Comprehensive Mapping of the Flagellar Regulatory Network

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Flagella are surface-associated appendages that propel bacteria and are involved in diverse functions such as chemotaxis, surface attachment, and host cell invasion. Flagella are incredibly complex macromolecular machines that are energetically costly to produce, assemble, and power. Flagellar production is tightly regulated and flagellar components are only synthesized when flagellar motility is advantageous. Regulation also ensures that flagellar components are produced in roughly the same order in which they are needed, increasing efficiency of the assembly process. The transcriptional regulation of flagellar genes has been studied extensively in the model organism Escherichia coli; however, many questions remain. We have used an unbiased, genome-wide approach to comprehensively identify all of the binding sites and regulatory targets for the two key regulators of flagellar synthesis, FlhDC and FliA. Our results redefine the flagellar regulatory network, and suggest that FliA binds many sites that are not associated with productive transcription. This work is important because it suggests possible new functions for FliA outside of the transcription of canonical mRNAs, and it provides new insight into the temporal orchestration of gene expression that coordinates the flagellar assembly process.

Vyšlo v časopise: Comprehensive Mapping of the Flagellar Regulatory Network. PLoS Genet 10(10): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004649
Kategorie: Research Article
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