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Identification and Molecular Characterization of the Mg²⁺ Stimulon of Escherichia coli

Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, 3327-204 Nakamachi, Nara 631-8505,¹ Research and Education Center for Genetic Information, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma 630-0101,² Division of Molecular Biology, Nippon Institute for Biological Science, Ome, Tokyo 198-0024, Japan³

Received 30 October 2002/ Accepted 14 April 2003

Transcription profile microarray analysis in Escherichia coli was performed to identify the member genes of the Mg²⁺ stimulon that respond to the availability of external Mg²⁺ in a PhoP/PhoQ two-component system-dependent manner. The mRNA levels of W3110 in the presence of 30 mM MgCl₂, WP3022 (phoP defective), and WQ3007 (phoQ defective) were compared with those of W3110 in the absence of MgCl₂. The expression ratios of a total of 232 genes were <0.75 in all three strains (the supplemental data are shown at http://www.nara.kindai.ac.jp/nogei/seiken/array.html), suggesting that the PhoP/PhoQ system is involved directly or indirectly in the transcription of these genes. Of those, 26 contained the PhoP box-like sequences with the direct repeats of (T/G)GTTTA within 500 bp upstream of the initiation codon. Furthermore, S1 nuclease assays of 26 promoters were performed to verify six new Mg²⁺ stimulon genes, hemL, nagA, rstAB, slyB, vboR, and yrbL, in addition to the phoPQ, mgrB, and mgtA genes reported previously. In gel shift and DNase I footprinting assays, all of these genes were found to be regulated directly by PhoP. Thus, we concluded that the phoPQ, mgrB, mgtA, hemL, nagA, rstAB, slyB, vboR, and yrbL genes make up the Mg²⁺ stimulon in E. coli.

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