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Bing Liu1,2, Jianxiang Fang1,2, Huizhen Chen1,2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resources and Ecology (LMB), Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology (LAMB), South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China.
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Vibrio alginolyticus is a widely distributed marine bacterium that is a threat to the aquaculture industry as well as human health. Evidence has revealed critical roles for small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacterial physiology and cellular processes by modulating gene expression post-transcriptionally. GcvB is one of the most conserved sRNAs that is regarded as the master regulator of amino acid uptake and metabolism in a wide range of Gram-negative bacteria. However, little information about GcvB-mediated regulation in V. alginolyticus is available. Here we first characterized GcvB in V. alginolyticus ZJ-T and determined its regulon by integrated transcriptome and quantitative proteome analysis. Transcriptome analysis revealed 40 genes differentially expressed (DEGs) between wild-type ZJ-T and gcvB mutant ZJ-T-ΔgcvB, while proteome analysis identified 50 differentially expressed proteins (DEPs) between them, but only 4 of them displayed transcriptional differences, indicating that most DEPs are the result of post-transcriptional regulation of gcvB. Among the differently expressed proteins, 21 are supposed to be involved in amino acid biosynthesis and transport, and 11 are associated with type three secretion system (T3SS), suggesting that GcvB may play a role in the virulence besides amino acid metabolism. RNA-EMSA showed that Hfq binds to GcvB, which promotes its stability.
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