micF RNA in ompB mutants of Escherichia coli: different pathways regulate micF RNA levels in response to osmolarity and temperature change.
AUTOR(ES)
Coyer, J
RESUMO
The repressor RNA, micF RNA, is regulated by temperature, osmolarity, and other stress conditions during growth of Escherichia coli. Northern (RNA) blot analyses showed that levels of micF RNA differ widely in various ompB mutant strains when cells are grown at 24 degrees C in LB broth. For example, relative to the parental strain MC4100, the ompR101 mutant strain (which contains no functional OmpR) had about a 10-fold reduction in micF RNA, whereas the envZ11 strain showed about a 5-fold increase. At 37 degrees C, however, micF RNA levels in the ompR101 and envZ11 strains and other ompB mutants differed by less than two-fold compared with the level in strain MC4100, thus indicating that a factor(s) independent of the ompB locus regulates micF RNA expression with temperature increase and that there is an additional control mechanism(s) which maintains the levels of micF RNA in these mutants close to that of the wild type during growth at high temperatures. In a plasmid strain containing the micF gene but without the upstream OmpR-binding site, steady-state levels of micF RNA increased with temperature increase but did not change with osmolarity increase. This showed that osmolal regulation but not temperature regulation of micF depends on these upstream sequences and suggested that while osmolal regulation of the micF gene depends on OmpR, thermal regulation does not.
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