays were developed and employed to determine the expression of ribonucleotide reductase translational and transcriptional products during the cell cycle. Both of nrd-mRNA and B2 subunit expression were found to increase each generation at approximately the same time DNA synthesis was initiated and then to decrease back to the basal level shortly after DNA initiation. These results provided evidence of cell cycle dependent regulation of ribonucleotide reductase in E. coli. When the upstream regulatory region of nrd was fused to a promoterless lacZ gene on a single copy plasmid, lac-mRNA and beta-galactosidase were found to be synthesized in parallel to nrd expression from the chromosomal operon. When nrd sequences surrounding the promoter were removed from this construct, lac-mRNA and beta-galactosidase synthesis were no longer cell cycle regulated.
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