期刊
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING
卷 108, 期 3, 页码 666-675出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22966
关键词
systems biology; synthetic biology; membrane fluidity; butanol; isobutanol; biofuel; biodiesel; stress response
资金
- Naval Research
- Packard Fellowship Program
- National Science Foundation [BES-0547637]
- Office of Naval Research
- National Institutes of Health [R01 AI067699]
Two-component systems enable bacteria to sense changes in their environment and adjust gene expression in response. Multiple two-component systems could function as a combinatorial sensor to discriminate environmental conditions. A combinatorial sensor is composed of a set of sensors that are non-specifically activated to different magnitudes by many stimuli, such that their collective activity pattern defines the signal. Using promoter reporters and flow cytometry, we measured the response of three two-component systems in Escherichia coli that have been previously reported to respond to many environmental stimuli (EnvZ/OmpR, CpxA/CpxR, and RcsC/RcsD/RcsB). A chemical library was screened for the ability to activate the sensors and 13 inducers were identified that produce different patterns of sensor activity. The activities of the three systems are uncorrelated with each other and the osmolarity of the inducing media. Five of the seven possible non-trivial patterns generated by three sensors are observed. This data demonstrate one mechanism by which bacteria are able to use a limited set of sensors to identify a diverse set of compounds and environmental conditions. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2011;108: 666-675. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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