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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

A defense-offense multi-layered regulatory switch in a pathogenic bacterium.

Mor Nitzan, Pierre Fechter, Asaf Peer, Yael Altuvia, Delphine Bronesky, François Vandenesch, Pascale Romby, Ofer Biham, Hanah Margalit

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mor NitzanRacah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Pierre FechterArchitecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg F-67084, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5912-361X
Asaf PeerDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Yael AltuviaDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Delphine BroneskyArchitecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg F-67084, France.
François VandeneschCIRI, International Center for Infectiology Research,Lyon, France Inserm, U1111, Lyon, France École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France CNRS, UMR5308, Lyon, France.
Pascale RombyArchitecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC, Strasbourg F-67084, France.
Ofer BihamRacah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Hanah MargalitDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel hanahm@ekmd.huji.ac.il.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · ILCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells adapt to environmental changes by efficiently adjusting gene expression programs. Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistic pathogenic bacterium, switches between defensive and offensive modes in response to quorum sensing signal. We identified and studied the structural characteristics and dynamic properties of the core regulatory circuit governing this switch by deterministic and stochastic computational methods, as well as experimentally. This module, termed here Double Selector Switch (DSS), comprises the RNA regulator RNAIII and the transcription factor Rot, defining a double-layered switch involving both transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulations. It coordinates the inverse expression of two sets of target genes, immuno-modulators and exotoxins, expressed during the defensive and offensive modes, respectively. Our computational and experimental analyses show that the DSS guarantees fine-tuned coordination of the inverse expression of its two gene sets, tight regulation, and filtering of noisy signals. We also identified variants of this circuit in other bacterial systems, suggesting it is used as a molecular switch in various cellular contexts and offering its use as a template for an effective switching device in synthetic biology studies.

Indexed as

Gene Regulatory NetworksGenes, BacterialBlotting, NorthernBlotting, WesternModels, TheoreticalStaphylococcus aureusStochastic Processes

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PMID25628364
PMCPMC4330369
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