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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2010

Small RNAs and small proteins involved in resistance to cell envelope stress and acid shock in Escherichia coli: analysis of a bar-coded mutant collection.

Errett C Hobbs, Jillian L Astarita, Gisela Storz

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 108 citations in OpenAlex.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Errett C HobbsCell Biology and Metabolism Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5430, USA.
Jillian L Astarita
Gisela Storz
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · US

Funding

Small Regulatory ProteinsZIAHD008855 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STORZ, GISELA · 2009 to 2025
$16.3M
Intramural NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 80 small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) and 60 proteins of 16 to 50 amino acids (small proteins) are encoded in the Escherichia coli genome. The vast majority of the corresponding genes have no known function. We screened 125 DNA bar-coded mutants to identify novel cell envelope stress and acute acid shock phenotypes associated with deletions of genes coding for sRNAs and small proteins. Nine deletion mutants (ssrA, micA, ybaM, ryeF, yqcG, sroH, ybhT, yobF, and glmY) were sensitive to cell envelope stress and two were resistant (rybB and blr). Deletion mutants of genes coding for four small proteins (yqgB, mgrB, yobF, and yceO) were sensitive to acute acid stress. We confirmed each of these phenotypes in one-on-one competition assays against otherwise-wild-type lacZ mutant cells. A more detailed investigation of the SsrA phenotype suggests that ribosome release is critical for resistance to cell envelope stress. The bar-coded deletion collection we generated can be screened for sensitivity or resistance to virtually any stress condition.

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Cell WallEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenetic Complementation TestHydrochloric AcidKanamycin ResistanceMutationOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisRNA, BacterialSodium Dodecyl SulfateStress, PhysiologicalEscherichia coli ProteinsHydrochloric AcidRNA, BacterialSodium Dodecyl Sulfate

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PMID19734312
PMCPMC2798238
OpenAlexW2116242363

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