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ArticleScientific reports2019

Mutations in sigma 70 transcription factor improves expression of functional eukaryotic membrane proteins in Escherichia coli.

Pablo Emiliano Tomatis, Marco Schütz, Elina Umudumov, Andreas Plückthun

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. 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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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Pablo Emiliano TomatisDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1126-8200
Marco SchützDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Elina UmudumovDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland.
Andreas PlückthunDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zurich, Switzerland. plueckthun@bioc.uzh.ch.ORCID 0000-0003-4191-5306
University of Zurich · CHZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eukaryotic integral membrane proteins (IMPs) are difficult to study due to low functional expression levels. To investigate factors for efficient biogenesis of eukaryotic IMPs in the prokaryotic model organism Escherichia coli, important, e.g., for isotope-labeling for NMR, we selected for E. coli cells expressing high levels of functional G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) by FACS. Utilizing an E. coli strain library with all non-essential genes systematically deleted, we unexpectedly discovered upon whole-genome sequencing that the improved phenotype was not conferred by the deleted genes but by various subtle alterations in the "housekeeping" sigma 70 factor (RpoD). When analyzing effects of the rpoD mutations at the transcriptome level we found that toxic effects incurred on wild-type E. coli during receptor expression were diminished by two independent and synergistic effects: a slower but longer-lasting GPCR biosynthesis and an optimized transcriptional pattern, augmenting growth and expression at low temperature, setting the basis for further bacterial strain engineering.

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MutationDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMembrane ProteinsModels, MolecularPhenotypeProtein ConformationSigma FactorWhole Genome SequencingDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesEscherichia coli ProteinsMembrane ProteinsRNA polymerase sigma 70Sigma Factor

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PMID30792443
PMCPMC6384906
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