Abstract
The chromosome of E. coli is maintained in a negatively supercoiled state, and supercoiling levels are affected by growth phase and a variety of environmental stimuli. Regulation of DNA supercoiling yields a complex spectrum of effects on the E. coli recA system. Previous studies indicated that inhibition of DNA gyrase by antibiotics that act on the DNA gyrase A subunit results in turning on the recA system. Here we show that antisense ribozymes that act on the DNA gyrase A subunit can also induce recA. We used real time PCR and immunoblot to analyze the impact of DNA gyrase A inhibition by antisense ribozymes on recA expression. When gyrase A was inhibited by the RNase P mediated antisense ribozymes the expression of recA was induced around 130-fold as seen by real time PCR analysis. This suggests that repair pathway is induced by antisense ribozymes against DNA gyrase A and the damage produced by these ribozymes may be similar to that produced by fluoroquinolones.
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