GSE134667 Condensation of nucleoid during environmental adaptation is regulated by dynamic HU interactions

Contributors : Subhash C Verma ; Sankar Adhya ; Soumya G Remesh ; Michal HammelSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Escherichia coliNucleoid remodeling facilitated by DNA supercoiling results in changes in nucleoid configuration and involves nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) and structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins among others. Changes in nucleoid configurations regulated by NAPs are synchronized with cellular adaptation and influence the simultaneous expression of several genes. HU, a ubiquitous bacterial histone-like protein, is among the most conserved and abundant NAPs in eubacteria. In Escherichia coli, HU forms dimers by HU α self-association (HUαα) or by HUα-HUβ interactions (HUαβ). HUα is mostly expressed during lag and early exponential growth phase and HUβ is expressed only during the later exponential and stationary phase, pointing to distinct HUαα/DNA and HUαβ/DNA packaging of the nucleoid in regulat ing expression patterns during growth and stasis. Mutations or the deletion of HU transform the E. coli nucleoid to a different form and alter overall transcription program; thus, HU interactions with DNA directly affect global gene regulation. Recently, analysis of high-resolution contact maps of t he E. coli nucleoid revealed an important role of HU to promote long-range DNA-DNA contacts within the nucleoid. Yet, the molecular connections between HU-DNA interactions and changes in nucleoid ar...
Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing Escherichia coli Source Type: research