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Quantitative contribution of the spacer length in the supercoiling-sensitivity of bacterial promoters

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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 50, 期 13, 页码 7287-7297

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac579

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  1. French Research Ministry
  2. Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-18-CE45-0006-01]
  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  4. Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1

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DNA supercoiling acts as a global transcriptional regulator in bacteria. A thermodynamic model based on DNA elasticity is developed to predict the relative activation of promoters with different spacer lengths. The model is validated through in vitro and in vivo expression assays and genome-scale analysis in Escherichia coli, demonstrating the significant effect of spacer length on genomic expression after superhelical variations.
DNA supercoiling acts as a global transcriptional regulator in bacteria, but the promoter sequence or structural determinants controlling its effect remain unclear. It was previously proposed to modulate the torsional angle between the -10 and -35 hexamers, and thereby regulate the formation of the closed-complex depending on the length of the 'spacer' between them. Here, we develop a thermodynamic model of this notion based on DNA elasticity, providing quantitative and parameter-free predictions of the relative activation of promoters containing a short versus long spacer when the DNA supercoiling level is varied. The model is tested through an analysis of in vitro and in vivo expression assays of mutant promoters with variable spacer lengths, confirming its accuracy for spacers ranging from 15 to 19 nucleotides, except those of 16 nucleotides where other regulatory mechanisms likely overcome the effect of this specific step. An analysis at the whole-genome scale in Escherichia coli then demonstrates a significant effect of the spacer length on the genomic expression after transient or inheritable superhelical variations, validating the model's predictions. Altogether, this study shows an example of mechanical constraints associated to promoter binding by RNA Polymerase underpinning a basal and global regulatory mechanism.

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