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Influence of uvrA, recJ and recN gene mutations on nucleoid reorganization in UV-treated Escherichia coli cells.

FEMS Microbiol. Lett.2018 Jun 01;365(11)
Carlos Felipe Estévez Castro 1 , Jorge Humberto Serment-Guerrero 2 , Jorge Luis Fuentes 1
Carlos Felipe Estévez Castro 1 , Jorge Humberto Serment-Guerrero 2 , Jorge Luis Fuentes 1

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Author information
  • 1 Laboratorio de Microbiología y Mutagénesis Ambiental, Grupo de Investigación en Microbiología y Genética, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga 680002, Colombia.
  • 2 Departamento de Biología, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, México DF 52750, México.

摘要


Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation blocks DNA replication and arrests cellular division in Escherichia coli. Restoration of chromosome replication involves nucleoid reorganization, which involves the participation of the recombination-catalyzing proteins RecA, RecO, RecR and RecN. In this work, we evaluated the influence of recN, uvrA and recJ gene mutations on post-irradiation nucleoid reorganization. We used isogenic E. coli strains that are defective for these genes to study post-irradiation kinetics of the nucleoid shape fractions using fluorescence microscopy. The results showed that in the wild-type strain, post-irradiation nucleoid reorganization occurs, which restores the nucleoid shape fractions in the cells to those observed prior to irradiation. First, the nucleoid condenses into the central area of the irradiated cell. Second, the nucleoid disperses along the cell. Third, the cell enters the chromosome replicative phase and cytokinesis. Escherichia coli cells with a recN mutation did not exhibit increased nucleoid condensation, but chromosome replication and cytokinesis occurred. In the uvrA and recJ strains, the condensation step was delayed compared to the wild-type strain, and chromosome replication and cytokinesis did not occur. The results are discussed with an emphasis on the functions of RecN, UvrA and RecJ in nucleoid reorganization in UV-irradiated E. coli cells.