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Differential Impact of Hexuronate Regulators ExuR and UxuR on the Escherichia coli Proteome

Version 1 : Received: 27 June 2022 / Approved: 28 June 2022 / Online: 28 June 2022 (10:42:44 CEST)

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Bessonova, T.A.; Fando, M.S.; Kostareva, O.S.; Tutukina, M.N.; Ozoline, O.N.; Gelfand, M.S.; Nikulin, A.D.; Tishchenko, S.V. Differential Impact of Hexuronate Regulators ExuR and UxuR on the Escherichia coli Proteome. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 8379. Bessonova, T.A.; Fando, M.S.; Kostareva, O.S.; Tutukina, M.N.; Ozoline, O.N.; Gelfand, M.S.; Nikulin, A.D.; Tishchenko, S.V. Differential Impact of Hexuronate Regulators ExuR and UxuR on the Escherichia coli Proteome. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022, 23, 8379.

Abstract

ExuR and UxuR are paralogous proteins belonging to the GntR family of transcriptional regulators. Both are known to control hexuronic acid metabolism in a variety of Gammaproteobacteria but the relative impact of each of them is still unclear. Here, we apply 2D difference electrophoresis followed by mass-spectrometry to characterise the changes in the Escherichia coli proteome in response to the uxuR or exuR deletion. Our data clearly show that the effects are different: deletion of uxuR resulted in significantly enhanced expression of D-mannonate dehydratase UxuA and flagellar protein FliC, and inhibition of outer membrane porin OmpF, while the absence of ExuR did not significantly alter the spectrum of detected proteins.This suggests that the roles of proteins predicted as homologs are far from identical. Effects of uxuR deletion were largely dependent on the cultivation conditions: during growth with glucose, UxuA and FliC were dramatically altered, while during growth with glucuronate activation of both was not so prominent. During growth on glucose, the maximal activation was detected for FliC. This was further confirmed by expression analysis and physiological tests thus suggesting involvement of UxuR in the regulation of bacterial motility and biofilm formation.

Keywords

UxuR; ExuR; Ashwell pathway; uxuAB; fliC; proteome; motility; biofilm formation

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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