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Volume 155, Issue 8

Pivotal role of the heat-shock sigma factor RpoH Free

Abstract

is a highly infectious pathogen that infects animals and humans to cause the disease tularemia. The primary targets of this bacterium are macrophages, in which it replicates in the cytoplasm after escaping the initial phagosomal compartment. The ability to replicate within macrophages relies on the tightly regulated expression of a series of genes. One of the most commonly used means of coordinating the regulation of multiple genes in bacteria consists of the association of dedicated alternative sigma factors with the core of the RNA polymerase (RNAP). analysis of the LVS genome led us to identify, in addition to the genes encoding the RNAP core (comprising the 1, 2, , ′ and subunits), one gene (designated ) encoding the major sigma factor , and a unique gene () encoding a putative alternative sigma factor homologue of the heat-shock family (designated ). Hence, represents one of the minority of bacterial species that possess only one or no alternative sigma factor in addition to the main factor . In the present work, we show that encodes a genuine factor. Transcriptomic analyses of the LVS heat-stress response allowed the identification of a series of orthologues of known heat-shock genes (including those for Hsp40, GroEL, GroES, DnaK, DnaJ, GrpE, ClpB and ClpP) and a number of genes implicated in virulence. A bioinformatic analysis was used to identify genes preceded by a putative -binding site, revealing both similarities to and differences from RpoH-mediated gene expression in . Our results suggest that RpoH is an essential protein of , and positively regulates a subset of genes involved in the heat-shock response.

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Keyword(s): FDR, false discovery rate , FPI, Francisella pathogenicity island, MFS, major facilitator superfamily , PFM, position frequency matrix , qRT-PCR, quantitative RT-PCR , RNAP, RNA polymerase and TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research
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Pivotal role of the Francisella tularensis heat-shock sigma factor RpoH
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