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BMC Systems Biology | 2011

In vivo kinetics of transcription initiation of the lar promoter in Escherichia coli. Evidence for a sequential mechanism with two rate-limiting steps

Meenakshisundaram Kandhavelu; Henrik Mannerström; Abhishekh Gupta; Antti Häkkinen; Jason Lloyd-Price; Olli Yli-Harja; Andre S. Ribeiro

BackgroundIn Escherichia coli the mean and cell-to-cell diversity in RNA numbers of different genes vary widely. This is likely due to different kinetics of transcription initiation, a complex process with multiple rate-limiting steps that affect RNA production.ResultsWe measured the in vivo kinetics of production of individual RNA molecules under the control of the lar promoter in E. coli. From the analysis of the distributions of intervals between transcription events in the regimes of weak and medium induction, we find that the process of transcription initiation of this promoter involves a sequential mechanism with two main rate-limiting steps, each lasting hundreds of seconds. Both steps become faster with increasing induction by IPTG and Arabinose.ConclusionsThe two rate-limiting steps in initiation are found to be important regulators of the dynamics of RNA production under the control of the lar promoter in the regimes of weak and medium induction. Variability in the intervals between consecutive RNA productions is much lower than if there was only one rate-limiting step with a duration following an exponential distribution. The methodology proposed here to analyze the in vivo dynamics of transcription may be applicable at a genome-wide scale and provide valuable insight into the dynamics of prokaryotic genetic networks.


FEBS Letters | 2012

Regulation of mean and noise of the in vivo kinetics of transcription under the control of the lac/ara-1 promoter

Meenakshisundaram Kandhavelu; Jason Lloyd-Price; Abhishekh Gupta; Anantha-Barathi Muthukrishnan; Olli Yli-Harja; Andre S. Ribeiro

The kinetics of transcription initiation in Escherichia coli depend on the duration of two rate‐limiting steps, the closed and the open complex formation. In a lac promoter variant, P lac/ara‐1 , the kinetics of these steps is controlled by IPTG and arabinose. From in vivo single‐RNA measurements, we find that induction affects the mean and normalized variance of the intervals between consecutive RNA productions. Transcript production is sub‐Poissonian in all conditions tested. The kinetics of each step is independently controlled by a different inducer. We conclude that the regulatory mechanism of P lac/ara‐1 allows the stochasticity of gene expression to be environment‐dependent.


Biophysical Journal | 2014

In Vivo Kinetics of Segregation and Polar Retention of MS2-GFP-RNA Complexes in Escherichia coli

Abhishekh Gupta; Jason Lloyd-Price; Ramakanth Neeli-Venkata; Samuel M. D. Oliveira; Andre S. Ribeiro

The cytoplasm of Escherichia coli is a crowded, heterogeneous environment. From single cell live imaging, we investigated the spatial kinetics and heterogeneities of synthetic RNA-protein complexes. First, although their known tendency to accumulate at the cell poles does not appear to introduce asymmetries between older and newer cell poles within a cell lifetime, these emerge with cell divisions. This suggests strong polar retention of the complexes, which we verified in their history of positions and mean escape time from the poles. Next, we show that the polar retention relies on anisotropies in the displacement distribution in the region between midcell and poles, whereas the speed is homogeneous along the major cell axis. Afterward, we establish that these regions are at the border of the nucleoid and shift outward with cell growth, due to the nucleoids replication. Overall, the spatiotemporal kinetics of the complexes, which is robust to suboptimal temperatures, suggests that nucleoid occlusion is a source of dynamic heterogeneities of macromolecules in E. coli that ultimately generate phenotypic differences between sister cells.


Bioinformatics | 2012

SGNS2: a compartmentalized stochastic chemical kinetics simulator for dynamic cell populations

Jason Lloyd-Price; Abhishekh Gupta; Andre S. Ribeiro

MOTIVATION Cell growth and division affect the kinetics of internal cellular processes and the phenotype diversity of cell populations. Since the effects are complex, e.g. different cellular components are partitioned differently in cell division, to account for them in silico, one needs to simulate these processes in great detail. RESULTS We present SGNS2, a simulator of chemical reaction systems according to the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm with multi-delayed reactions within hierarchical, interlinked compartments which can be created, destroyed and divided at runtime. In division, molecules are randomly segregated into the daughter cells following a specified distribution corresponding to one of several partitioning schemes, applicable on a per-molecule-type basis. We exemplify its use with six models including a stochastic model of the disposal mechanism of unwanted protein aggregates in Escherichia coli, a model of phenotypic diversity in populations with different levels of synchrony, a model of a bacteriophages infection of a cell population and a model of prokaryotic gene expression at the nucleotide and codon levels. AVAILABILITY SGNS2, instructions and examples available at www.cs.tut.fi/~lloydpri/sgns2/ (open source under New BSD license). CONTACT [email protected]. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


PLOS ONE | 2012

Robustness and Information Propagation in Attractors of Random Boolean Networks

Jason Lloyd-Price; Abhishekh Gupta; Andre S. Ribeiro

Attractors represent the long-term behaviors of Random Boolean Networks. We study how the amount of information propagated between the nodes when on an attractor, as quantified by the average pairwise mutual information (), relates to the robustness of the attractor to perturbations (). We find that the dynamical regime of the network affects the relationship between and . In the ordered and chaotic regimes, is anti-correlated with , implying that attractors that are highly robust to perturbations have necessarily limited information propagation. Between order and chaos (for so-called “critical” networks) these quantities are uncorrelated. Finite size effects cause this behavior to be visible for a range of networks, from having a sensitivity of 1 to the point where is maximized. In this region, the two quantities are weakly correlated and attractors can be almost arbitrarily robust to perturbations without restricting the propagation of information in the network.


Molecular Microbiology | 2016

Increased cytoplasm viscosity hampers aggregate polar segregation in Escherichia coli

Samuel M. D. Oliveira; Ramakanth Neeli-Venkata; Nadia S. M. Goncalves; João Santinha; Leonardo Martins; Huy Tran; Jarno Mäkelä; Abhishekh Gupta; Marilia Barandas; Antti Häkkinen; Jason Lloyd-Price; José Manuel Fonseca; Andre S. Ribeiro

In Escherichia coli, under optimal conditions, protein aggregates associated with cellular aging are excluded from midcell by the nucleoid. We study the functionality of this process under sub‐optimal temperatures from population and time lapse images of individual cells and aggregates and nucleoids within. We show that, as temperature decreases, aggregates become homogeneously distributed and uncorrelated with nucleoid size and location. We present evidence that this is due to increased cytoplasm viscosity, which weakens the anisotropy in aggregate displacements at the nucleoid borders that is responsible for their preference for polar localisation. Next, we show that in plasmolysed cells, which have increased cytoplasm viscosity, aggregates are also not preferentially located at the poles. Finally, we show that the inability of cells with increased viscosity to exclude aggregates from midcell results in enhanced aggregate concentration in between the nucleoids in cells close to dividing. This weakens the asymmetries in aggregate numbers between sister cells of subsequent generations required for rejuvenating cell lineages. We conclude that the process of exclusion of protein aggregates from midcell is not immune to stress conditions affecting the cytoplasm viscosity. The findings contribute to our understanding of E. colis internal organisation and functioning, and its fragility to stressful conditions.


Physical Biology | 2014

Robustness of the division symmetry in Escherichia coli and functional consequences of symmetry breaking.

Abhishekh Gupta; Jason Lloyd-Price; Samuel M. D. Oliveira; Olli Yli-Harja; Anantha-Barathi Muthukrishnan; Andre S. Ribeiro

The morphological symmetry of the division process of Escherichia coli is well-known. Recent studies verified that, in optimal growth conditions, most divisions are symmetric, although there are exceptions. We investigate whether such morphological asymmetries in division introduce functional asymmetries between sister cells, and assess the robustness of the symmetry in division to mild chemical stresses and sub-optimal temperatures. First, we show that the difference in size between daughter cells at birth is positively correlated to the difference between the numbers of fluorescent protein complexes inherited from the parent cell. Next, we show that the degree of symmetry in division observed in optimal conditions is robust to mild acidic shift and to mild oxidative stress, but not to sub-optimal temperatures, in that the variance of the difference between the sizes of sister cells at birth is minimized at 37 °C. This increased variance affects the functionality of the cells in that, at sub-optimal temperatures, larger/smaller cells arising from asymmetric divisions exhibit faster/slower division times than the mean population division time, respectively. On the other hand, cells dividing faster do not do so at the cost of morphological symmetry in division. Finally we show that at suboptimal temperatures the mean distance between the nucleoids increases, explaining the increased variance in division. We conclude that the functionality of E. coli cells is not immune to morphological asymmetries at birth, and that the effectiveness of the mechanism responsible for ensuring the symmetry in division weakens at sub-optimal temperatures.


Journal of Bacteriology | 2016

Robustness of the process of nucleoid exclusion of protein aggregates in Escherichia coli

Ramakanth Neeli-Venkata; Antti Martikainen; Abhishekh Gupta; Nadia S. M. Goncalves; José Manuel Fonseca; Andre S. Ribeiro

UNLABELLED Escherichia coli segregates protein aggregates to the poles by nucleoid exclusion. Combined with cell divisions, this generates heterogeneous aggregate distributions in subsequent cell generations. We studied the robustness of this process with differing medium richness and antibiotics stress, which affect nucleoid size, using multimodal, time-lapse microscopy of live cells expressing both a fluorescently tagged chaperone (IbpA), which identifies in vivo the location of aggregates, and HupA-mCherry, a fluorescent variant of a nucleoid-associated protein. We find that the relative sizes of the nucleoids major and minor axes change widely, in a positively correlated fashion, with medium richness and antibiotic stress. The aggregates distribution along the major cell axis also changes between conditions and in agreement with the nucleoid exclusion phenomenon. Consequently, the fraction of aggregates at the midcell region prior to cell division differs between conditions, which will affect the degree of asymmetries in the partitioning of aggregates between cells of future generations. Finally, from the location of the peak of anisotropy in the aggregate displacement distribution, the nucleoid relative size, and the spatiotemporal aggregate distribution, we find that the exclusion of detectable aggregates from midcell is most pronounced in cells with mid-sized nucleoids, which are most common under optimal conditions. We conclude that the aggregate management mechanisms of E. coli are significantly robust but are not immune to stresses due to the tangible effect that these have on nucleoid size. IMPORTANCE Escherichia coli segregates protein aggregates to the poles by nucleoid exclusion. From live single-cell microscopy studies of the robustness of this process to various stresses known to affect nucleoid size, we find that nucleoid size and aggregate preferential locations change concordantly between conditions. Also, the degree of influence of the nucleoid on aggregate positioning differs between conditions, causing aggregate numbers at midcell to differ in cell division events, which will affect the degree of asymmetries in the partitioning of aggregates between cells of future generations. Finally, we find that aggregate segregation to the cell poles is most pronounced in cells with mid-sized nucleoids. We conclude that the energy-free process of the midcell exclusion of aggregates partially loses effectiveness under stressful conditions.


in Silico Biology | 2015

In silico analysis of division times of Escherichia coli populations as a function of the partitioning scheme of non-functional proteins

Abhishekh Gupta; Jason Lloyd-Price; Andre S. Ribeiro

Abstract Recent evidence suggests that cells employ functionally asymmetric partitioning schemes in division to cope with aging. We explore various schemes in silico, with a stochastic model of Escherichia coli that includes gene expression, non-functional proteins generation, aggregation and polar retention, and molecule partitioning in division. The model is implemented in SGNS2, which allows stochastic, multi-delayed reactions within hierarchical, transient, interlinked compartments. After setting parameter values of non-functional proteins’ generation and effects that reproduce realistic intracellular and population dynamics, we investigate how the spatial organization of non-functional proteins affects mean division times of cell populations in lineages and, thus, mean cell numbers over time. We find that division times decrease for increasingly asymmetric partitioning. Also, increasing the clustering of non-functional proteins decreases division times. Increasing the bias in polar segregation further decreases division times, particularly if the bias favors the older pole and aggregates’ polar retention is robust. Finally, we show that the non-energy consuming retention of inherited non-functional proteins at the older pole via nucleoid occlusion is a source of functional asymmetries and, thus, is advantageous. Our results suggest that the mechanisms of intracellular organization of non-functional proteins, including clustering and polar retention, affect the vitality of E. coli populations.


computational methods in systems biology | 2014

Modelling Polar Retention of Complexes in Escherichia coli

Abhishekh Gupta; Jason Lloyd-Price; Andre S. Ribeiro

The cytoplasm of Escherichia coli is a crowded, heterogeneous environment. The spatial kinetics and heterogeneities of synthetic RNA-protein complexes have been recently studied using single-cell live imaging. A strong polar retention of these complexes due to the presence of the nucleoid has been suggested based on their history of positions and long-term spatial distribution. Here, using stochastic modelling, we examine likely sources, which can reproduce the reported long-term spatial distribution of the complexes. Based on the anisotropic displacement distribution observed at the border between the mid-cell and poles, we conclude that the original hypothesis that the observed long-term behavior is the result of macromolecular crowding holds.

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Andre S. Ribeiro

Tampere University of Technology

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Jason Lloyd-Price

Tampere University of Technology

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Samuel M. D. Oliveira

Tampere University of Technology

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Antti Häkkinen

Tampere University of Technology

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Olli Yli-Harja

Tampere University of Technology

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Ramakanth Neeli-Venkata

Tampere University of Technology

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Nadia S. M. Goncalves

Tampere University of Technology

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