Effect of NaCl concentration on the transcriptional network of E. coli in glucose minimal medium with glycine betaine

The growth rate of E. coli decrease continuously with NaCl concentration, however the pattern for metabolic efficiency as measured by optical density is corralated to a change in pattern in transcription data and proteomics.The analysis of the data suggest that between 4.5 and 5% NaCl, the metabolism switched from aerobic to fermentative pathways. The response to osmotic stress is similar to a response to oxidative stress. An example how a stagewise metabolic answer may be the result of continuously increasing stress. Study of the pattern of gene expression as a function of NaCl concentrations (2%, 3.5% -2 replicates-, 4.5%, 5%, 5.5%). To compare the different conditions, cDNA was normalised to genomic DNA, gDNA.