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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2004, p. 3006-3014, Vol. 186, No. 10
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.3006-3014.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Signal Transduction Cascade between EvgA/EvgS and PhoP/PhoQ Two-Component Systems of Escherichia coli

Yoko Eguchi,1 Tadashi Okada,1 Shu Minagawa,1 Taku Oshima,2 Hirotada Mori,2 Kaneyoshi Yamamoto,1 Akira Ishihama,3 and Ryutaro Utsumi1*

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 190-0024, Japan3

Received 31 July 2003/ Accepted 3 February 2004

Transcriptional analysis of a constitutively active mutant of the EvgA/EvgS two-component system of Escherichia coli resulted in enhanced expression of 13 PhoP/PhoQ-regulated genes, crcA, hemL, mgtA, ompT, phoP, phoQ, proP, rstA, rstB, slyB, ybjG, yrbL, and mgrB. This regulatory network between the two systems also occurred as a result of overproduction of the EvgA regulator; however, enhanced transcription of the phoPQ genes did not further activate expression of the PhoP/PhoQ-regulated genes. These results demonstrated signal transduction from the EvgA/EvgS system to the PhoP/PhoQ system in E. coli and also identified the genes that required the two systems for enhanced expression. This is one example of the intricate signal transduction networks that are posited to exist in E. coli.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kinki University, 3327-204 Nakamachi, Nara 631-8505, Japan. Phone: 81-742-43-7306. Fax: 81-742-43-1445. E-mail: utsumi{at}nara.kindai.ac.jp.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2004, p. 3006-3014, Vol. 186, No. 10
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.3006-3014.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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