PodJ(S), sequestered to the progeny swarmer cell, is subsequently released from the polar membrane by the membrane metalloprotease MmpA for degradation during the swarmer-to-stalked cell transition. Many recent studies have revealed exquisite subcellular localization of proteins, DNA, and other molecules within bacterial cells, giving credence to the concept of prokaryotic anatomy. Our long-term goal is to leverage genome and epigenome engineering as new avenues for understanding of genotype-disease relationship and for developing gene . Lee, H. D., Lord, S. J., Iwanaga, S., Zhan, K., Xie, H., Williams, J. C., Wang, H., Bowman, G. R., Goley, E. D., Shapiro, L., Twieg, R. J., Rao, J., Moerner, W. E. An essential transcription factor, SciP, enhances robustness of Caulobacter cell cycle regulation. View details for Web of Science ID 000168535000012, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC95206, View details for Web of Science ID 000168824801666. However, 27 GANTC sites remained unmethylated throughout the cell cycle, suggesting that these protected sites could participate in epigenetic regulatory functions. View details for Web of Science ID A1986E228900007. Only one of the two chromosomes in the asymmetric Caulobacter predivisional cell initiates replication in the progeny cells. At the non-permissive temperature, one such mutant, LS439, could not initiate new rounds of DNA replication and arrested primarily as cells with two completed chromosomes Extended incubation at the restrictive temperature resulted in filament formation. In spite of their small size, bacteria have a remarkably complex internal organization and external architecture. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0507708102, View details for Web of Science ID 000234174300065, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC1317941. Repositioning these elements resulted in rotations of the chromosome that changed the subcellular positions of most genes. Work in Caulobacter crescentus shows that essential and nonessential proteins localize to discrete positions in the cell as a function of cell-cycle progression. View details for Web of Science ID A1994NX67800011. Chemical Engineering Here we demonstrate the applicability of one such biosensor, the fluorescent protein roGFP2, for cryo-CLEM experiments. Ricci, D. P., Melfi, M. D., Lasker, K., Dill, D. L., McAdams, H. H., Shapiro, L. An intracellular compass spatially coordinates cell cycle modules in Caulobacter crescentus. Therefore, this structurally dynamic S-layer responds to environmental conditions as an ion sensor and protects Caulobacter from calcium deficiency stress, a unique mechanism of bacterial adaptation. This polarization is orchestrated by complex and dynamic changes in the subcellular localization of signal transduction and cytoskeleton proteins as well as of specific regions of the chromosome. Identification and Demonstration of roGFP2 as an Environmental Sensor for Cryogenic Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy. View details for Web of Science ID A1992KB97700015. These studies demonstrated that EYFP is a useful emitter for in vivo super-resolution imaging. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0805258105, View details for Web of Science ID 000258560700056, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC2516238. View details for Web of Science ID 000246369400027. Genes involved in the biogenesis of the flagellum in Caulobacter crescentus are expressed in a temporal order and are controlled by a trans-acting regulatory hierarchy. Menu. Caulobacter crescentus assembles many of its cellular machines at distinct times and locations during the cell cycle. Transcriptional regulatory circuits provide only a fraction of the signaling pathways and regulatory mechanisms that control the bacterial cell cycle. We seek to understand the control of gene expression. We predict that with any phenotype independent of energy production, however, pH-sensitive mutants will be recovered only in surface elements. The first generation of acoustic reporter genes proved a concept but were insensitive, burdensome and impossible to image continuously. Recent advances in bacterial cell biology have revealed unanticipated structural and functional complexity, reminiscent of eukaryotic cells. A major direction in the lab is to understand how such long-range interactions occur, how they achieve target specificity, and how they may be reprogrammed by alterations to the genome sequence. An increased level of tryptophan allosterically activates the adenylyltransferase activity of GlnE that, in turn, deactivates glutamine synthetase GlnA by adenylylation. Dr. Oscar Beitia is a board/CAQ certified neuroradiologist and informatician currently working as a researcher in Dr. Shapiro's laboratory. Strikingly, cells lacking DipM also showed OM blebbing at the division site, at cell poles and along the cell body. Surface layers (S-layers) are paracrystalline, proteinaceous structures found in most archaea and many bacteria. Three global regulatory proteins cycle out of phase with one another and drive cell cycle progression by directly controlling the expression of 200 cell-cycle-regulated genes. We show that Caulobacter crescentus makes use of and requires a dedicated mechanism to initiate chromosome segregation. Thus, the hook operon upstream region contains a sequence element that responds to a temporally controlled trans-acting factor(s), and in concert with a second sequence element causes the timed activation of transcription. I conduct both basic and translational research on cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors. Structural studies on the capsid of Caulobacter crescentus bacteriophage phiCbK. Caulobacter crescentus initiates a single round of DNA replication during each cell cycle. These activities are in a multienzyme complex in Escherichia coli, but a similar complex was not observed in C. crescentus. These plasmids were mated into a wild-type strain and into strains containing various Tn5 insertion and deletion mutations and a temperature-sensitive mutation in the flaYE region. Bacteria which appear not to possess extrachromosomal elements, e.g., Caulobacter crescentus, did not show homology with any insertion sequences tested. A mutant of Caulobacter crescentus has been isolated which has an auxotrophic requirement for unsaturated fatty acids or biotin for growth on medium containing glucose as the carbon source. SsrA, or tmRNA, is a small RNA found in all bacteria that intervenes in selected translation reactions to target the nascent polypeptide for rapid proteolysis. Using genetic screens and cellular approaches in zebrafish, we aim to discover new genes with essential functions in glial cells, define new animal models of important disorders in humans, and provide new avenues toward therapies for injury and disease of the nervous system. We have also partially purified the Caulobacter homolog of IHF and demonstrate that it can facilitate in vitro integrase-mediated lambda recombination. Caulobacter crescentus has one of the simplest known developmental programs that exhibits both temporal and spatial organization. Moreover, we show that GapR is maintained as a tetramer upon its dissociation from DNA and that tetrameric GapR is capable of binding DNA molecules in vitro Analysis of protein chimeras revealed that two helices of GapR are functionally conserved in H-NS, demonstrating that two evolutionarily distant NAPs with distinct mechanisms of action utilize conserved structural elements to oligomerize and bind DNA.IMPORTANCE Bacteria organize their genetic material in a structure called the nucleoid, which needs to be compact to fit inside the cell and, at the same time, dynamic to allow high rates of replication and transcription. The maturation of new pole to old pole appears to be a common theme as well. Stanford offers a wide range of routine and esoteric testing across all areas of Clinical and Molecular Pathology. A simple antibody-based bioassay using fluorescently tagged proteins demonstrates the encoding strategy in biologically relevant media. The transcript synthesized in vitro was shown to be cleaved by C. crescentus RNase III and to release the transfer RNA genes from the downstream 16 S/23 S intergenic spacer region. Revertant strains had wild-type levels of glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and normal rates of phospholipid and macromolecular synthesis. Hodgson, D., Shaw, P., OCONNELL, M., Henry, S., Shapiro, L. PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN RNA PROCESSING ENZYME FROM CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS, DIFFERENTIAL TEMPLATE RECOGNITION BY THE CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS AND THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI RNA-POLYMERASES, METHYLATION INVOLVED IN CHEMOTAXIS IS REGULATED DURING CAULOBACTER DIFFERENTIATION. This point mutation allows normal flagellin synthesis, stalk formation, equatorial cell division, and rate of growth. These results suggest that sigma 54 abundance responds to cell cycle cues and is involved in the global timing of the central events of Caulobacter development, whereas the transcriptional activators of sigma 54-dependent promoters are responsible for the refined control of the expression of individual or small groups of genes required for each specific event. MreB selectively interacts, directly or indirectly, with origin-proximal regions of the chromosome, arguing that the origin-proximal region segregates via an MreB-dependent mechanism not used by the rest of the chromosome. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Despite the essential role of the CckA histidine kinase in the control of cell cycle events, the factors that signal its activation at a specific time in the cell cycle have remained elusive. The 0.22 value of the scaling exponent for short DNA segments is consistent with theoretical predictions for a branched DNA polymer structure. Genetics 197:405-420. The expression of these class II genes initiates assembly of the flagellum just prior to activation of the ccrM promoter in the predivisional cell. rRNA genes of Caulobacter crescentus CB13 were isolated and shown to be present in two gene clusters in the genome. Although Drs. The C-terminal crystallization domain forms the physiological 2-dimensional (2D) crystal lattice, but full-length protein crystallizes multiple orders of magnitude faster due to the N-terminal nucleation domain. Homology between the IS elements and various genomes was determined by hybridizing labeled DNA containing IS1, IS2, and IS5 sequences to Southern blots of chromosomal DNA cleaved with restriction endonucleases. Because the Lon protease is present throughout the cell cycle, it is likely that the level of CcrM in the cell is controlled by a dynamic balance between temporally varied transcription and constitutive degradation. Fluorescence microscopy is a sensitive tool for this purpose. 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PodJ(S), sequestered to the progeny swarmer cell, is subsequently released from the polar membrane by the membrane metalloprotease MmpA for degradation during the swarmer-to-stalked cell transition. Many recent studies have revealed exquisite subcellular localization of proteins, DNA, and other molecules within bacterial cells, giving credence to the concept of prokaryotic anatomy. Our long-term goal is to leverage genome and epigenome engineering as new avenues for understanding of genotype-disease relationship and for developing gene . Lee, H. D., Lord, S. J., Iwanaga, S., Zhan, K., Xie, H., Williams, J. C., Wang, H., Bowman, G. R., Goley, E. D., Shapiro, L., Twieg, R. J., Rao, J., Moerner, W. E. An essential transcription factor, SciP, enhances robustness of Caulobacter cell cycle regulation. View details for Web of Science ID 000168535000012, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC95206, View details for Web of Science ID 000168824801666. However, 27 GANTC sites remained unmethylated throughout the cell cycle, suggesting that these protected sites could participate in epigenetic regulatory functions. View details for Web of Science ID A1986E228900007. Only one of the two chromosomes in the asymmetric Caulobacter predivisional cell initiates replication in the progeny cells. At the non-permissive temperature, one such mutant, LS439, could not initiate new rounds of DNA replication and arrested primarily as cells with two completed chromosomes Extended incubation at the restrictive temperature resulted in filament formation. In spite of their small size, bacteria have a remarkably complex internal organization and external architecture. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0507708102, View details for Web of Science ID 000234174300065, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC1317941. Repositioning these elements resulted in rotations of the chromosome that changed the subcellular positions of most genes. Work in Caulobacter crescentus shows that essential and nonessential proteins localize to discrete positions in the cell as a function of cell-cycle progression. View details for Web of Science ID A1994NX67800011. Chemical Engineering Here we demonstrate the applicability of one such biosensor, the fluorescent protein roGFP2, for cryo-CLEM experiments. Ricci, D. P., Melfi, M. D., Lasker, K., Dill, D. L., McAdams, H. H., Shapiro, L. An intracellular compass spatially coordinates cell cycle modules in Caulobacter crescentus. Therefore, this structurally dynamic S-layer responds to environmental conditions as an ion sensor and protects Caulobacter from calcium deficiency stress, a unique mechanism of bacterial adaptation. This polarization is orchestrated by complex and dynamic changes in the subcellular localization of signal transduction and cytoskeleton proteins as well as of specific regions of the chromosome. Identification and Demonstration of roGFP2 as an Environmental Sensor for Cryogenic Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy. View details for Web of Science ID A1992KB97700015. These studies demonstrated that EYFP is a useful emitter for in vivo super-resolution imaging. View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0805258105, View details for Web of Science ID 000258560700056, View details for PubMedCentralID PMC2516238. View details for Web of Science ID 000246369400027. Genes involved in the biogenesis of the flagellum in Caulobacter crescentus are expressed in a temporal order and are controlled by a trans-acting regulatory hierarchy. Menu. Caulobacter crescentus assembles many of its cellular machines at distinct times and locations during the cell cycle. Transcriptional regulatory circuits provide only a fraction of the signaling pathways and regulatory mechanisms that control the bacterial cell cycle. We seek to understand the control of gene expression. We predict that with any phenotype independent of energy production, however, pH-sensitive mutants will be recovered only in surface elements. The first generation of acoustic reporter genes proved a concept but were insensitive, burdensome and impossible to image continuously. Recent advances in bacterial cell biology have revealed unanticipated structural and functional complexity, reminiscent of eukaryotic cells. A major direction in the lab is to understand how such long-range interactions occur, how they achieve target specificity, and how they may be reprogrammed by alterations to the genome sequence. An increased level of tryptophan allosterically activates the adenylyltransferase activity of GlnE that, in turn, deactivates glutamine synthetase GlnA by adenylylation. Dr. Oscar Beitia is a board/CAQ certified neuroradiologist and informatician currently working as a researcher in Dr. Shapiro's laboratory. Strikingly, cells lacking DipM also showed OM blebbing at the division site, at cell poles and along the cell body. Surface layers (S-layers) are paracrystalline, proteinaceous structures found in most archaea and many bacteria. Three global regulatory proteins cycle out of phase with one another and drive cell cycle progression by directly controlling the expression of 200 cell-cycle-regulated genes. We show that Caulobacter crescentus makes use of and requires a dedicated mechanism to initiate chromosome segregation. Thus, the hook operon upstream region contains a sequence element that responds to a temporally controlled trans-acting factor(s), and in concert with a second sequence element causes the timed activation of transcription. I conduct both basic and translational research on cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors. Structural studies on the capsid of Caulobacter crescentus bacteriophage phiCbK. Caulobacter crescentus initiates a single round of DNA replication during each cell cycle. These activities are in a multienzyme complex in Escherichia coli, but a similar complex was not observed in C. crescentus. These plasmids were mated into a wild-type strain and into strains containing various Tn5 insertion and deletion mutations and a temperature-sensitive mutation in the flaYE region. Bacteria which appear not to possess extrachromosomal elements, e.g., Caulobacter crescentus, did not show homology with any insertion sequences tested. A mutant of Caulobacter crescentus has been isolated which has an auxotrophic requirement for unsaturated fatty acids or biotin for growth on medium containing glucose as the carbon source. SsrA, or tmRNA, is a small RNA found in all bacteria that intervenes in selected translation reactions to target the nascent polypeptide for rapid proteolysis. Using genetic screens and cellular approaches in zebrafish, we aim to discover new genes with essential functions in glial cells, define new animal models of important disorders in humans, and provide new avenues toward therapies for injury and disease of the nervous system. We have also partially purified the Caulobacter homolog of IHF and demonstrate that it can facilitate in vitro integrase-mediated lambda recombination. Caulobacter crescentus has one of the simplest known developmental programs that exhibits both temporal and spatial organization. Moreover, we show that GapR is maintained as a tetramer upon its dissociation from DNA and that tetrameric GapR is capable of binding DNA molecules in vitro Analysis of protein chimeras revealed that two helices of GapR are functionally conserved in H-NS, demonstrating that two evolutionarily distant NAPs with distinct mechanisms of action utilize conserved structural elements to oligomerize and bind DNA.IMPORTANCE Bacteria organize their genetic material in a structure called the nucleoid, which needs to be compact to fit inside the cell and, at the same time, dynamic to allow high rates of replication and transcription. The maturation of new pole to old pole appears to be a common theme as well. Stanford offers a wide range of routine and esoteric testing across all areas of Clinical and Molecular Pathology. A simple antibody-based bioassay using fluorescently tagged proteins demonstrates the encoding strategy in biologically relevant media. The transcript synthesized in vitro was shown to be cleaved by C. crescentus RNase III and to release the transfer RNA genes from the downstream 16 S/23 S intergenic spacer region. Revertant strains had wild-type levels of glycerol 3-phosphate dehydrogenase activity and normal rates of phospholipid and macromolecular synthesis. Hodgson, D., Shaw, P., OCONNELL, M., Henry, S., Shapiro, L. PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF AN RNA PROCESSING ENZYME FROM CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS, DIFFERENTIAL TEMPLATE RECOGNITION BY THE CAULOBACTER-CRESCENTUS AND THE ESCHERICHIA-COLI RNA-POLYMERASES, METHYLATION INVOLVED IN CHEMOTAXIS IS REGULATED DURING CAULOBACTER DIFFERENTIATION. This point mutation allows normal flagellin synthesis, stalk formation, equatorial cell division, and rate of growth. These results suggest that sigma 54 abundance responds to cell cycle cues and is involved in the global timing of the central events of Caulobacter development, whereas the transcriptional activators of sigma 54-dependent promoters are responsible for the refined control of the expression of individual or small groups of genes required for each specific event. MreB selectively interacts, directly or indirectly, with origin-proximal regions of the chromosome, arguing that the origin-proximal region segregates via an MreB-dependent mechanism not used by the rest of the chromosome. Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Despite the essential role of the CckA histidine kinase in the control of cell cycle events, the factors that signal its activation at a specific time in the cell cycle have remained elusive. The 0.22 value of the scaling exponent for short DNA segments is consistent with theoretical predictions for a branched DNA polymer structure. Genetics 197:405-420. The expression of these class II genes initiates assembly of the flagellum just prior to activation of the ccrM promoter in the predivisional cell. rRNA genes of Caulobacter crescentus CB13 were isolated and shown to be present in two gene clusters in the genome. Although Drs. The C-terminal crystallization domain forms the physiological 2-dimensional (2D) crystal lattice, but full-length protein crystallizes multiple orders of magnitude faster due to the N-terminal nucleation domain. Homology between the IS elements and various genomes was determined by hybridizing labeled DNA containing IS1, IS2, and IS5 sequences to Southern blots of chromosomal DNA cleaved with restriction endonucleases. Because the Lon protease is present throughout the cell cycle, it is likely that the level of CcrM in the cell is controlled by a dynamic balance between temporally varied transcription and constitutive degradation. Fluorescence microscopy is a sensitive tool for this purpose. Like Dam in the enterobacteria, CcrM plays a regulatory role in Caulobacter crescentus and Rhizobium meliloti. Analysis of the C. crescentus homolog of dnaX, which in Escherichia coli encodes both the gamma and tau subunits of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, identified the dnaX transcription start site and showed that activity from the dnaX promoter is stimulated fourfold at the onset of DNA replication. Synthesis, stalk formation, equatorial cell division, and rate of growth by adenylylation is!, and rate of growth 000234174300065, View details for DOI 10.1073/pnas.0507708102, View details Web..., cells lacking DipM also showed OM blebbing at the division site, at cell poles along! Ihf and demonstrate that it can facilitate in vitro integrase-mediated lambda recombination View for. Engineering Here we demonstrate the applicability of one such biosensor, the protein. Sequences tested in the cell cycle S-layers ) are paracrystalline, proteinaceous structures in... 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