RRC ID 3217
著者 Hua Q, Yang C, Oshima T, Mori H, Shimizu K.
タイトル Analysis of gene expression in Escherichia coli in response to changes of growth-limiting nutrient in chemostat cultures.
ジャーナル Appl Environ Microbiol
Abstract Studies of steady-state metabolic fluxes in Escherichia coli grown in nutrient-limited chemostat cultures suggest remarkable flux alterations in response to changes of growth-limiting nutrient in the medium (Hua et al., J. Bacteriol. 185:7053-7067, 2003). To elucidate the physiological adaptation of cells to the nutrient condition through the flux change and understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the change in the flux, information on gene expression is of great importance. DNA microarray analysis was performed to investigate the global transcriptional responses of steady-state cells grown in chemostat cultures with limited glucose or ammonia while other environmental conditions and the growth rate were kept constant. In slow-growing cells (specific growth rate of 0.10 h(-1)), 9.8% of a total of 4,071 genes investigated, especially those involved in amino acid metabolism, central carbon and energy metabolism, transport system and cell envelope, were observed to be differentially expressed between the two nutrient-limited cultures. One important characteristic of E. coli grown under nutrient limitation was its capacity to scavenge carbon or nitrogen from the medium through elevating the expression of the corresponding transport and assimilation genes. The number of differentially expressed genes in faster-growing cells (specific growth rate of 0.55 h(-1)), however, decreased to below half of that in slow-growing cells, which could be explained by diverse transcriptional responses to the growth rate under different nutrient limitations. Independent of the growth rate, 92 genes were identified as being differentially expressed. Genes tightly related to the culture conditions were highlighted, some of which may be used to characterize nutrient-limited growth.
巻・号 70(4)
ページ 2354-66
公開日 2004-4-1
DOI 10.1128/AEM.70.4.2354-2366.2004
PMID 15066832
PMC PMC383082
MeSH Amino Acids / metabolism Ammonia / metabolism Culture Media Energy Metabolism Escherichia coli / genetics* Escherichia coli / growth & development* Escherichia coli / metabolism Gene Expression Gene Expression Profiling Genes, Bacterial* Glucose / metabolism Nitrogen / metabolism Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis
IF 4.016
引用数 119
WOS 分野 BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY
リソース情報
原核生物(大腸菌) JW0991-7 JW1772-3