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Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli
Curli amyloid fibers are a major constituent of the extracellular biofilm matrix formed by bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family. Within Escherichia coli biofilms, curli gene expression is limited to a subpopulation of bacteria, leading to heterogeneity of extracellular matrix synthesis. Here we...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37186613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010750 |
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author | Lamprecht, Olga Ratnikava, Maryia Jacek, Paulina Kaganovitch, Eugen Buettner, Nina Fritz, Kirstin Biazruchka, Ina Köhler, Robin Pietsch, Julian Sourjik, Victor |
author_facet | Lamprecht, Olga Ratnikava, Maryia Jacek, Paulina Kaganovitch, Eugen Buettner, Nina Fritz, Kirstin Biazruchka, Ina Köhler, Robin Pietsch, Julian Sourjik, Victor |
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description | Curli amyloid fibers are a major constituent of the extracellular biofilm matrix formed by bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family. Within Escherichia coli biofilms, curli gene expression is limited to a subpopulation of bacteria, leading to heterogeneity of extracellular matrix synthesis. Here we show that bimodal activation of curli gene expression also occurs in well-mixed planktonic cultures of E. coli, resulting in all-or-none stochastic differentiation into distinct subpopulations of curli-positive and curli-negative cells at the entry into the stationary phase of growth. Stochastic curli activation in individual E. coli cells could further be observed during continuous growth in a conditioned medium in a microfluidic device, which further revealed that the curli-positive state is only metastable. In agreement with previous reports, regulation of curli gene expression by the second messenger c-di-GMP via two pairs of diguanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase enzymes, DgcE/PdeH and DgcM/PdeR, modulates the fraction of curli-positive cells. Unexpectedly, removal of this regulatory network does not abolish the bimodality of curli gene expression, although it affects dynamics of activation and increases heterogeneity of expression levels among individual cells. Moreover, the fraction of curli-positive cells within an E. coli population shows stronger dependence on growth conditions in the absence of regulation by DgcE/PdeH and DgcM/PdeR pairs. We thus conclude that, while not required for the emergence of bimodal curli gene expression in E. coli, this c-di-GMP regulatory network attenuates the frequency and dynamics of gene activation and increases its robustness to cellular heterogeneity and environmental variation. |
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spelling | pubmed-102120852023-05-26 Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli Lamprecht, Olga Ratnikava, Maryia Jacek, Paulina Kaganovitch, Eugen Buettner, Nina Fritz, Kirstin Biazruchka, Ina Köhler, Robin Pietsch, Julian Sourjik, Victor PLoS Genet Research Article Curli amyloid fibers are a major constituent of the extracellular biofilm matrix formed by bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family. Within Escherichia coli biofilms, curli gene expression is limited to a subpopulation of bacteria, leading to heterogeneity of extracellular matrix synthesis. Here we show that bimodal activation of curli gene expression also occurs in well-mixed planktonic cultures of E. coli, resulting in all-or-none stochastic differentiation into distinct subpopulations of curli-positive and curli-negative cells at the entry into the stationary phase of growth. Stochastic curli activation in individual E. coli cells could further be observed during continuous growth in a conditioned medium in a microfluidic device, which further revealed that the curli-positive state is only metastable. In agreement with previous reports, regulation of curli gene expression by the second messenger c-di-GMP via two pairs of diguanylate cyclase and phosphodiesterase enzymes, DgcE/PdeH and DgcM/PdeR, modulates the fraction of curli-positive cells. Unexpectedly, removal of this regulatory network does not abolish the bimodality of curli gene expression, although it affects dynamics of activation and increases heterogeneity of expression levels among individual cells. Moreover, the fraction of curli-positive cells within an E. coli population shows stronger dependence on growth conditions in the absence of regulation by DgcE/PdeH and DgcM/PdeR pairs. We thus conclude that, while not required for the emergence of bimodal curli gene expression in E. coli, this c-di-GMP regulatory network attenuates the frequency and dynamics of gene activation and increases its robustness to cellular heterogeneity and environmental variation. Public Library of Science 2023-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10212085/ /pubmed/37186613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010750 Text en © 2023 Lamprecht et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lamprecht, Olga Ratnikava, Maryia Jacek, Paulina Kaganovitch, Eugen Buettner, Nina Fritz, Kirstin Biazruchka, Ina Köhler, Robin Pietsch, Julian Sourjik, Victor Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title | Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title_full | Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title_fullStr | Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title_full_unstemmed | Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title_short | Regulation by cyclic di-GMP attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in Escherichia coli |
title_sort | regulation by cyclic di-gmp attenuates dynamics and enhances robustness of bimodal curli gene activation in escherichia coli |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37186613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010750 |
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