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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2010

Multiple promoters contribute to swarming and the coordination of transcription with flagellar assembly in Salmonella.

Christopher E Wozniak, Fabienne F V Chevance, Kelly T Hughes

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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 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Christopher E WozniakDepartment of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. hughes@biology.utah.edu
Fabienne F V Chevance
Kelly T Hughes
University of Fribourg · CHUniversity of Utah · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Coupling gene regulation to flagellar morphogenesisR01GM056141 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HUGHES, KELLY T · 1998 to 2023
$8.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM056141NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM056141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In Salmonella, there are three classes of promoters in the flagellar transcriptional hierarchy. This organization allows genes needed earlier in the construction of flagella to be transcribed before genes needed later. Four operons (fliAZY, flgMN, fliDST, and flgKL) are expressed from both class 2 and class 3 promoters. To investigate the purpose for expressing genes from multiple flagellar promoters, mutants were constructed for each operon that were defective in either class 2 transcription or class 3 transcription. The mutants were checked for defects in swimming through liquids, swarming over surfaces, and transcriptional regulation. The expression of the hook-associated proteins (FlgK, FlgL, and FliD) from class 3 promoters was found to be important for swarming motility. Both flgMN promoters were involved in coordinating class 3 transcription with the stage of assembly of the hook-basal body. Finally, the fliAZY class 3 promoter lowered class 3 transcription in stationary phase. These results indicate that the multiple flagellar promoters respond to specific environmental conditions and help coordinate transcription with flagellar assembly.

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Transcription, GeneticBacterial ProteinsFlagellaMembrane ProteinsOperonPolymerase Chain ReactionPromoter Regions, GeneticSalmonella typhimuriumSigma FactorBacterial ProteinsFliA protein, BacteriaFliY protein, BacteriaMembrane ProteinsSigma Factor

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PMID20639318
PMCPMC2937404
OpenAlexW2151923548

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