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ArticleMolecular biotechnology2018

Transcriptional Study of the RsmZ-sRNAs and Their Relationship to the Biosynthesis of Alginate and Alkylresorcinols in Azotobacter vinelandii.

Liliana López-Pliego, Liliana García-Ramírez, Emma Aurora Cruz-Gómez, Patricia Domínguez-Ojeda, Alejandra López-Pastrana, Luis Ernesto Fuentes-Ramírez, Cinthia Núñez, Miguel Castañeda

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Article in Molecular biotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Liliana López-PliegoCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Liliana García-RamírezCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Emma Aurora Cruz-GómezCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Patricia Domínguez-OjedaCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Alejandra López-PastranaCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Luis Ernesto Fuentes-RamírezCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México.
Cinthia NúñezDepartamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo Postal 510-3, 62250, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
Miguel CastañedaCentro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Microbiológicas, Instituto de Ciencias, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Apdo. Postal 1622, 72000, Puebla, Puebla, México. miguel.castaneda@correo.buap.mx.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4565-8514
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla · MXUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MX

Funding

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Apoyo extraordinario a proyectos de investigación VIEP2016-17
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The GacS/A system in Azotobacter vinelandii regulates alginate and alkylresorcinols production through RsmZ1, a small regulatory RNA (sRNA) that releases the translational repression of the algD and arpR mRNAs caused by the RsmA protein. In the Pseudomonadaceae family, the Rsm-sRNAs are grouped into three families: RsmX, RmsY and RsmZ. Besides RsmZ1, A. vinelandii has six other isoforms belonging to the RsmZ family and another one to the RsmY. Environmental signals controlling rsmsRNAs genes in A. vinelandii are unknown. In this work, we present a transcriptional study of the A. vinelandii rsmZ1-7-sRNAs genes, whose transcriptional profiles showed a differential expression pattern, but all of them exhibited their maximal expression at the stationary growth phase. Furthermore, we found that succinate promoted higher expression levels of all the rsmZ1-7 genes compared to glycolytic carbon sources. Single mutants of the rsmZ-sRNAs family were constructed and their impact on alginate production was assessed. We did not observe correlation between the alginate phenotype of each rsmZ-sRNA mutant and the expression level of the corresponding sRNA, which suggests the existence of additional factors affecting their impact on alginate production. Similar results were found in the regulation exerted by the RsmZ-sRNAs on alkylresorcinol synthesis.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialAlginatesAzotobacter vinelandiiCarbohydrate MetabolismCulture MediaGene Expression ProfilingMutationPromoter Regions, GeneticResorcinolsRNA, BacterialRNA, Small UntranslatedTranscription, GeneticAlginatesCulture MediaResorcinolsRNA, BacterialRNA, Small UntranslatedAlginateAlkylresorcinolsAzotobacterGacS/ARsmZ

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PMID29987520
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