@article{BartholomaeusFedyuninFeistetal.2016, author = {Bartholom{\"a}us, Alexander and Fedyunin, Ivan and Feist, Peter and Sin, Celine and Zhang, Gong and Valleriani, Angelo and Ignatova, Zoya}, title = {Bacteria differently regulate mRNA abundance to specifically respond to various stresses}, series = {Geology}, volume = {374}, journal = {Geology}, publisher = {Royal Society}, address = {London}, issn = {1364-503X}, doi = {10.1098/rsta.2015.0069}, pages = {16}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Environmental stress is detrimental to cell viability and requires an adequate reprogramming of cellular activities to maximize cell survival. We present a global analysis of the response of Escherichia coli to acute heat and osmotic stress. We combine deep sequencing of total mRNA and ribosome-protected fragments to provide a genome-wide map of the stress response at transcriptional and translational levels. For each type of stress, we observe a unique subset of genes that shape the stress-specific response. Upon temperature upshift, mRNAs with reduced folding stability up-and downstream of the start codon, and thus with more accessible initiation regions, are translationally favoured. Conversely, osmotic upshift causes a global reduction of highly translated transcripts with high copy numbers, allowing reallocation of translation resources to not degraded and newly synthesized mRNAs.}, language = {en} }