Genomic footprinting uncovers global transcription factor responses to amino acids in Escherichia coli
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2023-10-18
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Our knowledge of transcriptional responses to changes in nutrient availability comes primarily from few well-studied transcription factors (TFs), often lacking an unbiased genome-wide perspective. Leveraging recent advances allowing bacterial genomic footprinting, we comprehensively mapped the genome-wide regulatory responses of Escherichia coli to exogenous leucine, methionine, alanine, and lysine. The global TF Lrp was found to individually sense three amino acids and mount three different target gene responses. Overall, 531 genes had altered RNA polymerase occupancy, and 32 TFs responded directly or indirectly to the presence of amino acids, including regulators of membrane and osmotic pressure homeostasis. About 70% of the detected TF-DNA interactions had not been reported before. We thus identified 682 previously unknown TF-binding locations, for a subset of which the involved TFs were identified by affinity purification. This comprehensive map of amino acid regulation illustrates the incompleteness of the known transcriptional regulation network, even in E. coli.
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14 (10)
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860 - 8710000
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Cell Press
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Transcriptional regulation; Transcription factors; RNA polymerase; Genomic footprinting; ChIP-seq; LC-MS; AP-MS; Metabolism; Regulation; Systems biology
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03713 - Sauer, Uwe / Sauer, Uwe