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Abstract

HU is a non-sequence-specific DNA-binding protein and one of the most abundant nucleoid-associated proteins in the bacterial cell. Like , the genome of is predicted to encode both the HUα (PG1258) and the HUβ (PG0121) subunit. We have previously reported that PG0121 encodes a non-specific DNA-binding protein and that PG0121 is co-transcribed with the K-antigen capsule synthesis operon. We also reported that deletion of PG0121 resulted in downregulation of capsule operon expression and produced a strain that is phenotypically deficient in surface polysaccharide production. Here, we show through complementation experiments in an MG1655 double mutant strain that PG0121 encodes a functional HU homologue. Microarray and quantitative RT-PCR analysis were used to further investigate global transcriptional regulation by HUβ using comparative expression profiling of the PG0121 (HUβ) mutant strain to the parent strain, W83. Our analysis determined that expression of genes encoding proteins involved in a variety of biological functions, including iron acquisition, cell division and translation, as well as a number of predicted nucleoid associated proteins were altered in the PG0121 mutant. Phenotypic and quantitative real-time-PCR (qRT-PCR) analyses determined that under iron-limiting growth conditions, cell division and viability were defective in the PG0121 mutant. Collectively, our studies show that PG0121 does indeed encode a functional HU homologue, and HUβ has global regulatory functions in ; it affects not only production of capsular polysaccharides but also expression of genes involved in basic functions, such as cell wall synthesis, cell division and iron uptake.

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