The carbon storage regulator (Csr) system exerts a nutrient-specific control over central metabolism in Escherichia coli strain nissle 1917

Revelles , Olga
        INRA
        , Toulouse .
         UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés; Millard , Pierre
        INRA
        , Toulouse .
         UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés; Nougayrede , Jean-Philippe
        INRA
        , TOULOUSE .
         USC 1360 Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan; Dobrindt , Ulrich
        . Institute of Hygiene; Oswald , Eric
        INRA
        , TOULOUSE .
         USC 1360 Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan; Létisse , Fabien
        INRA
        , Toulouse .
         UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés; Portais , Jean-Charles
        INRA
        , Toulouse .
         UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés

The carbon storage regulator (Csr) system exerts a nutrient-specific control over central metabolism in Escherichia coli strain nissle 1917

2013

Revelles , Olga (INRA , Toulouse (France). UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés) | Millard , Pierre (INRA , Toulouse (France). UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés) | Nougayrede , Jean-Philippe (INRA , TOULOUSE (France). USC 1360 Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan) | Dobrindt , Ulrich (University of Münster, Münster(Allemagne). Institute of Hygiene) | Oswald , Eric (INRA , TOULOUSE (France). USC 1360 Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan) | Létisse , Fabien (INRA , Toulouse (France). UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés) | Portais , Jean-Charles (INRA , Toulouse (France). UMR 0792 Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés)

The role of the post-transcriptional carbon storage regulator (Csr) system in nutrient utilization and in the control of the central metabolism in E. coli reference commensal strain Nissle 1917 was investigated. Analysis of the growth capabilities of mutants altered for various components of the Csr system (csrA51, csrB, csrC and csrD mutations) showed that only the protein CsrA - the key component of the system - exerts a marked role in carbon nutrition. Attenuation of CsrA activity in the csrA51 mutant affects the growth efficiency on a broad range of physiologically relevant carbon sources, including compounds utilized by the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. Detailed investigations of the metabolomes and fluxomes of mutants and wild-type cells grown on carbon sources representative of glycolysis and of the ED pathway (glucose and gluconate, respectively), revealed significant re-adjusting of central carbon metabolism for both compounds in the csrA51 mutant. However, the metabolic re-adjusting observed on gluconate was strikingly different from that observed on glucose, indicating a nutrient-specific control of metabolism by the Csr system.

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