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Cold Shock Protein (cold + shock_protein)

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Antibiotics, arsenate and H2O2 induce the promoter of Staphylococcus aureus cspC gene more strongly than cold

JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
Palas Kumar Chanda
Abstract Proteins expressed by the bacterial cold shock genes are highly conserved at sequence level and perform various biological functions in both the cold-stressed and normal cells. To study the effects of various agents on the cold shock genes of Staphylococcus aureus, we have cloned the upstream region of cspC from S. aureus Newman and found that the above region possesses appreciable promoter (Pc) activity even at 37 °C. A reporter S. aureus strain CHANDA2, constructed by inserting the Pc - lacZ transcriptional fusion into S. aureus RN4220 genome, was found to express very low level of , -galactosidase after cold shock, indicating that low temperature induces Pc very weakly. Interestingly, transcription from Pc was induced very strongly by several antibiotics, hydrogen peroxide and arsenate salt. Cold shock proteins expressed by S. aureus are highly identical at sequence level and bear single-strand nucleic acid binding motifs. A 16 nt downstream box and a 13 nt upstream box were identified at the downstream of initiation codon and at the upstream of ribosome binding site of csp transcripts. Their roles in S. aureus cold shock gene expression have been discussed elaborately. (© 2009 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) [source]

Comparative analysis of changes in gene expression due to RNA melting activities of translation initiation factor IF1 and a cold shock protein of the CspA family

GENES TO CELLS, Issue 11 2009
Sangita Phadtare
In Escherichia coli, temperature downshift elicits cold shock response, which is characterized by induction of cold shock proteins. CspA, the major cold shock protein of E. coli, helps cells to acclimatize to low temperature by melting the secondary structures in nucleic acids and acting as a transcription antiterminator. CspA and its homologues contain the cold shock domain and belong to the oligomer binding protein family, which also includes S1 domain proteins such as IF1. Structural similarity between IF1 and CspA homologues suggested a functional overlap between these proteins. Indeed IF1 can melt secondary structures in RNA and acts as transcription antiterminator in vivo and in vitro. Here, we show that in spite of having these critical activities, IF1 does not complement cold-sensitivity of a csp quadruple deletion strain. DNA microarray analysis shows that overproduction of IF1 and Csp leads to changes in expression of different sets of genes. Importantly, several genes which were previously shown to require Csp proteins for their expression at low temperature did not respond to IF1. Moreover, in vitro, we show that a transcription terminator responsive to Csp does not respond to IF1. Our results suggest that Csp proteins and IF1 have different sets of target genes as they may be suppressing the function of different types of transcription termination elements in specific genes. [source]

Acquisition of double-stranded DNA-binding ability in a hybrid protein between Escherichia coli CspA and the cold shock domain of human YB-1

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 3 2000
Nan Wang
Escherichia coli CspA, a major cold shock protein, is dramatically induced upon temperature downshift. As it binds co-operatively to single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and RNA without apparent sequence specificity, it has been proposed that CspA acts as an RNA chaperone to facilitate transcription and translation at low temperature. CspA consists of a five-stranded ,-barrel structure containing two RNA-binding motifs, RNP1 and RNP2. Eukaryotic Y-box proteins, such as human YB-1, are a family of nucleic acid-binding proteins that share a region of high homology with CspA (43% identity), termed the cold shock domain (CSD). Their cellular functions are very diverse and are associated with growth-related processes. Here, we replaced the six-residue loop region of CspA between the ,3 and ,4 strands with the corresponding region of the CSD of human YB-1 protein. The resulting hybrid protein became capable of binding to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) in addition to ssDNA and RNA. The dsDNA-binding ability of an RNP1 point mutant (F20L) of the hybrid was almost unchanged. On the other hand, the dsDNA-binding ability of the hybrid protein was abolished in high salt concentrations in contrast to its ssDNA-binding ability. These results indicate that the loop region between the ,3 and ,4 strands of Y-box proteins, which is a little longer and more basic than that of CspA, plays an important role in their binding to dsDNA. [source]

Comparative analysis of changes in gene expression due to RNA melting activities of translation initiation factor IF1 and a cold shock protein of the CspA family

GENES TO CELLS, Issue 11 2009
Sangita Phadtare
In Escherichia coli, temperature downshift elicits cold shock response, which is characterized by induction of cold shock proteins. CspA, the major cold shock protein of E. coli, helps cells to acclimatize to low temperature by melting the secondary structures in nucleic acids and acting as a transcription antiterminator. CspA and its homologues contain the cold shock domain and belong to the oligomer binding protein family, which also includes S1 domain proteins such as IF1. Structural similarity between IF1 and CspA homologues suggested a functional overlap between these proteins. Indeed IF1 can melt secondary structures in RNA and acts as transcription antiterminator in vivo and in vitro. Here, we show that in spite of having these critical activities, IF1 does not complement cold-sensitivity of a csp quadruple deletion strain. DNA microarray analysis shows that overproduction of IF1 and Csp leads to changes in expression of different sets of genes. Importantly, several genes which were previously shown to require Csp proteins for their expression at low temperature did not respond to IF1. Moreover, in vitro, we show that a transcription terminator responsive to Csp does not respond to IF1. Our results suggest that Csp proteins and IF1 have different sets of target genes as they may be suppressing the function of different types of transcription termination elements in specific genes. [source]