High magnetic field enhances stationary phase-specific transcription activity of Escherichia coli

Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 383-387

  Tsuchiya, Kohji ^a   Okuno, Kazumasa ^a   Ano, Takashi ^a   Tanaka, Kan ^b   Takahashi, Hideo ^b   Shoda, Makoto ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

factor; Escherichia coli; Inhomogeneous high magnetic field; RNA polymerase; rpoS

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

PHASE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVITY; RNA POLYMERASE; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET BIOSYSTEM;

GROWTH KINETICS;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LAC OPERON; MAGNETICS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI B;

EID: 0032953449     PISSN: 03024598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-4598(99)00023-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Thomas A., Morris P.G. The effects of NMR exposure on living organisms: I. A microbialassay. Br. J. Radiol. 7:1981;615-621.
2. Malko J.A., Constantinidis I., Dillehay D., Fajman W.A. Search for influence of 1.5 tesla magnetic field on growth of yeast cells. Bioelectromagnetics. 15:1994;495-501.
3. Mahdi A., Gowland P.A., Mansfield P., Coupland R.E., Lloyd R.G. The effects of static 3.0 T and 0.5 T magnetic fields and the echo-planar imaging experiment at 0.5 T on E. coli. Br. J. Radiol. 67:1994;983-987.
4. Ueno S., Iwasaka M. Properties of diamagnetic fluid in high gradient magnetic field. J. Appl. Phys. 75:1994;7177-7179.
5. Hirota N., Homma T., Sugawara H., Kitazawa K., Iwasaka M., Ueno S., Yokoi H., Kakudate Y., Fujiwara S., Kawamura M. Rise and fall of surface level of water solution under high magnetic field. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 34:1995;991-993.
6. Tsuchiya K., Nakamura K., Okuno K., Ano T., Shoda M. Effect of homogeneous and inhomogeneous high magnetic fields on the growth of Escherichia coli. J. Ferment. Bioeng. 81:1996;344-347.
7. Nakamura K., Okuno K., Ano T., Shoda M. Effect of high magnetic field on the growth of Bacillus subtilis measured in a newly developed developed superconducting magnet biosystem. Bioelectrochem. Bioenerg. 43:1997;123-128.
8. Okuda K., Saito K., Kamikado T., Ito S., Matsumoto K., Okuno K., Tsuhiya K., Ano T., Shoda M. New 7 T superconducting magnet system for bacterial cultivation. Cryogenics. 35:1995;41-47.
9. Tanaka K., Handel K., Loewen P.C., Takahashi H. Identification and analysis of the rpoS dependent promotor of katE, encoding catalase HPII in Escherichia coli. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1352:1997;161-166.
10. Loewen P.C., Tiggs B.L. Genetic mapping of katF, a locus that with katE affects the synthesis of a second catalase species in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 160:1984;668-675.
11. Shiba T., Tsutsumi K., Yano H., Ihara Y., Kameda A., Tanaka K., Takahashi H., Munekata M., Rao N.N., Kornberg A. Inorganic polyphosphate and the induction of rpoS expression. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94:1997;11210-11215.
12. s. J. Bacteriol. 173:1991;4474-4481.
13. Wang X., de Boer P.A., Rothfield L.I. A factor that positively regulates cell division by activating transcription of the major cluster of essential cell division genes of Escherichia coli. EMBO J. 10:1991;3363-3372.
14. J.H. Miller, Experiments in Molecular Genetics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1972.
15. Tanaka K., Takahashi H. Cloning and analysis of the gene (rpoDA) for the principle-factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1089:1991;113-119.
16. Mulvey M.R., Switala J., Borys A., Loewen P.C. Regulations of transcription of katE and katF in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 172:1990;6713-6720.
17. Stinikov D.M., Schineller J.B., Baldwin T.O. Control of cell division in Escherichia coli: regulation of transcription of ftsQA involves both rpoS and SdiA-mediated autoinduction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93:1996;336-341.
18. Aldea M., Garrido T., Hernandez-Chico C., Vicente M., Kushner S.R. Induction of a growth-phase-dependent promoter triggers transcription of bolA, an Escherichia coli morphogene. EMBO J. 8:1989;3923-3931.
19. 38, is a second principal σ factor of RNA polymerase in stationary-phase Escherichia coli. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90:1993;3511-3515.
20. Sak B.D., Eisenstark A., Touati D. Exonuclease III and the hydroperoxidase II in Escherichia coli are both regulated by the katF product. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 86:1989;3271-3275.
21. Flärdh K., Garrid T., Vicente M. Contribution of individual promoters in the ddlB-ftsZ region to the transcription of the essential cell-division gene in Escherichia coli. Mol. Microbiol. 24:1997;927-936.
22. Maret G., Schickfus M.V., Maye A., Dransfeld K. Orientation of nucleic acids in high magnetic fields. Phys. Rev. Lett. 35:1975;397-400.
23. Speyer J.B., Sripada P.K., Das Gupta S.K., Shipley G.C., Griffin R.G. Magnetic orientation of sphingomyelin-lecithin bilayers. J. Biophys. Soc. 51:1987;687-691.