Indole-3-acetic acid regulates the central metabolic pathways in Escherichia coli
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Microbiology
- Vol. 152 (8), 2421-2431
- https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28765-0
Abstract
The physiological changes induced by indoleacetic acid (IAA) treatment were investigated in the totally sequencedEscherichia coliK-12 MG1655. DNA macroarrays were used to measure the mRNA levels for all the 4290E. coliprotein-coding genes; 50 genes (1.1 %) exhibited significantly different expression profiles. In particular, genes involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the glyoxylate shunt and amino acid biosynthesis (leucine, isoleucine, valine and proline) were up-regulated, whereas the fermentativeadhEgene was down-regulated. To confirm the indications obtained from the macroarray analysis the activity of 34 enzymes involved in central metabolism was measured; this showed an activation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle and the glyoxylate shunt. The malic enzyme, involved in the production of pyruvate, and pyruvate dehydrogenase, required for the channelling of pyruvate into acetyl-CoA, were also induced in IAA-treated cells. Moreover, it was shown that the enhanced production of acetyl-CoA and the decrease of NADH/NAD+ratio are connected with the molecular process of the IAA response. The results demonstrate that IAA treatment is a stimulus capable of inducing changes in gene expression, enzyme activity and metabolite level involved in central metabolic pathways inE. coli.Keywords
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