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Journal of Bacteriology, October 2001, p. 5974-5981, Vol. 183, No. 20
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.20.5974-5981.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

RpoS-Dependent Transcriptional Control of sprE: Regulatory Feedback Loop

Natividad Ruiz, Celeste N. Peterson, and Thomas J. Silhavy*

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544

Received 1 June 2001/Accepted 16 July 2001

The stationary-phase response exhibited by Escherichia coli upon nutrient starvation is mainly induced by a decrease of the ClpXP-dependent degradation of the alternate primary sigma  factor RpoS. Although it is known that the specific regulation of this proteolysis is exercised by the orphan response regulator SprE, it remains unclear how SprE's activity is regulated in vivo. Previous studies have demonstrated that the cellular content of SprE itself is paradoxically increased in stationary-phase cells in an RpoS-dependent fashion. We show here that this RpoS-dependent upregulation of SprE levels is due to increased transcription. Furthermore, we demonstrate that sprE is part of the two-gene rssA-sprE operon, but it can also be transcribed from an additional RpoS-dependent promoter located in the rssA-sprE intergenic region. In addition, by using an in-frame deletion in rssA we found that RssA does not regulate either SprE or RpoS under the conditions tested.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Phone: (609) 258-5899. Fax: (609) 258-2957. E-mail: tsilhavy{at}molbio.princeton.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, October 2001, p. 5974-5981, Vol. 183, No. 20
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.20.5974-5981.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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