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Analysis of a logical regulatory network reveals how Fe-S cluster biogenesis is controlled in the face of stress

Firas Hammami
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Laurent Tichit
Béatrice Py
Pierre Mandin

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Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are important cofactors conserved in all domains of life, yet their synthesis and stability are compromised in stressful conditions such as iron deprivation or oxidative stress. Two conserved machineries, Isc and Suf, assemble and transfer Fe-S clusters to client proteins. The model bacterium Escherichia coli possesses both Isc and Suf, and in this bacterium utilization of these machineries is under the control of a complex regulatory network. To better understand the dynamics behind Fe-S cluster biogenesis in E. coli, we here built a logical model describing its regulatory network. This model comprises three biological processes: 1) Fe-S cluster biogenesis, containing Isc and Suf, the carriers NfuA and ErpA, and the transcription factor IscR, the main regulator of Fe-S clusters homeostasis; 2) iron homeostasis, containing the free intracellular iron regulated by the iron sensing regulator Fur and the non-coding regulatory RNA RyhB involved in iron sparing; 3) oxidative stress, representing intracellular H 2 O 2 accumulation, which activates OxyR, the regulator of catalases and peroxidases that decompose H 2 O 2 and limit the rate of the Fenton reaction. Analysis of this comprehensive model reveals a modular structure that displays five different types of system behaviors depending on environmental conditions, and provides a better understanding on how oxidative stress and iron homeostasis combine and control Fe-S cluster biogenesis. Using the model, we were able to predict that an iscR mutant would present growth defects in iron starvation due to partial inability to build Fe-S clusters, and we validated this prediction experimentally.
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hal-04144637 , version 1 (28-06-2023)

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Firas Hammami, Laurent Tichit, Béatrice Py, Frédéric Barras, Pierre Mandin, et al.. Analysis of a logical regulatory network reveals how Fe-S cluster biogenesis is controlled in the face of stress. microLife, 2023, 4, ⟨10.1093/femsml/uqad003⟩. ⟨hal-04144637⟩
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