{"author":[{"full_name":"Nikolic, Nela","id":"42D9CABC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-9068-6090","first_name":"Nela","last_name":"Nikolic"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5396-4346","full_name":"Bergmiller, Tobias","id":"2C471CFA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Tobias","last_name":"Bergmiller"},{"last_name":"Vandervelde","full_name":"Vandervelde, Alexandra","first_name":"Alexandra"},{"full_name":"Albanese, Tanino","first_name":"Tanino","last_name":"Albanese"},{"full_name":"Gelens, Lendert","first_name":"Lendert","last_name":"Gelens"},{"last_name":"Moll","first_name":"Isabella","full_name":"Moll, Isabella"}],"publisher":"Oxford University Press","file":[{"checksum":"3ff4f545c27e11a4cd20ccb30778793e","creator":"system","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2018-12-12T10:15:30Z","file_name":"IST-2018-971-v1+1_2018_Nikoloc_Autoregulation_of.pdf","relation":"main_file","date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:46:27Z","file_size":5027978,"file_id":"5151"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","related_material":{"record":[{"relation":"popular_science","status":"public","id":"5569"}]},"month":"04","publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","date_published":"2018-04-06T00:00:00Z","article_processing_charge":"Yes (in subscription journal)","status":"public","day":"06","_id":"438","publication":"Nucleic Acids Research","scopus_import":"1","ddc":["576"],"date_created":"2018-12-11T11:46:29Z","page":"2918-2931","external_id":{"isi":["000429009500021"]},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"issue":"6","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The MazF toxin sequence-specifically cleaves single-stranded RNA upon various stressful conditions, and it is activated as a part of the mazEF toxin–antitoxin module in Escherichia coli. Although autoregulation of mazEF expression through the MazE antitoxin-dependent transcriptional repression has been biochemically characterized, less is known about post-transcriptional autoregulation, as well as how both of these autoregulatory features affect growth of single cells during conditions that promote MazF production. Here, we demonstrate post-transcriptional autoregulation of mazF expression dynamics by MazF cleaving its own transcript. Single-cell analyses of bacterial populations during ectopic MazF production indicated that two-level autoregulation of mazEF expression influences cell-to-cell growth rate heterogeneity. The increase in growth rate heterogeneity is governed by the MazE antitoxin, and tuned by the MazF-dependent mazF mRNA cleavage. Also, both autoregulatory features grant rapid exit from the stress caused by mazF overexpression. Time-lapse microscopy revealed that MazF-mediated cleavage of mazF mRNA leads to increased temporal variability in length of individual cells during ectopic mazF overexpression, as explained by a stochastic model indicating that mazEF mRNA cleavage underlies temporal fluctuations in MazF levels during stress."}],"quality_controlled":"1","department":[{"_id":"CaGu"}],"isi":1,"year":"2018","file_date_updated":"2020-07-14T12:46:27Z","volume":46,"user_id":"c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1","oa":1,"tmp":{"image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"date_updated":"2024-02-21T13:44:45Z","citation":{"mla":"Nikolic, Nela, et al. “Autoregulation of MazEF Expression Underlies Growth Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations.” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 46, no. 6, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 2918–31, doi:10.1093/nar/gky079.","chicago":"Nikolic, Nela, Tobias Bergmiller, Alexandra Vandervelde, Tanino Albanese, Lendert Gelens, and Isabella Moll. “Autoregulation of MazEF Expression Underlies Growth Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations.” Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky079.","ista":"Nikolic N, Bergmiller T, Vandervelde A, Albanese T, Gelens L, Moll I. 2018. Autoregulation of mazEF expression underlies growth heterogeneity in bacterial populations. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(6), 2918–2931.","short":"N. Nikolic, T. Bergmiller, A. Vandervelde, T. Albanese, L. Gelens, I. Moll, Nucleic Acids Research 46 (2018) 2918–2931.","ieee":"N. Nikolic, T. Bergmiller, A. Vandervelde, T. Albanese, L. Gelens, and I. Moll, “Autoregulation of mazEF expression underlies growth heterogeneity in bacterial populations,” Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 46, no. 6. Oxford University Press, pp. 2918–2931, 2018.","ama":"Nikolic N, Bergmiller T, Vandervelde A, Albanese T, Gelens L, Moll I. Autoregulation of mazEF expression underlies growth heterogeneity in bacterial populations. Nucleic Acids Research. 2018;46(6):2918-2931. doi:10.1093/nar/gky079","apa":"Nikolic, N., Bergmiller, T., Vandervelde, A., Albanese, T., Gelens, L., & Moll, I. (2018). Autoregulation of mazEF expression underlies growth heterogeneity in bacterial populations. Nucleic Acids Research. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky079"},"doi":"10.1093/nar/gky079","pubrep_id":"971","project":[{"name":"FWF Open Access Fund","call_identifier":"FWF","_id":"3AC91DDA-15DF-11EA-824D-93A3E7B544D1"}],"title":"Autoregulation of mazEF expression underlies growth heterogeneity in bacterial populations","type":"journal_article","intvolume":" 46"}