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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 73, 期 2, 页码 240-252出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06766.x
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- University Paris-Sud 11
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique [CEA LRC42V]
- Electricite de France [RB2007-11]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-07-BLAN-0106]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-07-BLAN-0106] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
The nucleoid of radioresistant bacteria, including D. radiodurans, adopts a highly condensed structure that remains unaltered after exposure to high doses of irradiation. This structure may contribute to radioresistance by preventing the dispersion of DNA fragments generated by irradiation. In this report, we focused our study on the role of HU protein, a nucleoid-associated protein referred to as a histone-like protein, in the nucleoid compaction of D. radiodurans. We demonstrate, using a new system allowing conditional gene expression, that HU is essential for viability in D. radiodurans. Using a tagged HU protein and immunofluorescence microscopy, we show that HU protein localizes all over the nucleoid and that when HU is expressed from a thermosensitive plasmid, its progressive depletion at the nonpermissive temperature generates decondensation of DNA before fractionation of the nucleoid into several entities and subsequent cell lysis. We also tested the effect of the absence of Dps, a protein also involved in nucleoid structure. In contrast to the drastic effect of HU depletion, no change in nucleoid morphology and cell viability was observed in dps mutants compared with the wild-type, reinforcing the major role of HU in nucleoid organization and DNA compaction in D. radiodurans.
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