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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2009, p. 1101-1105, Vol. 191, No. 3
0021-9193/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01530-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Extracytoplasmic Function Factors Regulate Expression of the Bacillus subtilis yabE Gene via a cis-Acting Antisense RNA

Warawan Eiamphungporn and John D. Helmann^*

Department of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-8101

Received 29 October 2008/ Accepted 23 November 2008

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Bacillus subtilis yabE encodes a predicted resuscitation-promoting factor/stationary-phase survival (Rpf/Sps) family autolysin. Here, we demonstrate that yabE is negatively regulated by a cis-acting antisense RNA which, in turn, is regulated by two extracytoplasmic function factors: ^X and ^M.

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Extracytoplasmic function (ECF) factors often regulate gene expression in response to environmental stresses that affect the cell envelope (12). In Bacillus subtilis, there are seven ECF factors. The best understood are ^M, ^W, and ^X, which control partially overlapping regulons related to cell envelope homeostasis and antibiotic resistance.

As a class, ECF factors recognize structurally similar promoters characterized by a conserved AAC motif in the –35 region (12, 21). In previous studies, we have defined consensus sequences for ^M, ^W, and ^X (2, 8, 17, 18, 30). Promoters recognized by one or more of these three factors (designated P_ECF) generally conform to the consensus TGwAAC-N₁₆-CGwCta (where w represents A or T and lowercase letters indicate residues that are less highly conserved) or TGwAAC-N₁₆-CGTAta (preferentially recognized by ^W). Since these three factors recognize overlapping sets of promoters, it is typically not possible to assign a given candidate promoter to one or another regulon by sequence alone (3, 16, 30, 38). In addition to conservation within these core (–35 and –10) recognition elements, active promoters are often associated with AT-rich upstream promoter elements (UP elements), and the spacer region adjacent to the –35 element often has a T-rich sequence (12).

In previous studies, we have focused our attention on those candidate P_ECF elements upstream of coding sequences (2, 17, 18). Here, we report the identification of a P_ECF downstream of and convergent with the yabE gene. YabE is a cell wall binding protein with similarity in its N-terminal domain to Mycobacterium tuberculosis RpfB (31). The C terminus of YabE contains an Sps (stationary-phase survival) domain in place of the Rpf domain, and YabE has been designated the founding member of the SpsB subfamily of muralytic enzymes (31). Rpf/Sps family proteins function as resuscitation-promoting factors that can restore growth to dormant cells, presumably by catalyzing peptidoglycan cleavage to allow renewed cell wall growth (5, 20). The bacterial strains, plasmids, and primers used in this study are listed in Table 1.

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TABLE 1. Bacterial strains, plasmids, and primers used in this study

Rpf proteins in the actinobacteria are the best understood. Rpf was originally discovered as a secreted protein that restores growth to dormant Micrococcus luteus cells and was subsequently found to be encoded by an essential gene (26, 28). In Corynebacterium glutamicum, Rpf proteins are dispensable but an rpf1 rpf2 double-mutant strain displays a prolonged lag phase when exiting from stationary phase (10). Rpf proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which encodes five members of this protein family (29), are the most well known. A mutant lacking all five proteins still grows well in vitro but is defective in the restoration of growth after stationary phase (19). Strains lacking one or more Rpf proteins are also defective in animal models of tuberculosis (7, 32, 36). The RpfB protein is particularly important, as evidenced by the delayed reactivation of the single rpfB mutant observed previously (36). RpfB interacts with a peptidoglycan endopeptidase, RipA, at cell division sites (13, 14). In contrast with those in the actinobacteria, the roles of Rpf/Sps family proteins in the low-GC-content gram-positive bacteria are poorly understood. Based on sequence comparisons, it is likely that these proteins, like their actinobacterial homologs (5, 27, 35), function as peptidoglycan hydrolases (autolysins). Specifically, the Sps domain of YabE corresponds to the conserved 3D domain (named for three conserved Asp residues) that constitutes the catalytic site of the Escherichia coli MltA lytic transglycosylase (37).

Pattern searches for P_ECF elements performed using the SubtiList database identified a sequence downstream of and convergent with the yabE gene (Fig. 1A) that is highly conserved in other Bacillus strains (Fig. 1B). To determine if this putative promoter (P_ECF) was active, this DNA region was amplified from B. subtilis chromosomal DNA and cloned into pDG1661, which contains a promoterless lacZ gene (9). The resulting plasmid was digested with ScaI and introduced by transformation into the B. subtilis CU1065 wild type (40). An overnight culture was diluted 1:100 in 50 ml of Luria-Bertani (LB) medium and grown at 37°C with vigorous shaking, and the β-galactosidase activity was monitored during growth as described previously (24). P_ECF activity peaked in the late-logarithmic-phase cells (Fig. 2A).

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FIG. 1. (A) Organization of yabE and the downstream PECF element. Promoter sites are indicated by bent arrows with a subscript to indicate the relevant holoenzyme(s). A putative transcription terminator downstream of yabE is indicated by an oval. RnmV is an RNase M5/primase-related protein involved in the maturation of the 5S rRNA (6). (B) Alignment of PECF elements from various bacilli. The intergenic region between yabE and rnmV of B. subtilis (Bsu) was aligned with the corresponding sequences from B. amyloliquefaciens (Bam) and B. licheniformis (Bli) by using the ClustalW2 program (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/clustalw2/index.html). The putative –10 and –35 regions are indicated. The run of seven A residues near the end of the sequence shown corresponds to the run of U residues in the yabE transcription terminator.

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FIG. 2. (A) Growth phase regulation of PECF. The β-galactosidase activity of the PECF-lacZ fusion in the wild type (CU1065) was assayed during growth in LB medium, with samples taken every 1 h for the measurement of the optical density at 600 nm (OD600) and the β-galactosidase activity. Solid squares represent growth at an optical density at 600 nm, while solid triangles represent β-galactosidase activity. (B) Mapping of the transcriptional start sites of yabE and ECF-directed antisense transcripts by the rapid amplification of cDNA 5' ends. The putative –10 and –35 regions are underlined. The transcription start sites are in bold, and the translation start site is italicized. PA is the promoter corresponding to A. Met indicates the start codon (methionine).

We verified the transcriptional start sites for both yabE and the P_ECF-directed antisense transcript by the rapid amplification of cDNA 5' ends. Total RNA was isolated from the wild-type strain at the time of maximal expression (3 h) by using the RNeasy minikit (Qiagen). After DNase treatment, 2 µg of RNA was used as a template for reverse transcription using Multiscribe reverse transcriptase (Taqman; Roche) and a gene-specific primer (GSP1). The resulting cDNA was purified and ligated to a poly(dC) tail with terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (New England Biolabs). The resulting cDNA was amplified by PCR using the poly(dG) primer to anneal at the poly(dC) tail and a second gene-specific primer (GSP2) complementary to a region upstream of GSP1. PCR products were separated by gel electrophoresis and sequenced. The resulting start site for the P_ECF is consistent with the assigned –35 and –10 elements (Fig. 2B). Unexpectedly, the yabE start site was at position +60 downstream of the assigned TTG start codon. This start site corresponds to a consensus ^A promoter (11) with –35 (TTGACA) and –10 (TATAAT) elements (Fig. 2B). This promoter sequence is also conserved among closely related bacilli, as is a downstream ATG start codon (data not shown). These findings, together with sequence comparisons between YabE and other orthologs, suggest that the translation start codon of this gene was misannotated previously.

To determine which ECF factors regulate P_ECF, we measured the expression of a P_ECF-lacZ fusion in strains with one or more ECF factor genes disrupted (Fig. 3A). P_ECF is dependent primarily on ^X, and as expected, the activity in a strain lacking the anti-^X factor RsiX was elevated. Interestingly, the expression of this promoter was weakly reduced in a sigM::kan mutant (8) but not in a sigW::mls mutant (17). Mindful of the potential for regulatory overlap between ECF factors (3, 16, 22, 25, 30), we tested a sigM sigX double-mutant strain and found that the double deletion eliminated the expression of P_ECF. Thus, we conclude that P_ECF is transcribed by both the ^X and ^M forms of RNA polymerase.

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FIG. 3. (A) PECF-directed antisense expression is dependent on X and M. The β-galactosidase activity of the PECF-lacZ fusion was assayed in various ECF deletion strains indicated by the relevant gene. Cultures were grown in LB medium, and samples were taken when cells reached late log phase. Data are expressed as averages ± standard deviations of results for triplicate samples. wt, wild type. (B) Regulation of yabE by an antisense RNA. Total RNA (15-µg) samples prepared from late-log-phase cultures of various deletion strains after growth in LB medium were analyzed by Northern blotting. RNA was separated, blotted, and hybridized with [-32P]ATP-labeled strand-specific probes for the yabE and the antisense RNA transcripts (indicated with arrowheads). The level of 23S rRNA is shown underneath as a loading control (2 µg of RNA was loaded). nt, nucleotides.

Next, we performed Northern blot analysis to monitor the size and abundance of the P_ECF-directed transcript. Fifteen micrograms of total RNA was isolated from cells in late-logarithmic-phase growth and run on a 1% formaldehyde denaturing gel by using NorthernMax denaturing gel buffer and running buffer (Ambion). The RNA was transferred onto a Zeta-Probe blotting membrane (Bio-Rad). The Northern analysis confirmed that the 750-nucleotide antisense RNA was highly transcribed in the rsiX background (Fig. 3B). In a parallel analysis, we found that yabE was expressed as a monocistronic transcript (1,300 nucleotides) whose abundance varied inversely with that of the P_ECF-directed antisense transcript (Fig. 3B). These results are consistent with the hypothesis that the antisense RNA prevents the accumulation of the yabE transcript, presumably by pairing with and facilitating the degradation of the sense transcript. Although we attempted to detect YabE (using a C-terminal FLAG epitope tag), we were unable to detect the protein either in cells or in the secreted protein fraction (data not shown).

B. subtilis contains four genes encoding Rpf/Sps family proteins: yabE, yocH, yuiC, and yorM (31). YocH is an autolysin under the control of the essential YycFG two-component system (15). Our strains do not contain yorM, which is located within the SPβ prophage. In order to determine the physiological role of yabE, we constructed yabE, yocH, and yuiC single-deletion mutants, as well as a triple mutant, by using long flanking homology PCR as described previously (23). In the actinobacteria, Rpf is assayed by the ability to restore growth to washed cells inoculated at high dilutions or into nutrient-poor medium (20, 26). To test whether B. subtilis growth was affected by the loss of these rpf-like genes, stationary-phase cultures in LB medium were serially diluted from 10^–1 to 10^–7 in LB or minimal medium. In parallel, the same cells were washed several times with LB or minimal medium prior to dilution. Samples of 200 µl were incubated in a microtiter plate at 37°C with continuous shaking, and growth was monitored in a Bioscreen C analyzer (Laboratory Systems, Finland) using a 600-nm filter. Under these conditions, there were no significant differences between the wild type and any of the deletion strains, nor did we detect substantial differences in sporulation efficiency or stationary-phase survival (data not shown). Similar results in a different B. subtilis strain background have been observed previously (M. Young, personal communication). These results indicate that the genes are dispensable under these conditions. Further studies will be required to define the roles of the proteins in cell wall turnover, growth, and/or long-term survival. One hint may be provided by the observation that both yabE and yocH are upregulated during growth under high-salt conditions (34). Both the ^X and ^M regulons are activated by antibiotics that inhibit cell wall synthesis (4, 8, 23). Thus, antisense regulation of YabE is consistent with the notion that the downregulation of cell wall lytic enzymes is adaptive when cell wall synthesis is impaired. Indeed, yocH is positively regulated by the YycFG two-component system, which simultaneously downregulates IseA (YoeB), an inhibitor of autolysins (33, 39).

In conclusion, we have demonstrated that two ECF factors, ^X and ^M, control the expression of an antisense RNA for yabE. The expression of this RNA is correlated with decreased accumulation of the yabE sense transcript, presumably due to the degradation of the resulting duplex RNA. The coregulation of genes involved in antibiotic resistance (22) and of the expression of teichoic acid synthesis genes and cell division functions in B. subtilis W23 (25) by ^X and ^M has been observed previously. The discovery of this ECF factor-regulated antisense RNA, together with the recent finding of ^M-dependent promoter elements within genes (8), suggests that current assignments of the regulons for ECF factors are likely incomplete. It can be anticipated that future studies, using chromatin immunoprecipitation-microarray analysis and powerful sequencing-based transcriptomics approaches, will facilitate a more complete inventory of ECF factor-dependent transcription.

 
We thank Mike Young for helpful discussions of the Rpf/Sps family proteins and for sharing unpublished results.

This work was supported by a grant from the NIH (GM-047446).

 
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, Wing Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-8101. Phone: (607) 255-6570. Fax: (607) 255-3904. E-mail: jdh9{at}cornell.edu

Published ahead of print on 1 December 2008.

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Journal of Bacteriology, February 2009, p. 1101-1105, Vol. 191, No. 3
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