Composition of the outgrowth medium modulates wake-up kinetics and ampicillin sensitivity of stringent and relaxed Escherichia coli
Varik, Vallo ; Oliveira, Sofia Raquel Alves ; Hauryliuk, Vasili LU
and Tenson, Tanel
(2016)
In Scientific Reports
6.
- Abstract
The transition of Escherichia coli from the exponential into the stationary phase of growth induces the stringent response, which is mediated by the rapid accumulation of the alarmone nucleotide (p)ppGpp produced by the enzyme RelA. The significance of RelA's functionality during the transition in the opposite direction, i.e. from the stationary phase into new exponential growth, is less well understood. Here we show that the relaxed strain, i.e. lacking the relA gene, displays a relative delay in regrowth during the new exponential growth phase in comparison with the isogenic wild type strain. The severity of the effect is a function of both the carbon source and amino acid composition of the outgrowth media. As a result, the loss of... (More)
The transition of Escherichia coli from the exponential into the stationary phase of growth induces the stringent response, which is mediated by the rapid accumulation of the alarmone nucleotide (p)ppGpp produced by the enzyme RelA. The significance of RelA's functionality during the transition in the opposite direction, i.e. from the stationary phase into new exponential growth, is less well understood. Here we show that the relaxed strain, i.e. lacking the relA gene, displays a relative delay in regrowth during the new exponential growth phase in comparison with the isogenic wild type strain. The severity of the effect is a function of both the carbon source and amino acid composition of the outgrowth media. As a result, the loss of RelA functionality increases E. coli tolerance to the bactericidal antibiotic ampicillin during growth resumption in fresh media in a medium-specific way. Taken together, our data underscore the crucial role of medium composition and growth conditions for studies of the role of individual genes and regulatory networks in bacterial phenotypic tolerance to antibiotics.
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- author
- Varik, Vallo
; Oliveira, Sofia Raquel Alves
; Hauryliuk, Vasili
LU
and Tenson, Tanel
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Scientific Reports
- volume
- 6
- article number
- 22308
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- external identifiers
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- pmid:26923949
- scopus:84978164829
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- DOI
- 10.1038/srep22308
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Funding Information: We are grateful to Gemma Atkinson and Mike Cashel for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the by grant IUT2-22 from the Estonian Research Council (TT); European Regional Development Fund through the Centre of Excellence in Chemical Biology (VH and TT); Estonian Science Foundation (grants ETF9012 and PUT37 to VH); Umeå University, the Swedish Research council Vetenskapsrådet (grant 2013-4680), Kempe and Ragnar Söderberg foundations (VH). Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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