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Nabi B, Kumawat M, Ahlawat N, Ahlawat S. Molecular, Structural, and Functional Diversity of Universal Stress Proteins (USPs) in Bacteria, Plants, and Their Biotechnological Applications. Protein J 2024; 43:437-446. [PMID: 38492187 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-024-10192-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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Universal stress proteins (USPs) are widely distributed and play crucial roles in cellular responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. These roles include regulating cell growth and development, cell motility, hypoxia responses, and ion sequestration. With the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events due to climate change, pathogens have developed different strategies to withstand environmental stresses, in which USPs play a significant role in their survival and virulence. In this study, we analyzed the importance of USPs in various organisms, such as archaea, plants, and fungi, as a parameter that influences their survival. We discussed the different types Of USPs and their role, aiming to carry out fundamental research in this field to identify significant constraints for better understanding of USP functions at molecular level. Additionally, we discussed concepts and research techniques that could help overcome these hurdles and facilitate new molecular approaches to better understand and target USPs as important stress adaptation and survival regulators. Although the precise characteristics of USPs are still unclear, numerous innovative uses have already been developed, tested, and implemented. Complementary approaches to basic research and applications, as well as new technology and analytical techniques, may offer insights into the cryptic but crucial activities of USPs in various living systems.
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- Bilkees Nabi
- Department of Biochemistry & Biochemical Engineering, SHUATS, Allahabad, 211007, India
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- Department of Microbiology, ICMR- National Institute for Research in Environmental Health, Bhopal, 462030, India.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, 462066, Madhya Pradesh, India.
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- Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, SHUATS, Allahabad, 211007, India
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- Department of Biochemistry & Biochemical Engineering, SHUATS, Allahabad, 211007, India.
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Banerjee A, Chakraborty M, Sharma S, Chaturvedi R, Bose A, Biswas P, Singh A, Visweswariah SS. Cyclic AMP binding to a universal stress protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is essential for viability. J Biol Chem 2024; 300:107287. [PMID: 38636658 PMCID: PMC11107214 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2024] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 04/05/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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Mycobacterial genomes encode multiple adenylyl cyclases and cAMP effector proteins, underscoring the diverse ways these bacteria utilize cAMP. We identified universal stress proteins, Rv1636 and MSMEG_3811 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis, respectively, as abundantly expressed, novel cAMP-binding proteins. Rv1636 is secreted via the SecA2 secretion system in M. tuberculosis but is not directly responsible for the efflux of cAMP from the cell. In slow-growing mycobacteria, intrabacterial concentrations of Rv1636 were equivalent to the concentrations of cAMP present in the cell. In contrast, levels of intrabacterial MSMEG_3811 in M. smegmatis were lower than that of cAMP and therefore, overexpression of Rv1636 increased levels of "bound" cAMP. While msmeg_3811 could be readily deleted from the genome of M. smegmatis, we found that the rv1636 gene is essential for the viability of M. tuberculosis and is dependent on the cAMP-binding ability of Rv1636. Therefore, Rv1636 may function to regulate cAMP signaling by direct sequestration of the second messenger. This is the first evidence of a "sponge" for any second messenger in bacterial signaling that would allow mycobacterial cells to regulate the available intrabacterial "free" pool of cAMP.
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- Arka Banerjee
- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India.
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Singh A, Singhal C, Sharma AK, Khurana P. An auxin regulated Universal stress protein (TaUSP_3B-1) interacts with TaGolS and provides tolerance under drought stress and ER stress. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2024; 176:e14390. [PMID: 38899466 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.14390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 05/10/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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A previously identified wheat drought stress responsive Universal stress protein, TaUSP_3B-1 has been found to work in an auxin dependent manner in the plant root tissues in the differentiation zone. We also found a novel interacting partner, TaGolS, which physically interacts with TaUSP_3B-1 and colocalizes in the endoplasmic reticulum. TaGolS is a key enzyme in the RFO (Raffinose oligosaccharides) biosynthesis which is well reported to provide tolerance under water deficit conditions. TaUSP_3B-1 overexpression lines showed an early flowering phenotype under drought stress which might be attributed to the increased levels of AtTPPB and AtTPS transcripts under drought stress. Moreover, at the cellular levels ER stress induced TaUSP_3B-1 transcription and provides tolerance in both adaptive and acute ER stress via less ROS accumulation in the overexpression lines. TaUSP_3B-1 overexpression plants had increased silique numbers and a denser root architecture as compared to the WT plants under drought stress.
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- Arunima Singh
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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Singh A, Singhal C, Sharma AK, Khurana P. Identification of universal stress proteins in wheat and functional characterization during abiotic stress. PLANT CELL REPORTS 2023; 42:1487-1501. [PMID: 37341826 DOI: 10.1007/s00299-023-03043-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 06/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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KEY MESSAGE TaUSPs are localized in Endoplasmic reticulum and form homo and hetero dimers within themselves. They play significant role in multiple abiotic stress responses in yeast heterologous system and in plants. Universal Stress Proteins are stress responsive proteins present in a variety of life forms ranging from bacteria to multicellular plants and animals. In this study we have identified 85 TaUSP genes in the wheat genome and have characterised their abiotic stress responsive members in yeast under different stress conditions. Localization and Y2H studies suggest that wheat, USP proteins are localized in the ER complex, and extensively crosstalk amongst themselves through forming hetero and homodimers. Expression analysis of these TaUSP genes suggests their role in adaptation to multiple abiotic stresses. TaUSP_5D-1 was found to have some DNA binding activity in yeast. Certain abiotic stress responsive TaUSP genes are found to impart tolerance to temperature stress, oxidative stress, ER stress (DTT treatment) and LiCl2 stress in the yeast heterologous system. TaUSP_5D-1 overexpression in A. thaliana imparts drought tolerance via better lateral root network in transgenic lines. The TaUSP represents an important repertoire of genes for engineering abiotic stress responsiveness in crop plants.
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- Arunima Singh
- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India
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- Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, Benito Juarez Road, New Delhi, 110021, India.
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Luo D, Wu Z, Bai Q, Zhang Y, Huang M, Huang Y, Li X. Universal Stress Proteins: From Gene to Function. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054725. [PMID: 36902153 PMCID: PMC10003552 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/05/2023] Open
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Universal stress proteins (USPs) exist across a wide range of species and are vital for survival under stressful conditions. Due to the increasingly harsh global environmental conditions, it is increasingly important to study the role of USPs in achieving stress tolerance. This review discusses the role of USPs in organisms from three aspects: (1) organisms generally have multiple USP genes that play specific roles at different developmental periods of the organism, and, due to their ubiquity, USPs can be used as an important indicator to study species evolution; (2) a comparison of the structures of USPs reveals that they generally bind ATP or its analogs at similar sequence positions, which may underlie the regulatory role of USPs; and (3) the functions of USPs in species are diverse, and are generally directly related to the stress tolerance. In microorganisms, USPs are associated with cell membrane formation, whereas in plants they may act as protein chaperones or RNA chaperones to help plants withstand stress at the molecular level and may also interact with other proteins to regulate normal plant activities. This review will provide directions for future research, focusing on USPs to provide clues for the development of stress-tolerant crop varieties and for the generation of novel green pesticide formulations in agriculture, and to better understand the evolution of drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms in medicine.
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Exopolyphosphatases PPX1 and PPX2 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulate dormancy response and pathogenesis. Microb Pathog 2022; 173:105885. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2022] [Revised: 11/12/2022] [Accepted: 11/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mechanistic Insight into the Enzymatic Inhibition of β-Amyrin against Mycobacterial Rv1636: In Silico and In Vitro Approaches. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:biology11081214. [PMID: 36009841 PMCID: PMC9405466 DOI: 10.3390/biology11081214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Simple Summary Rv1636 is a mycobacterial universal stress protein whose expression level increases in different type of stress conditions. This protein promotes the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the host derived stress conditions generated during infection. Therefore in this manuscipt, we are trying to target Rv1636 using natural inhibitor. Targeting essential Mycobacterial protein using natural prodect was hypothesized to generate a molecule with low toxic effects and high inhibitory activity. It was found that Rv1636 contains ATPase activity and its ATPase activity gets disturbed by addition of β-Amyrin in the reaction. β-Amyrin was forund to interfere with the ATP binding site of Rv1636 which was confirmed by molecular docking anad dynamic studies. In addition to the ATPase activity, Rv1636 was also contain the cAMP binding capacity and also involved in balancing the cAMP levels inside cells. So, targeting Rv1636 using β-Amyrin disrupts its ATPase activity and cAMP regulatory activity and these conditions might make Mycobacterium tuberculosis more susceptible to the host derived stress conditions. Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis has seen tremendous success as it has developed defenses to reside in host alveoli despite various host-related stress circumstances. Rv1636 is a universal stress protein contributing to mycobacterial survival in different host-derived stress conditions. Both ATP and cAMP can be bound with the Rv1636, and their binding actions are independent of one another. β-Amyrin, a triterpenoid compound, is abundant in medicinal plants and has many pharmacological properties and broad therapeutic potential. The current study uses biochemical, biophysical, and computational methods to define the binding of Rv1636 with β-Amyrin. A substantial interaction between β-Amyrin and Rv1636 was discovered by molecular docking studies, which helped decipher the critical residues involved in the binding process. VAL60 is a crucial residue found in the complexes of both Rv1636_β-Amyrin and Rv1636-ATP. Additionally, the Rv1636_β-Amyrin complex was shown to be stable by molecular dynamics simulation studies (MD), with minimal changes observed during the simulation. In silico observations were further complemented by in vitro assays. Successful cloning, expression, and purification of Rv1636 were accomplished using Ni-NTA affinity chromatography. The results of the ATPase activity assay indicated that Rv1636’s ATPase activity was inhibited in the presence of various β-Amyrin concentrations. Additionally, circular dichroism spectroscopy (CD) was used to examine modifications to Rv1636 secondary structure upon binding of β-Amyrin. Finally, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) advocated spontaneous binding of β-Amyrin with Rv1636 elucidating the thermodynamics of the Rv1636_β-Amyrin complex. Thus, the study establishes that β-Amyrin binds to Rv1636 with a significant affinity forming a stable complex and inhibiting its ATPase activity. The present study suggests that β-Amyrin might affect the functioning of Rv1636, which makes the bacterium vulnerable to different stress conditions.
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Griego A, Douché T, Gianetto QG, Matondo M, Manina G. RNase E and HupB dynamics foster mycobacterial cell homeostasis and fitness. iScience 2022; 25:104233. [PMID: 35521527 PMCID: PMC9062218 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Revised: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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RNA turnover is a primary source of gene expression variation, in turn promoting cellular adaptation. Mycobacteria leverage reversible mRNA stabilization to endure hostile conditions. Although RNase E is essential for RNA turnover in several species, its role in mycobacterial single-cell physiology and functional phenotypic diversification remains unexplored. Here, by integrating live-single-cell and quantitative-mass-spectrometry approaches, we show that RNase E forms dynamic foci, which are associated with cellular homeostasis and fate, and we discover a versatile molecular interactome. We show a likely interaction between RNase E and the nucleoid-associated protein HupB, which is particularly pronounced during drug treatment and infection, where phenotypic diversity increases. Disruption of RNase E expression affects HupB levels, impairing Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth homeostasis during treatment, intracellular replication, and host spread. Our work lays the foundation for targeting the RNase E and its partner HupB, aiming to undermine M. tuberculosis cellular balance, diversification capacity, and persistence. Single mycobacterial cells exhibit phenotypic variation in RNase E expression RNase E is implicated in the maintenance of mycobacterial cell growth homeostasis RNase E and HupB show a functional interplay in single mycobacterial cells RNase E-HupB disruption impairs Mycobacterium tuberculosis fate under drug and in macrophages
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Bandyopadhyay D, Mukherjee M. Combination of bactericidal antibiotics and inhibitors of Universal stress protein A (UspA): a potential therapeutic alternative against multidrug resistant Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2022; 75:21-28. [PMID: 34526667 DOI: 10.1038/s41429-021-00477-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The increasing incidence of multidrug resistant uropathogenic E. coli (MDR-UPEC), the most common opportunistic pathogen in urinary tract infections (UTI) pose a global health problem and demands searching for alternative therapeutics. Antibiotics generate oxidative stress in bacteria which results in overexpression of the universal stress protein, UspA that helps in bacterial survival. An in silico study showed that two compounds ZINC000104153710, and ZINC000000217308 effectively bound bacterial UspA. This study aimed to determine the activity of ZINC000104153710, and ZINC000000217308 against bacterial UspA function in MDR-UPEC in vitro. Twenty-five highly MDR-UPEC were screened against ZINC000104153710, and, ZINC000000217308 either alone or in combination with the bactericidal antibiotics; ciprofloxacin (CIP), ceftazidime(CAZ), gentamicin(GEN) respectively by determining minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) using a broth microdilution assay. Additionally, the effect of ZINC000104153710, and ZINC000000217308 in the absence and presence of antibiotics on the bacteria was monitored by bacterial growth curve assays, ROS production, structure of the organism by scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and quantitating UspA using a western blot technique. A 2-8 fold reduction in MIC values against ZINC000104153710, and ZINC000000217308 was observed against all 25 MDR-UPEC isolates in the presence of antibiotics with no alteration in intracellular ROS production. Discrete changes in cell morphology was evident in bacteria treated with ZINC000104153710 or ZINC000000217308 and antibiotics individually by FESEM compared with untreated control. Reduction in the level of UspA protein in bacteria treated with combination of ZINC000104153710 or ZINC000000217308 with individual antibiotics established their ability to inhibit UspA whose expression was elevated in presence of antibiotics alone. Therefore this study validated ZINC000104153710, and ZINC000000217308 as potent inhibitors of bacterial UspA function and indicated their potential as alternative therapeutics to combat the MDR-UPEC.
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- Debojyoty Bandyopadhyay
- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Masamba P, Kappo AP. Parasite Survival and Disease Persistence in Cystic Fibrosis, Schistosomiasis and Pathogenic Bacterial Diseases: A Role for Universal Stress Proteins? Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:10878. [PMID: 34639223 PMCID: PMC8509486 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Universal stress proteins (USPs) were originally discovered in Escherichia coli over two decades ago and since then their presence has been detected in various organisms that include plants, archaea, metazoans, and bacteria. As their name suggests, they function in a series of various cellular responses in both abiotic and biotic stressful conditions such as oxidative stress, exposure to DNA damaging agents, nutrient starvation, high temperature and acidic stress, among others. Although a highly conserved group of proteins, the molecular and biochemical aspects of their functions are largely evasive. This is concerning, as it was observed that USPs act as essential contributors to the survival/persistence of various infectious pathogens. Their ubiquitous nature in various organisms, as well as their augmentation during conditions of stress, is a clear indication of their direct or indirect importance in providing resilience against such conditions. This paper seeks to clarify what has already been reported in the literature on the proposed mechanism of action of USPs in pathogenic organisms.
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- Priscilla Masamba
- Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology (MBSB) Group, Department of Biochemistry, Kingsway Campus, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa;
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Dutta A, Batish M, Parashar V. Structural basis of KdpD histidine kinase binding to the second messenger c-di-AMP. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100771. [PMID: 33989637 PMCID: PMC8214093 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 05/03/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The KdpDE two-component system regulates potassium homeostasis and virulence in various bacterial species. The KdpD histidine kinases (HK) of this system contain a universal stress protein (USP) domain which binds to the second messenger cyclic-di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP) for regulating transcriptional output from this two-component system in Firmicutes such as Staphylococcus aureus. However, the structural basis of c-di-AMP specificity within the KdpD-USP domain is not well understood. Here, we resolved a 2.3 Å crystal structure of the S. aureus KdpD-USP domain (USPSa) complexed with c-di-AMP. Binding affinity analyses of USPSa mutants targeting the observed USPSa:c-di-AMP structural interface enabled the identification of the sequence residues that are required for c-di-AMP specificity. Based on the conservation of these residues in other Firmicutes, we identified the binding motif, (A/G/C)XSXSX2N(Y/F), which allowed us to predict c-di-AMP binding in other KdpD HKs. Furthermore, we found that the USPSa domain contains structural features distinct from the canonical standalone USPs that bind ATP as a preferred ligand. These features include inward-facing conformations of its β1-α1 and β4-α4 loops, a short α2 helix, the absence of a triphosphate-binding Walker A motif, and a unique dual phospho-ligand binding mode. It is therefore likely that USPSa-like domains in KdpD HKs represent a novel subfamily of the USPs.
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- Anirudha Dutta
- Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
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- Department of Medical and Molecular Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
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Fang QJ, Han YX, Shi YJ, Huang HQ, Fang ZG, Hu YH. Universal stress proteins contribute Edwardsiella piscicida adversity resistance and pathogenicity and promote blocking host immune response. FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY 2019; 95:248-258. [PMID: 31654767 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsi.2019.10.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2019] [Revised: 10/02/2019] [Accepted: 10/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Universal stress proteins (Usps) exist ubiquitously in bacteria and other organisms. Usps play an important role in adaptation of bacteria to a variety of environmental stresses. There is increasing evidence that Usps facilitate pathogens to adapt host environment and are involved in pathogenicity. Edwardsiella piscicida (formerly included in E. tarda) is a severe fish pathogen and infects various important economic fish including tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). In E. piscicida, a number of systems and factors that are involved in stress resistance and pathogenesis were identified. However, the function of Usps in E. piscicida is totally unknown. In this study, we examined the expressions of 13 usp genes in E. piscicida and found that most of these usp genes were up-regulated expression under high temperature, oxidative stress, acid stress, and host serum stress. Particularly, among these usp genes, usp13, exhibited dramatically high expression level upon several stress conditions. To investigate the biological role of usp13, a markerless usp13 in-frame mutant strain, TX01Δusp13, was constructed. Compared to the wild type TX01, TX01Δusp13 exhibited markedly compromised tolerance to high temperature, hydrogen peroxide, and low pH. Deletion of usp13 significantly retarded bacterial biofilm growth and decreased resistance against serum killing. Pathogenicity analysis showed that the inactivation of usp13 significantly impaired the ability of E. piscicida to invade into host cell and infect host tissue. Introduction of a trans-expressed usp13 gene restored the lost virulence of TX01Δusp13. In support of these results, host immune response induced by TX01 and TX01Δusp13 was examined, and the results showed reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in TX01Δusp13-infected macrophages were significantly higher than those in TX01-infected cells. The expression level of several cytokines (IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, and CC2) in TX01Δusp13-infected fish was significantly higher than that in TX01-infected fish. These results suggested that the deletion of usp13 attenuated the ability of bacteria to overcome the host immune response to pathogen infection. Taken together, our study indicated Usp13 of E. piscicida was not only important participant in adversity resistance, but also was essential for E. piscicida pathogenicity and contributed to block host immune response to pathogen infection.
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- Qing-Jian Fang
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, College of Marine Science, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China; Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China; Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Functional Components Research and Utilization of Marine Bio-resources, Haikou, 571101, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, College of Marine Science, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China.
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- Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, 571101, China; Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), China; Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory for Functional Components Research and Utilization of Marine Bio-resources, Haikou, 571101, China.
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Tiwari P, Gosain TP, Singh M, Sankhe GD, Arora G, Kidwai S, Agarwal S, Chugh S, Saini DK, Singh R. Inorganic polyphosphate accumulation suppresses the dormancy response and virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:10819-10832. [PMID: 31113860 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.008370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 05/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Stringent response pathways involving inorganic polyphosphate (PolyP) play an essential role in bacterial stress adaptation and virulence. The intracellular levels of PolyP are modulated by the activities of polyphosphate kinase-1 (PPK1), polyphosphate kinase-2 (PPK2), and exopolyphosphatases (PPXs). The genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes two functional PPXs, and simultaneous deletion of ppx1 and ppx2 results in a defect in biofilm formation. We demonstrate here that these PPXs cumulatively contribute to the ability of M. tuberculosis to survive in nutrient-limiting, low-oxygen growth conditions and also in macrophages. Characterization of single (Δppx2) and double knockout (dkppx) strains of M. tuberculosis indicated that PPX-mediated PolyP degradation is essential for establishing bacterial infection in guinea pigs. RNA-Seq-based transcriptional profiling revealed that relative to the parental strain, the expression levels of DosR regulon-regulated dormancy genes were significantly reduced in the dkppx mutant strain. In concordance, we also provide evidence that PolyP inhibits the autophosphorylation activities associated with DosT and DosS sensor kinases. The results in this study uncover that enzymes involved in PolyP homeostasis play a critical role in M. tuberculosis physiology and virulence and are attractive targets for developing more effective therapeutic interventions.
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- Prabhakar Tiwari
- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and
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- Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering and; Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development, and Genetics, Biological Sciences Building, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka 560012, India
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- Tuberculosis Research Laboratory, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Research Centre, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Haryana 121001, India and.
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Sharma D, Lata M, Faheem M, Khan AU, Joshi B, Venkatesan K, Shukla S, Bisht D. Role of M.tuberculosis protein Rv2005c in the aminoglycosides resistance. Microb Pathog 2019; 132:150-155. [PMID: 31059757 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2019.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Revised: 05/02/2019] [Accepted: 05/02/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Tuberculosis is an airborne infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis which threatens the globe. Aminoglycosides {Amikacin (AK) & Kanamycin (KM)} are WHO recommended second-line anti-TB drugs used against the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Aminoglycosides target the steps of protein translation machinery of M.tuberculosis. Several mechanisms have been put forward to elucidate the phenomena of aminoglycosides resistance but our knowledge is still insufficient. The aim of the study was to understand the involvement of Mycobacterium tuberculosis universal stress protein (Rv2005c) in aminoglycosides resistance and virulence. To establish the relationship of universal stress protein Rv2005c with AK & KM resistance, Rv2005c was cloned, expressed in E.coli BL21 using pQE2 expression vector and antimicrobial drug susceptibility testing (DST) was carried out. STRING-10 was also used to predict the interacting protein partners of Rv2005c. DST showed that the minimum inhibitory concentration of induced recombinant cells (Rv2005c) were five and four folds shifted with AK and KM E-strips, respectively. STRING-10 showed the interacting protein partners of Rv2005c. Overexpression of Rv2005c leads to shifting in MIC which might be signifying its involvement in the survival/resistance of Mycobacteria by inhibiting/modulating the effects of AK and KM released from the E-strips. Interactome also suggests that Rv2005c and its interacting protein partners are cumulatively involved in M.tuberculosis resistance, stresses, and latency.
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- Divakar Sharma
- Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India; Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, 202002, India.
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- Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, 202002, India
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- Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, 202002, India
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- Department of Immunology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India
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- School of Studies (SOS) Zoology, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, 474011, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282004, India.
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Johnson RM, McDonough KA. Cyclic nucleotide signaling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: an expanding repertoire. Pathog Dis 2019; 76:4995197. [PMID: 29905867 DOI: 10.1093/femspd/fty048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is one of the most successful microbial pathogens, and currently infects over a quarter of the world's population. Mtb's success depends on the ability of the bacterium to sense and respond to dynamic and hostile environments within the host, including the ability to regulate bacterial metabolism and interactions with the host immune system. One of the ways Mtb senses and responds to conditions it faces during infection is through the concerted action of multiple cyclic nucleotide signaling pathways. This review will describe how Mtb uses cyclic AMP, cyclic di-AMP and cyclic di-GMP to regulate important physiological processes, and how these signaling pathways can be exploited for the development of novel thereapeutics and vaccines.
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- Richard M Johnson
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12201-2002, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY 12201-2002, USA.,Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201-2002, USA
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Functional Characterization of Selected Universal Stress Protein from Salvia miltiorrhiza (SmUSP) in Escherichia coli. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8090224. [PMID: 28885603 PMCID: PMC5615357 DOI: 10.3390/genes8090224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2017] [Revised: 08/20/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The multigene universal stress protein (USP) family is evolutionarily conserved. Members play indispensable roles in plant tolerance to abiotic stresses. Although relatively well-characterized in model plants, such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Oryzasativa, this family has not been investigated in Salvia miltiorrhiza, an important herbal plant for which yields can be limited by various abiotic stresses. Here, we identified 32 USP family members in the S. miltiorrhiza genome, and used phylogenetic analysis to sort these SmUSPs into four groups. Groups A and B belong to the ATP-binding class whereas Groups C and D are in the non-ATP-binding class. Motif analysis and multiple sequence alignment hinted that members of group A and B were able to bind ATP. Our qRT-PCR data from different tissues/organs and under salt and heat stresses provided an overall expression pattern for those genes. Three SmUSPs (SmUSP1, SmUSP8, and SmUSP27) were cloned from S. miltiorrhiza and functionally characterized in Escherichiacoli. Compared with the control cells, those that expressed SmUSPs exhibited enhanced tolerance to salt, heat, and a combination of the two. This suggested that the protein has a protective role in cells when exposed to single-stress and multiple-stress conditions. Our findings provide valuable information that helps improve our understanding of the evolutionary and functional conservation and diversity associated with the USP gene family in S. miltiorrhiza.
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A Proteomic Signature of Dormancy in the Actinobacterium Micrococcus luteus. J Bacteriol 2017; 199:JB.00206-17. [PMID: 28484042 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00206-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Dormancy is a protective state in which diverse bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Treponema pallidum (syphilis), and Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease), curtail metabolic activity to survive external stresses, including antibiotics. Evidence suggests dormancy consists of a continuum of interrelated states, including viable but nonculturable (VBNC) and persistence states. VBNC and persistence contribute to antibiotic tolerance, reemergence from latent infections, and even quorum sensing and biofilm formation. Previous studies indicate that the protein mechanisms regulating persistence and VBNC states are not well understood. We have queried the VBNC state of Micrococcus luteus NCTC 2665 (MI-2665) by quantitative proteomics combining gel electrophoresis, high-performance liquid chromatography, and tandem mass spectrometry to elucidate some of these mechanisms. MI-2665 is a nonpathogenic actinobacterium containing a small (2.5-Mb), high-GC-content genome which exhibits a well-defined VBNC state induced by nutrient deprivation. The MI-2665 VBNC state demonstrated a loss of protein diversity accompanied by increased levels of 18 proteins that are conserved across actinobacteria, 14 of which have not been previously identified in VNBC. These proteins implicate an anaplerotic strategy in the transition to VBNC, including changes in the glyoxylate shunt, redox and amino acid metabolism, and ribosomal regulatory processes. Our data suggest that MI-2665 is a viable model for dissecting the protein mechanisms underlying the VBNC stress response and provide the first protein-level signature of this state. We expect that this protein signature will enable future studies deciphering the protein mechanisms of dormancy and identify novel therapeutic strategies effective against antibiotic-tolerant bacterial infections.IMPORTANCE Dormancy is a protective state enabling bacteria to survive antibiotics, starvation, and the immune system. Dormancy is comprised of different states, including persistent and viable but nonculturable (VBNC) states that contribute to the spread of bacterial infections. Therefore, it is imperative to identify how bacteria utilize these different dormancy states to survive antibiotic treatment. The objective of our research is to eliminate dormancy as a route to antibiotic tolerance by understanding the proteins that control dormancy in Micrococcus luteus NCTC 2665. This bacterium has unique advantages for studying dormancy, including a small genome and a well-defined and reproducible VBNC state. Our experiments implicate four previously identified and 14 novel proteins upregulated in VBNC that may regulate this critical survival mechanism.
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Transcriptomic Analysis of Laribacter hongkongensis Reveals Adaptive Response Coupled with Temperature. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0169998. [PMID: 28085929 PMCID: PMC5234827 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Bacterial adaptation to different hosts requires transcriptomic alteration in response to the environmental conditions. Laribacter hongkongensis is a gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, urease-positive bacillus caused infections in liver cirrhosis patients and community-acquired gastroenteritis. It was also found in intestine from commonly consumed freshwater fishes and drinking water reservoirs. Since L. hongkongensis could survive as either fish or human pathogens, their survival mechanisms in two different habitats should be temperature-regulated and highly complex. Therefore, we performed transcriptomic analysis of L. hongkongensis at body temperatures of fish and human in order to elucidate the versatile adaptation mechanisms coupled with the temperatures. We identified numerous novel temperature-induced pathways involved in host pathogenesis, in addition to the shift of metabolic equilibriums and overexpression of stress-related proteins. Moreover, these pathways form a network that can be activated at a particular temperature, and change the physiology of the bacteria to adapt to the environments. In summary, the dynamic of transcriptomes in L. hongkongensis provides versatile strategies for the bacterial survival at different habitats and this alteration prepares the bacterium for the challenge of host immunity.
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Tremonte P, Succi M, Coppola R, Sorrentino E, Tipaldi L, Picariello G, Pannella G, Fraternali F. Homology-Based Modeling of Universal Stress Protein from Listeria innocua Up-Regulated under Acid Stress Conditions. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1998. [PMID: 28066336 PMCID: PMC5168468 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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An Universal Stress Protein (USP) expressed under acid stress condition by Listeria innocua ATCC 33090 was investigated. The USP was up-regulated not only in the stationary phase but also during the exponential growth phase. The three dimensional (3D) structure of USP was predicted using a combined proteomic and bioinformatics approach. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the USP from Listeria detected in our study was distant from the USPs of other bacteria (such as Pseudomonas spp., Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp.) and clustered in a separate and heterogeneous class including several USPs from Listeria spp. and Lactobacillus spp. An important information on the studied USP was obtained from the 3D-structure established through the homology modeling procedure. In detail, the Model_USP-691 suggested that the investigated USP had a homo-tetrameric quaternary structure. Each monomer presented an architecture analogous to the Rossmann-like α/β-fold with five parallel β-strands, and four α-helices. The analysis of monomer-monomer interfaces and quality of the structure alignments confirmed the model reliability. In fact, the structurally and sequentially conserved hydrophobic residues of the β-strand 5 (in particular the residues V146 and V148) were involved in the inter-chains contact. Moreover, the highly conserved residues I139 and H141 in the region α4 were involved in the dimer association and functioned as hot spots into monomer–monomer interface assembly. The hypothetical assembly of dimers was also supported by the large interface area and by the negative value of solvation free energy gain upon interface interaction. Finally, the structurally conserved ATP-binding motif G-2X-G-9X-G(S/T-N) suggested for a putative role of ATP in stabilizing the tetrameric assembly of the USP. Therefore, the results obtained from a multiple approach, consisting in the application of kinetic, proteomic, phylogenetic and modeling analyses, suggest that Listeria USP could be considered a new type of ATP-binding USP involved in the response to acid stress condition during the exponential growth phase.
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- Patrizio Tremonte
- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Institute of Food Science, National Research Council (ISA-CNR) Avellino, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences (DiAAA), University of Molise Campobasso, Italy
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- Randall Division of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, New Hunt's House King's College London, UK
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Jia Q, Hu X, Shi D, Zhang Y, Sun M, Wang J, Mi K, Zhu G. Universal stress protein Rv2624c alters abundance of arginine and enhances intracellular survival by ATP binding in mycobacteria. Sci Rep 2016; 6:35462. [PMID: 27762279 PMCID: PMC5071874 DOI: 10.1038/srep35462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Accepted: 09/30/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The universal stress protein family is a family of stress-induced proteins. Universal stress proteins affect latency and antibiotic resistance in mycobacteria. Here, we showed that Mycobacterium smegmatis overexpressing M. tuberculosis universal stress protein Rv2624c exhibits increased survival in human monocyte THP-1 cells. Transcriptome analysis suggested that Rv2624c affects histidine metabolism, and arginine and proline metabolism. LC-MS/MS analysis showed that Rv2624c affects the abundance of arginine, a modulator of both mycobacteria and infected THP-1 cells. Biochemical analysis showed that Rv2624c is a nucleotide-binding universal stress protein, and an Rv2624c mutant incapable of binding ATP abrogated the growth advantage in THP-1 cells. Rv2624c may therefore modulate metabolic pathways in an ATP-dependent manner, changing the abundance of arginine and thus increasing survival in THP-1 cells.
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- Qiong Jia
- MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China.,The Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
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- Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Health for Research on Quality and Standardization of Biotech Products, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing 100050, China
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- Zhangjiakou Center for Adverse Drug Reaction and Drug Abuse, Hebei 075000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang 321004, China
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- MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
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- Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control &Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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Gonzali S, Loreti E, Cardarelli F, Novi G, Parlanti S, Pucciariello C, Bassolino L, Banti V, Licausi F, Perata P. Universal stress protein HRU1 mediates ROS homeostasis under anoxia. NATURE PLANTS 2015; 1:15151. [PMID: 27251529 DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2015.151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2015] [Accepted: 09/09/2015] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Plant survival is greatly impaired when oxygen levels are limiting, such as during flooding or when anatomical constraints limit oxygen diffusion. Oxygen sensing in Arabidopsis thaliana is mediated by Ethylene Responsive Factor (ERF)-VII transcription factors, which control a core set of hypoxia- and anoxia-responsive genes responsible for metabolic acclimation to low-oxygen conditions. Anoxic conditions also induce genes related to reactive oxygen species (ROS). Whether the oxygen-sensing machinery coordinates ROS production under anoxia has remained unclear. Here we show that a low-oxygen-responsive universal stress protein (USP), Hypoxia Responsive Universal Stress Protein 1 (HRU1), is induced by RAP2.12 (Related to Apetala 2.12), an ERF-VII protein, and modulates ROS production in Arabidopsis. We found that HRU1 is strongly induced by submergence, but that this induction is abolished in plants lacking RAP2.12. Mutation of HRU1 through transfer DNA (T-DNA) insertion alters hydrogen peroxide production, and reduces tolerance to submergence and anoxia. Yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) analyses reveal that HRU1 interacts with proteins that induce ROS production, the GTPase ROP2 and the NADPH oxidase RbohD, pointing to the existence of a low-oxygen-specific mechanism for the modulation of ROS levels. We propose that HRU1 coordinates oxygen sensing with ROS signalling under anoxic conditions.
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- Silvia Gonzali
- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
- nanoPlant Center @NEST, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, National Research Council, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56100, Italy
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- Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
- nanoPlant Center @NEST, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
- nanoPlant Center @NEST, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127, Italy
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- PlantLab, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Via Mariscoglio 34, Pisa 56124, Italy
- nanoPlant Center @NEST, Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127, Italy
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Hentchel KL, Escalante-Semerena JC. Acylation of Biomolecules in Prokaryotes: a Widespread Strategy for the Control of Biological Function and Metabolic Stress. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2015; 79:321-46. [PMID: 26179745 PMCID: PMC4503791 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00020-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Acylation of biomolecules (e.g., proteins and small molecules) is a process that occurs in cells of all domains of life and has emerged as a critical mechanism for the control of many aspects of cellular physiology, including chromatin maintenance, transcriptional regulation, primary metabolism, cell structure, and likely other cellular processes. Although this review focuses on the use of acetyl moieties to modify a protein or small molecule, it is clear that cells can use many weak organic acids (e.g., short-, medium-, and long-chain mono- and dicarboxylic aliphatics and aromatics) to modify a large suite of targets. Acetylation of biomolecules has been studied for decades within the context of histone-dependent regulation of gene expression and antibiotic resistance. It was not until the early 2000s that the connection between metabolism, physiology, and protein acetylation was reported. This was the first instance of a metabolic enzyme (acetyl coenzyme A [acetyl-CoA] synthetase) whose activity was controlled by acetylation via a regulatory system responsive to physiological cues. The above-mentioned system was comprised of an acyltransferase and a partner deacylase. Given the reversibility of the acylation process, this system is also referred to as reversible lysine acylation (RLA). A wealth of information has been obtained since the discovery of RLA in prokaryotes, and we are just beginning to visualize the extent of the impact that this regulatory system has on cell function.
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- Kristy L Hentchel
- Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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Ryndak MB, Singh KK, Peng Z, Laal S. Transcriptional profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis replicating in type II alveolar epithelial cells. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0123745. [PMID: 25844539 PMCID: PMC4386821 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2014] [Accepted: 03/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) infection is initiated by the few bacilli inhaled into the alveolus. Studies in lungs of aerosol-infected mice provided evidence for extensive replication of M. tb in non-migrating, non-antigen-presenting cells in the alveoli during the first 2-3 weeks post-infection. Alveoli are lined by type II and type I alveolar epithelial cells (AEC) which outnumber alveolar macrophages by several hundred-fold. M. tb DNA and viable M. tb have been demonstrated in AEC and other non-macrophage cells of the kidney, liver, and spleen in autopsied tissues from latently-infected subjects from TB-endemic regions indicating systemic bacterial dissemination during primary infection. M. tb have also been demonstrated to replicate rapidly in A549 cells (type II AEC line) and acquire increased invasiveness for endothelial cells. Together, these results suggest that AEC could provide an important niche for bacterial expansion and development of a phenotype that promotes dissemination during primary infection. In the current studies, we have compared the transcriptional profile of M. tb replicating intracellularly in A549 cells to that of M. tb replicating in laboratory broth, by microarray analysis. Genes significantly upregulated during intracellular residence were consistent with an active, replicative, metabolic, and aerobic state, as were genes for tryptophan synthesis and for increased virulence (ESAT-6, and ESAT-6-like genes, esxH, esxJ, esxK, esxP, and esxW). In contrast, significant downregulation of the DevR (DosR) regulon and several hypoxia-induced genes was observed. Stress response genes were either not differentially expressed or were downregulated with the exception of the heat shock response and those induced by low pH. The intra-type II AEC M. tb transcriptome strongly suggests that AEC could provide a safe haven in which M. tb can expand dramatically and disseminate from the lung prior to the elicitation of adaptive immune responses.
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- Michelle B. Ryndak
- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, New York, United States of America
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Banerjee A, Adolph RS, Gopalakrishnapai J, Kleinboelting S, Emmerich C, Steegborn C, Visweswariah SS. A universal stress protein (USP) in mycobacteria binds cAMP. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:12731-43. [PMID: 25802331 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.644856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Mycobacteria are endowed with rich and diverse machinery for the synthesis, utilization, and degradation of cAMP. The actions of cyclic nucleotides are generally mediated by binding of cAMP to conserved and well characterized cyclic nucleotide binding domains or structurally distinct cGMP-specific and -regulated cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, adenylyl cyclase, and E. coli transcription factor FhlA (GAF) domain-containing proteins. Proteins with cyclic nucleotide binding and GAF domains can be identified in the genome of mycobacterial species, and some of them have been characterized. Here, we show that a significant fraction of intracellular cAMP is bound to protein in mycobacterial species, and by using affinity chromatography techniques, we identify specific universal stress proteins (USP) as abundantly expressed cAMP-binding proteins in slow growing as well as fast growing mycobacteria. We have characterized the biochemical and thermodynamic parameters for binding of cAMP, and we show that these USPs bind cAMP with a higher affinity than ATP, an established ligand for other USPs. We determined the structure of the USP MSMEG_3811 bound to cAMP, and we confirmed through structure-guided mutagenesis, the residues important for cAMP binding. This family of USPs is conserved in all mycobacteria, and we suggest that they serve as "sinks" for cAMP, making this second messenger available for downstream effectors as and when ATP levels are altered in the cell.
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- Arka Banerjee
- From the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India and
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- the Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- From the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India and
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- the Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- the Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- the Department of Biochemistry, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- From the Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India and
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Yao J, Shang K, Huang J, Ran W, Kashif J, Wang L. Overexpression of an ABC transporter and mutations of GyrA, GyrB, and ParC in contributing to high-level ciprofloxacin resistance in Streptococcus suis type 2. Biosci Trends 2014; 8:84-92. [PMID: 24815385 DOI: 10.5582/bst.8.84] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Streptococcus suis is a pathogen of zoonotic diseases. Moreover, the emergence of fluoro-quinolones (FQs) resistance in this pathogen has severe consequences for pigs and human health. In this study, the molecular mechanism of FQs resistance in S. suis type 2 (SS2) sensitive strains isolated from pigs was assessed after in vitro induction of resistance against the most frequently used FQs: ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, and enrofloxacin. Proteome analysis, sequencing and real-time RT-PCR results strongly established an overexpression of an ABC transporter protein (other than SatAB) and topoisomerase mutations in GyrA (Ser81Arg), GyrB (Glu354Lys), and ParC (Ser79Phe) in contributing to high level ciprofloxacin resistance in SS2. Due to the overexpression of the ABC transporter, intracellular ciprofloxacin concentrations were significantly lower in the resistant strains than those of sensitive strains after 20, 35, and 60 min exposures to ciprofloxacin (p < 0.05). It was concluded that improper use of FQs is one of the main causes of the emergence of this zoonotic pathogen as a multiresistant organism against commonly used antibiotics. The existence of an efflux-like protein is an incentive to find new drug targets to avoid the spread of FQs-resistant S. suis isolates in pigs and the human population.
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- Jie Yao
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University
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Shokry AM, Al-Karim S, Ramadan A, Gadallah N, Al Attas SG, Sabir JSM, Hassan SM, Madkour MA, Bressan R, Mahfouz M, Bahieldin A. Detection of a Usp-like gene in Calotropis procera plant from the de novo assembled genome contigs of the high-throughput sequencing dataset. C R Biol 2014; 337:86-94. [PMID: 24581802 DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2013.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 12/20/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The wild plant species Calotropis procera (C. procera) has many potential applications and beneficial uses in medicine, industry and ornamental field. It also represents an excellent source of genes for drought and salt tolerance. Genes encoding proteins that contain the conserved universal stress protein (USP) domain are known to provide organisms like bacteria, archaea, fungi, protozoa and plants with the ability to respond to a plethora of environmental stresses. However, information on the possible occurrence of Usp in C. procera is not available. In this study, we uncovered and characterized a one-class A Usp-like (UspA-like, NCBI accession No. KC954274) gene in this medicinal plant from the de novo assembled genome contigs of the high-throughput sequencing dataset. A number of GenBank accessions for Usp sequences were blasted with the recovered de novo assembled contigs. Homology modelling of the deduced amino acids (NCBI accession No. AGT02387) was further carried out using Swiss-Model, accessible via the EXPASY. Superimposition of C. procera USPA-like full sequence model on Thermus thermophilus USP UniProt protein (PDB accession No. Q5SJV7) was constructed using RasMol and Deep-View programs. The functional domains of the novel USPA-like amino acids sequence were identified from the NCBI conserved domain database (CDD) that provide insights into sequence structure/function relationships, as well as domain models imported from a number of external source databases (Pfam, SMART, COG, PRK, TIGRFAM).
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- Ahmed M Shokry
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute (AGERI), Agriculture Research Center (ARC), Giza, Egypt
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Genetics and Cytology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Dokki, Egypt
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Arid Lands Agricultural Research Institute, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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- School of Agriculture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), P.O. Box 80141, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Department of Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
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Pávková I, Brychta M, Strašková A, Schmidt M, Macela A, Stulík J. Comparative proteome profiling of host–pathogen interactions: insights into the adaptation mechanisms of Francisella tularensis in the host cell environment. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 97:10103-15. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5321-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2013] [Revised: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 10/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Attia AS, Cassat JE, Aranmolate SO, Zimmerman LJ, Boyd KL, Skaar EP. Analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus abscess proteome identifies antimicrobial host proteins and bacterial stress responses at the host-pathogen interface. Pathog Dis 2013; 69:36-48. [PMID: 23847107 DOI: 10.1111/2049-632x.12063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2013] [Revised: 06/26/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Abscesses are a hallmark of invasive staphylococcal infections and the site of a dynamic struggle between pathogen and host. However, the precise host and bacterial factors that contribute to abscess formation and maintenance have not been completely described. In this work, we define the Staphylococcus aureus abscess proteome from both wild-type and neutropenic mice to elucidate the host response to staphylococcal infection and uncover novel S. aureus virulence factors. Among the proteins identified, the mouse protein histone H4 was enriched in the abscesses of wild-type compared with neutropenic animals. Histone H4 inhibits staphylococcal growth in vitro demonstrating a role for this protein in the innate immune response to staphylococcal infection. These analyses also identified staphylococcal proteins within the abscess, including known virulence factors and proteins with previously unrecognized roles in pathogenesis. Within the latter group was the universal stress protein Usp2, which was enriched in kidney lesions from neutropenic mice and required for the S. aureus response to stringent stress. Taken together, these data describe the S. aureus abscess proteome and lay the foundation for the identification of contributors to innate immunity and bacterial pathogenesis.
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- Ahmed S Attia
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Jim Ayers Institute for Precancer Detection and Diagnosis, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.,Division of Animal Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
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Jain RK, Nayak AR, Husain AA, Panchbhai MS, Chandak N, Purohit HJ, Taori GM, Daginawala HF, Kashyap RS. Mycobacterial dormancy regulon protein Rv2623 as a novel biomarker for the diagnosis of latent and active tuberculous meningitis. DISEASE MARKERS 2013; 35:311-6. [PMID: 24167379 PMCID: PMC3787564 DOI: 10.1155/2013/309816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2013] [Revised: 08/28/2013] [Accepted: 08/29/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The present study was designed to investigate Rv2623 antigen, a major dormancy regulon protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) in CSF of suspected latent and active tuberculous meningitis (TBM) patients. A total of 100 CSF samples from TBM (n = 31), suspected latent TBM (n = 22), and suitable noninfectious control subjects (n = 47) were collected and evaluated for Rv2623 antigen level using ELISA protocol. A significantly high (P < 0.05) mean absorbance was observed in samples of suspected latent TBM and active TBM patients as compared to non-TBM control patients. However, no significant difference in Rv2623 level was observed between suspected latent TBM and TBM patients. Our preliminary findings suggest that Rv2623 may be useful as a potential biomarker for the diagnosis of the latent as well as active TBM infection. Futher evaluation of this biomarker in large number of samples is therefore needed to confirm the result.
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- Ruchika K. Jain
- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Environmental Genomics Unit, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur 440020, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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- Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Central India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bajaj Nagar, Nagpur 440010, India
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Tkaczuk KL, A Shumilin I, Chruszcz M, Evdokimova E, Savchenko A, Minor W. Structural and functional insight into the universal stress protein family. Evol Appl 2013; 6:434-49. [PMID: 23745136 PMCID: PMC3673472 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2012] [Accepted: 01/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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We present the crystal structures of two universal stress proteins (USP) from Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Nitrosomonas europaea in both apo- and ligand-bound forms. This work is the first complete synthesis of the structural properties of 26 USP available in the Protein Data Bank, over 75% of which were determined by structure genomics centers with no additional information provided. The results of bioinformatic analyses of all available USP structures and their sequence homologs revealed that these two new USP structures share overall structural similarity with structures of USPs previously determined. Clustering and cladogram analyses, however, show how they diverge from other members of the USP superfamily and show greater similarity to USPs from organisms inhabiting extreme environments. We compared them with other archaeal and bacterial USPs and discuss their similarities and differences in context of structure, sequential motifs, and potential function. We also attempted to group all analyzed USPs into families, so that assignment of the potential function to those with no experimental data available would be possible by extrapolation.
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- Karolina L Tkaczuk
- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA
- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA
- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA
- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South CarolinaColumbia, SC, USA
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- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada
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- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of VirginiaCharlottesville, VA, USA
- Midwest Center for Structural GenomicsUSA
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Proteomic analysis of survival of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 during carbon starvation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012; 78:6714-25. [PMID: 22798368 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01293-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rhodococcus jostii RHA1, a catabolically diverse soil actinomycete, is highly resistant to long-term nutrient starvation. After 2 years of carbon starvation, 10% of the bacterial culture remained viable. To study the molecular basis of such resistance, we monitored the abundance of about 1,600 cytosolic proteins during a 2-week period of carbon source (benzoate) starvation. Hierarchical cluster analysis elucidated 17 major protein clusters and showed that most changes occurred during transition to stationary phase. We identified 196 proteins. A decrease in benzoate catabolic enzymes correlated with benzoate depletion, as did induction of catabolism of alternative substrates, both endogenous (lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins) and exogenous. Thus, we detected a transient 5-fold abundance increase for phthalate, phthalate ester, biphenyl, and ethyl benzene catabolic enzymes, which coincided with at least 4-fold increases in phthalate and biphenyl catabolic activities. Stationary-phase cells demonstrated an ∼250-fold increase in carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CODH) concurrent with a 130-fold increase in CODH activity, suggesting a switch to CO or CO(2) utilization. We observed two phases of stress response: an initial response occurred during the transition to stationary phase, and a second response occurred after the cells had attained stationary phase. Although SigG synthesis was induced during starvation, a ΔsigG deletion mutant showed only minor changes in cell survival. Stationary-phase cells underwent reductive cell division. The extreme capacity of RHA1 to survive starvation does not appear to involve novel mechanisms; rather, it seems to be due to the coordinated combination of earlier-described mechanisms.
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Surface proteome of "Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis" during the early stages of macrophage infection. Infect Immun 2012; 80:1868-80. [PMID: 22392927 DOI: 10.1128/iai.06151-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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"Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis" is a robust and pervasive environmental bacterium that can cause opportunistic infections in humans. The bacterium overcomes the host immune response and is capable of surviving and replicating within host macrophages. Little is known about the bacterial mechanisms that facilitate these processes, but it can be expected that surface-exposed proteins play an important role. In this study, the selective biotinylation of surface-exposed proteins, streptavidin affinity purification, and shotgun mass spectrometry were used to characterize the surface-exposed proteome of M. avium subsp. hominissuis. This analysis detected more than 100 proteins exposed at the bacterial surface of M. avium subsp. hominissuis. Comparisons of surface-exposed proteins between conditions simulating early infection identified several groups of proteins whose presence on the bacterial surface was either constitutive or appeared to be unique to specific culture conditions. This proteomic profile facilitates an improved understanding of M. avium subsp. hominissuis and how it establishes infection. Additionally, surface-exposed proteins are excellent targets for the host adaptive immune system, and their identification can inform the development of novel treatments, diagnostic tools, and vaccines for mycobacterial disease.
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Genome-wide expression profiling of the response to linezolid in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Curr Microbiol 2012; 64:530-8. [PMID: 22388809 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0104-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2011] [Accepted: 02/03/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the most common causes of death in the world. The emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) strains has increased the importance of searching for alternative targets to develop new antimycobacterial drugs. Linezolid, the first of oxazolidinones, is active in vitro against M. tuberculosis, but the response mechanisms of M. tuberculosis to linezolid are still poorly understood. To reveal the possible mechanism of action of linezolid against M. tuberculosis, commercial oligonucleotide microarrays were used to analyze the genome-wide transcriptional changes triggered by treatment with subinhibitory concentrations of linezolid. Quantitative real-time RT-PCR was performed for selected genes to verify the microarray results. A total of 729 genes were found to be differentially regulated by linezolid. Among these, 318 genes were upregulated, and 411 genes were downregulated. A number of important genes were significantly regulated that are involved in various pathways, such as protein synthesis, sulfite metabolism, and genes involved in the cell envelope and virulence. This genome-wide transcriptomics approach produced the first insights into the response of M. tuberculosis to a linezolid challenge.
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Kim H, Goo E, Kang Y, Kim J, Hwang I. Regulation of universal stress protein genes by quorum sensing and RpoS in Burkholderia glumae. J Bacteriol 2012; 194:982-92. [PMID: 22178971 PMCID: PMC3294795 DOI: 10.1128/jb.06396-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2011] [Accepted: 12/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Burkholderia glumae possesses a quorum-sensing (QS) system mediated by N-octanoyl-homoserine lactone (C(8)-HSL) and its cognate receptor TofR. TofR/C(8)-HSL regulates the expression of a transcriptional regulator, qsmR. We identified one of the universal stress proteins (Usps), Usp2, from a genome-wide analysis of QS-dependent proteomes of B. glumae. In the whole genome of B. glumae BGR1, 11 usp genes (usp1 to usp11) were identified. Among the stress conditions tested, usp1 and usp2 mutants died 1 h after heat shock stress, whereas the other usp mutants and the wild-type strain survived for more than 3 h at 45°C. The expressions of all usp genes were positively regulated by QS, directly by QsmR. In addition, the expressions of usp1 and usp2 were dependent on RpoS in the stationary phase, as confirmed by the direct binding of RpoS-RNA holoenzyme to the promoter regions of the usp1 and usp2 genes. The expression of usp1 was upregulated upon a temperature shift from 37°C to either 28°C or 45°C, whereas the expression of usp2 was independent of temperature stress. This indicates that the regulation of usp1 and usp2 expression is different from what is known about Escherichia coli. Compared to the diverse roles of Usps in E. coli, Usps in B. glumae are dedicated to heat shock stress.
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- Hongsup Kim
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Biology, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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The proteome response of salt-resistant and salt-sensitive barley genotypes to long-term salinity stress. Mol Biol Rep 2012; 39:6387-97. [DOI: 10.1007/s11033-012-1460-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2011] [Accepted: 01/23/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Seifart Gomes C, Izar B, Pazan F, Mohamed W, Mraheil MA, Mukherjee K, Billion A, Aharonowitz Y, Chakraborty T, Hain T. Universal stress proteins are important for oxidative and acid stress resistance and growth of Listeria monocytogenes EGD-e in vitro and in vivo. PLoS One 2011; 6:e24965. [PMID: 21980369 PMCID: PMC3184099 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2011] [Accepted: 08/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pathogenic bacteria maintain a multifaceted apparatus to resist damage caused by external stimuli. As part of this, the universal stress protein A (UspA) and its homologues, initially discovered in Escherichia coli K-12 were shown to possess an important role in stress resistance and growth in several bacterial species. METHODS AND FINDINGS We conducted a study to assess the role of three homologous proteins containing the UspA domain in the facultative intracellular human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes under different stress conditions. The growth properties of three UspA deletion mutants (Δlmo0515, Δlmo1580 and Δlmo2673) were examined either following challenge with a sublethal concentration of hydrogen peroxide or under acidic conditions. We also examined their ability for intracellular survival within murine macrophages. Virulence and growth of usp mutants were further characterized in invertebrate and vertebrate infection models. Tolerance to acidic stress was clearly reduced in Δlmo1580 and Δlmo0515, while oxidative stress dramatically diminished growth in all mutants. Survival within macrophages was significantly decreased in Δlmo1580 and Δlmo2673 as compared to the wild-type strain. Viability of infected Galleria mellonella larvae was markedly higher when injected with Δlmo1580 or Δlmo2673 as compared to wild-type strain inoculation, indicating impaired virulence of bacteria lacking these usp genes. Finally, we observed severely restricted growth of all chromosomal deletion mutants in mice livers and spleens as compared to the load of wild-type bacteria following infection. CONCLUSION This work provides distinct evidence that universal stress proteins are strongly involved in listerial stress response and survival under both in vitro and in vivo growth conditions.
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
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Isokpehi RD, Mahmud O, Mbah AN, Simmons SS, Avelar L, Rajnarayanan RV, Udensi UK, Ayensu WK, Cohly HH, Brown SD, Dates CR, Hentz SD, Hughes SJ, Smith-McInnis DR, Patterson CO, Sims JN, Turner KT, Williams BS, Johnson MO, Adubi T, Mbuh JV, Anumudu CI, Adeoye GO, Thomas BN, Nashiru O, Oliveira G. Developmental Regulation of Genes Encoding Universal Stress Proteins in Schistosoma mansoni. GENE REGULATION AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2011; 5:61-74. [PMID: 22084571 PMCID: PMC3201111 DOI: 10.4137/grsb.s7491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The draft nuclear genome sequence of the snail-transmitted, dimorphic, parasitic, platyhelminth Schistosoma mansoni revealed eight genes encoding proteins that contain the Universal Stress Protein (USP) domain. Schistosoma mansoni is a causative agent of human schistosomiasis, a severe and debilitating Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) of poverty, which is endemic in at least 76 countries. The availability of the genome sequences of Schistosoma species presents opportunities for bioinformatics and genomics analyses of associated gene families that could be targets for understanding schistosomiasis ecology, intervention, prevention and control. Proteins with the USP domain are known to provide bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists and plants with the ability to respond to diverse environmental stresses. In this research investigation, the functional annotations of the USP genes and predicted nucleotide and protein sequences were initially verified. Subsequently, sequence clusters and distinctive features of the sequences were determined. A total of twelve ligand binding sites were predicted based on alignment to the ATP-binding universal stress protein from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. In addition, six USP sequences showed the presence of ATP-binding motif residues indicating that they may be regulated by ATP. Public domain gene expression data and RT-PCR assays confirmed that all the S. mansoni USP genes were transcribed in at least one of the developmental life cycle stages of the helminth. Six of these genes were up-regulated in the miracidium, a free-swimming stage that is critical for transmission to the snail intermediate host. It is possible that during the intra-snail stages, S. mansoni gene transcripts for universal stress proteins are low abundant and are induced to perform specialized functions triggered by environmental stressors such as oxidative stress due to hydrogen peroxide that is present in the snail hemocytes. This report serves to catalyze the formation of a network of researchers to understand the function and regulation of the universal stress proteins encoded in genomes of schistosomes and their snail intermediate hosts.
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- Raphael D. Isokpehi
- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Group, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ-MG, Av. Augusto de Lima, 1715, Barro Preto, CEP 30190-002, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Departamento de Genética, Av.Antônio Carlos, 6627, Pampulha, CEP 31270-901, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil
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- Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- Department of Biology, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Participant, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology/National Biotechnology Development Agency/West African Biotechnology Workshop Series, Ibadan Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Participant, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology/National Biotechnology Development Agency/West African Biotechnology Workshop Series, Ibadan Nigeria
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
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- Participant, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology/National Biotechnology Development Agency/West African Biotechnology Workshop Series, Ibadan Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Participant, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology/National Biotechnology Development Agency/West African Biotechnology Workshop Series, Ibadan Nigeria
- Department of Zoology, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) Abuja, Nigeria and West African Biotechnology Workshop Series (WABWS)
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- Genetics and Computational Biology Group, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ-MG, Av. Augusto de Lima, 1715, Barro Preto, CEP 30190-002, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil
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Schobert M, Tielen P. Contribution of oxygen-limiting conditions to persistent infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Future Microbiol 2010; 5:603-21. [PMID: 20353301 DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a versatile opportunistic human pathogen that is able to colonize a broad spectrum of different aquatic and soil habitats. In the environment and during pathogenesis, P. aeruginosa encounters oxygen-limited and anaerobic environments. Particularly during chronic infection of the cystic fibrosis lung, oxygen-limiting conditions seem to contribute to persistent infection. Oxygen limitation increases antibiotic tolerance, robust biofilms and alginate biosynthesis, which contribute to the persistence of this opportunistic pathogen. Despite the importance of anaerobic metabolism during persistent infection of P. aeruginosa, we are just beginning to understand the underlying regulatory network and the molecular basis of how anaerobic metabolism contributes to a persistent infection. A deeper understanding of the anaerobic physiology of P. aeruginosa will allow the identification of new antibiotic targets and new therapeutic strategies.
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- Max Schobert
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstr. 7, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany.
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Hingley-Wilson SM, Lougheed KEA, Ferguson K, Leiva S, Williams HD. Individual Mycobacterium tuberculosis universal stress protein homologues are dispensable in vitro. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2010; 90:236-44. [PMID: 20541977 PMCID: PMC2914252 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2010.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2009] [Revised: 03/16/2010] [Accepted: 03/31/2010] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis has 10 universal stress proteins, whose function is unknown. However, proteomic and transcriptomic analyses have shown that a number of usp genes are significantly upregulated under hypoxic conditions and in response to nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, as well as during M. tuberculosis infection of macrophage cell lines. Six of these USPs are part of the DosR regulon and this, along with their expression pattern and the phenotypes of usp mutants in other bacterial species, suggests a potential role in the persistence and/or intracellular survival of Mtb. Knock-out mutants of individual usp genes encoding the USPs Rv1996, Rv2005c, Rv2026c and Rv2028c were generated and their growth and survival under hypoxic and other stress conditions examined. Although the majority of usp genes are highly induced in hypoxic conditions, mutation did not affect the long term survival of Mtb under these conditions, or in response to a range of stress conditions chosen to represent the environmental onslaughts experienced by the bacillus during an infection, nor during infection of mouse and human - derived macrophage cell lines. The possibility remains that these USPs are functionally redundant in Mtb.
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- S M Hingley-Wilson
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Nambi S, Basu N, Visweswariah SS. cAMP-regulated protein lysine acetylases in mycobacteria. J Biol Chem 2010; 285:24313-23. [PMID: 20507997 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.118398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cyclic AMP synthesized by Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been shown to play a role in pathogenesis. However, the high levels of intracellular cAMP found in both pathogenic and non-pathogenic mycobacteria suggest that additional and important biological processes are regulated by cAMP in these organisms. We describe here the biochemical characterization of novel cAMP-binding proteins in M. smegmatis and M. tuberculosis (MSMEG_5458 and Rv0998, respectively) that contain a cyclic nucleotide binding domain fused to a domain that shows similarity to the GNAT family of acetyltransferases. We detect protein lysine acetylation in mycobacteria and identify a universal stress protein (USP) as a substrate of MSMEG_5458. Acetylation of a lysine residue in USP is regulated by cAMP, and using a strain deleted for MSMEG_5458, we show that USP is indeed an in vivo substrate for MSMEG_5458. The Rv0998 protein shows a strict cAMP-dependent acetylation of USP, despite a lower affinity for cAMP than MSMEG_5458. Thus, this report not only represents the first demonstration of protein lysine acetylation in mycobacteria but also describes a unique functional interplay between a cyclic nucleotide binding domain and a protein acetyltransferase.
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- Subhalaxmi Nambi
- Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Camarena L, Bruno V, Euskirchen G, Poggio S, Snyder M. Molecular mechanisms of ethanol-induced pathogenesis revealed by RNA-sequencing. PLoS Pathog 2010; 6:e1000834. [PMID: 20368969 PMCID: PMC2848557 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2009] [Accepted: 02/25/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a common pathogen whose recent resistance to drugs has emerged as a major health problem. Ethanol has been found to increase the virulence of A. baumannii in Dictyostelium discoideum and Caenorhabditis elegans models of infection. To better understand the causes of this effect, we examined the transcriptional profile of A. baumannii grown in the presence or absence of ethanol using RNA-Seq. Using the Illumina/Solexa platform, a total of 43,453,960 reads (35 nt) were obtained, of which 3,596,474 mapped uniquely to the genome. Our analysis revealed that ethanol induces the expression of 49 genes that belong to different functional categories. A strong induction was observed for genes encoding metabolic enzymes, indicating that ethanol is efficiently assimilated. In addition, we detected the induction of genes encoding stress proteins, including upsA, hsp90, groEL and lon as well as permeases, efflux pumps and a secreted phospholipase C. In stationary phase, ethanol strongly induced several genes involved with iron assimilation and a high-affinity phosphate transport system, indicating that A. baumannii makes a better use of the iron and phosphate resources in the medium when ethanol is used as a carbon source. To evaluate the role of phospholipase C (Plc1) in virulence, we generated and analyzed a deletion mutant for plc1. This strain exhibits a modest, but reproducible, reduction in the cytotoxic effect caused by A. baumannii on epithelial cells, suggesting that phospholipase C is important for virulence. Overall, our results indicate the power of applying RNA-Seq to identify key modulators of bacterial pathogenesis. We suggest that the effect of ethanol on the virulence of A. baumannii is multifactorial and includes a general stress response and other specific components such as phospholipase C. Acinetobacter baumannii has recently emerged as a frequent opportunistic pathogen. In the presence of ethanol A. baumannii increases its pathogenicity towards Dictyostelium discoideum and Caenorhabditis elegans, and community-acquired infections of A. baumannii are associated with alcoholism. Ethanol negatively affects both epithelial cells and alters the bacterial physiology. To explore the underlying basis for the increased virulence of A. baumannii in the presence of ethanol we examined the transcriptional profile of this bacterium using the novel methodology known as RNA-Seq. We show that ethanol induces the expression of a phospholipase C, which contributes to A. baumannii cytotoxicity. We also show that many proteins related to stress were induced and that ethanol is efficiently assimilated as a carbon source leading to induction in stationary phase of two different Fe uptake systems and a phosphate transport system. Interestingly, a previous study showed that a mutant in the high-affinity phosphate uptake system was avirulent. Our work contributes to the understanding of A. baumannii pathogenesis and provides a powerful approach that can be extended to other pathogenic bacteria.
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- Laura Camarena
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Inst. Inv. Biomédicas, México, D.F., México
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Department of Genetics, Stanford Univeristy School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
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Schweikhard ES, Kuhlmann SI, Kunte HJ, Grammann K, Ziegler CM. Structure and function of the universal stress protein TeaD and its role in regulating the ectoine transporter TeaABC of Halomonas elongata DSM 2581(T). Biochemistry 2010; 49:2194-204. [PMID: 20113006 DOI: 10.1021/bi9017522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The halophilic bacterium Halomonas elongata takes up the compatible solute ectoine via the osmoregulated TRAP transporter TeaABC. A fourth orf (teaD) is located adjacent to the teaABC locus that encodes a putative universal stress protein (USP). By RT-PCR experiments we proved a cotranscription of teaD along with teaABC. Deletion of teaD resulted in an enhanced uptake for ectoine by the transporter TeaABC and hence a negative activity regulation of TeaABC by TeaD. A transcriptional regulation via DNA binding could be excluded. ATP binding to native TeaD was shown by HPLC, and the crystal structure of TeaD was solved in complex with ATP to a resolution of 1.9 A by molecular replacement. TeaD forms a dimer-dimer complex with one ATP molecule bound to each monomer, which has a Rossmann-like alpha/beta overall fold. Our results reveal an ATP-dependent oligomerization of TeaD, which might have a functional role in the regulatory mechanism of TeaD. USP-encoding orfs, which are located adjacent to genes encoding for TeaABC homologues, could be identified in several other organisms, and their physiological role in balancing the internal cellular ectoine pool is discussed.
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- Eva S Schweikhard
- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Rodríguez-Alvarez M, Palomec-Nava ID, Mendoza-Hernández G, López-Vidal Y. The secretome of a recombinant BCG substrain reveals differences in hypothetical proteins. Vaccine 2010; 28:3997-4001. [PMID: 20153797 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.01.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2009] [Revised: 01/21/2010] [Accepted: 01/28/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Tuberculosis remains a major human health problem worldwide, and strategies for its prevention include the generation and characterization of new recombinant vaccines containing immunodominant antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By comparing the secretomes of wild-type Mycobacterium bovis and a PstS1-recombinant M. bovis BCG vaccine substrain (rBCG38), we identified six conserved hypothetical proteins (BCG2696, BCG1674, BCG0372, BCG0427, BCG2436c, and BCG3053) that are differentially expressed. Our findings will aid in the identification of highly immunogenic proteins present in rBCG.
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- Mauricio Rodríguez-Alvarez
- Programa de Inmunología Molecular Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Edificio de Investigación, 4 degrees piso, Av. Universidad #3000, Coyoacán, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico
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Strains of the East Asian (W/Beijing) lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are DosS/DosT-DosR two-component regulatory system natural mutants. J Bacteriol 2010; 192:2228-38. [PMID: 20154135 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01597-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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As part of our ongoing efforts to uncover the phenotypic consequences of genetic variability among clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, we previously reported that isolates of the "East Asian" or "W/Beijing" lineage constitutively overexpress the coordinately regulated transcriptional program known as the DosR regulon under standard in vitro conditions. This phenotype distinguishes the W/Beijing lineage from all other M. tuberculosis lineages, which normally induce expression of this regulon only once exposed to low oxygen or nitric oxide, both of which result in inhibition of bacterial respiration and replication. Transcription of the DosR regulon is controlled through a two-component regulatory system comprising the transcription factor DosR and two possible cognate histidine sensor kinases, DosS and DosT. Through sequence analysis of a carefully selected set of isolates representing each of the major M. tuberculosis lineages, we describe herein a naturally occurring frameshift mutation in the gene encoding the DosT sensor kinase for isolates of the most recently evolved W/Beijing sublineages. Intriguingly, the occurrence of the frameshift mutation correlates precisely with the appearance of the constitutive DosR regulon phenotype displayed by the same "modern" W/Beijing strains. However, complementation studies have revealed that the mutation in dosT alone is not directly responsible for the constitutive DosR regulon phenotype. Our data serve to highlight the evolutionary pressure that exists among distinct M. tuberculosis lineages to maintain tight control over DosR regulon expression.
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Drumm JE, Mi K, Bilder P, Sun M, Lim J, Bielefeldt-Ohmann H, Basaraba R, So M, Zhu G, Tufariello JM, Izzo AA, Orme IM, Almo SC, Leyh TS, Chan J. Mycobacterium tuberculosis universal stress protein Rv2623 regulates bacillary growth by ATP-Binding: requirement for establishing chronic persistent infection. PLoS Pathog 2009; 5:e1000460. [PMID: 19478878 PMCID: PMC2682197 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2008] [Accepted: 04/30/2009] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Tuberculous latency and reactivation play a significant role in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, yet the mechanisms that regulate these processes remain unclear. The Mycobacterium tuberculosisuniversal stress protein (USP) homolog, rv2623, is among the most highly induced genes when the tubercle bacillus is subjected to hypoxia and nitrosative stress, conditions thought to promote latency. Induction of rv2623 also occurs when M. tuberculosis encounters conditions associated with growth arrest, such as the intracellular milieu of macrophages and in the lungs of mice with chronic tuberculosis. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that Rv2623 regulates tuberculosis latency. We observed that an Rv2623-deficient mutant fails to establish chronic tuberculous infection in guinea pigs and mice, exhibiting a hypervirulence phenotype associated with increased bacterial burden and mortality. Consistent with this in vivo growth-regulatory role, constitutive overexpression of rv2623 attenuates mycobacterial growth in vitro. Biochemical analysis of purified Rv2623 suggested that this mycobacterial USP binds ATP, and the 2.9-Å-resolution crystal structure revealed that Rv2623 engages ATP in a novel nucleotide-binding pocket. Structure-guided mutagenesis yielded Rv2623 mutants with reduced ATP-binding capacity. Analysis of mycobacteria overexpressing these mutants revealed that the in vitro growth-inhibitory property of Rv2623 correlates with its ability to bind ATP. Together, the results indicate that i) M. tuberculosis Rv2623 regulates mycobacterial growth in vitro and in vivo, and ii) Rv2623 is required for the entry of the tubercle bacillus into the chronic phase of infection in the host; in addition, iii) Rv2623 binds ATP; and iv) the growth-regulatory attribute of this USP is dependent on its ATP-binding activity. We propose that Rv2623 may function as an ATP-dependent signaling intermediate in a pathway that promotes persistent infection. Mycobacterium tuberculosis poses serious threats to public health worldwide. The ability of this pathogen to establish in the host a clinically silent, persistent latent infection that can subsequently reactivate to cause diseases constitutes a major challenge in controlling tuberculosis. Our study showed that an M. tuberculosis mutant that is deficient in a universal stress protein (USP) designated Rv2623 fails to establish a chronic persistent infection in animal hosts. The mutant strain exhibits a hypervirulent phenotype as assessed by increased bacillary growth, pathology, and mortality in infected animals relative to the parental strain. Consistent with this in vivo growth-regulating attribute, we demonstrated that Rv2623, when expressed in mycobacteria at levels higher than that of the wild-type strain, retards bacterial growth in vitro. Using biochemical and biophysical analyses, including the Rv2623 crystal structure, we showed that this USP binds to ATP within a novel ATP-binding pocket. Through targeted mutagenesis studies, we further determined that the ability of Rv2623 to regulate bacillary growth is dependent on its ATP-binding capacity. Our data strongly suggest Rv2623 as a critical component that regulates the entry of M. tuberculosis into a chronic persistent growth phase, and therefore provide valuable insight into tuberculous dormancy and uncover new opportunities for the development of novel anti-tuberculous therapies.
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- Joshua E. Drumm
- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
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Provvedi R, Boldrin F, Falciani F, Palù G, Manganelli R. Global transcriptional response to vancomycin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2009; 155:1093-1102. [PMID: 19332811 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.024802-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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In order to gain additional understanding of the physiological mechanisms used by bacteria to maintain surface homeostasis and to identify potential targets for new antibacterial drugs, we analysed the variation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptional profile in response to inhibitory and subinhibitory concentrations of vancomycin. Our analysis identified 153 genes differentially regulated after exposing bacteria to a concentration of the drug ten times higher than the MIC, and 141 genes differentially expressed when bacteria were growing in a concentration of the drug eightfold lower than the MIC. Hierarchical clustering analysis indicated that the response to these different conditions is different, although with some overlap. This approach allowed us to identify several genes whose products could be involved in the protection from antibiotic stress targeting the envelope and help to confer the basal level of M. tuberculosis resistance to antibacterial drugs, such as Rv2623 (UspA-like), Rv0116c, PE20-PPE31, PspA and proteins related to toxin-antitoxin systems. Moreover, we also demonstrated that the alternative sigma factor sigma(E) confers basal resistance to vancomycin, once again underlining its importance in the physiology of the mycobacterial surface stress response.
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- Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, 35100 Padua, Italy
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, 35100 Padua, Italy
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- Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, 35100 Padua, Italy
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Zvi A, Ariel N, Fulkerson J, Sadoff JC, Shafferman A. Whole genome identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine candidates by comprehensive data mining and bioinformatic analyses. BMC Med Genomics 2008; 1:18. [PMID: 18505592 PMCID: PMC2442614 DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-1-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/28/2008] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), infects ~8 million annually culminating in ~2 million deaths. Moreover, about one third of the population is latently infected, 10% of which develop disease during lifetime. Current approved prophylactic TB vaccines (BCG and derivatives thereof) are of variable efficiency in adult protection against pulmonary TB (0%–80%), and directed essentially against early phase infection. Methods A genome-scale dataset was constructed by analyzing published data of: (1) global gene expression studies under conditions which simulate intra-macrophage stress, dormancy, persistence and/or reactivation; (2) cellular and humoral immunity, and vaccine potential. This information was compiled along with revised annotation/bioinformatic characterization of selected gene products and in silico mapping of T-cell epitopes. Protocols for scoring, ranking and prioritization of the antigens were developed and applied. Results Cross-matching of literature and in silico-derived data, in conjunction with the prioritization scheme and biological rationale, allowed for selection of 189 putative vaccine candidates from the entire genome. Within the 189 set, the relative distribution of antigens in 3 functional categories differs significantly from their distribution in the whole genome, with reduction in the Conserved hypothetical category (due to improved annotation) and enrichment in Lipid and in Virulence categories. Other prominent representatives in the 189 set are the PE/PPE proteins; iron sequestration, nitroreductases and proteases, all within the Intermediary metabolism and respiration category; ESX secretion systems, resuscitation promoting factors and lipoproteins, all within the Cell wall category. Application of a ranking scheme based on qualitative and quantitative scores, resulted in a list of 45 best-scoring antigens, of which: 74% belong to the dormancy/reactivation/resuscitation classes; 30% belong to the Cell wall category; 13% are classical vaccine candidates; 9% are categorized Conserved hypotheticals, all potentially very potent T-cell antigens. Conclusion The comprehensive literature and in silico-based analyses allowed for the selection of a repertoire of 189 vaccine candidates, out of the whole-genome 3989 ORF products. This repertoire, which was ranked to generate a list of 45 top-hits antigens, is a platform for selection of genes covering all stages of M. tuberculosis infection, to be incorporated in rBCG or subunit-based vaccines.
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- Anat Zvi
- Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona 74100, Israel.
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Nachin L, Brive L, Persson KC, Svensson P, Nyström T. Heterodimer formation within universal stress protein classes revealed by an in silico and experimental approach. J Mol Biol 2008; 380:340-50. [PMID: 18514734 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.04.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2007] [Revised: 04/09/2008] [Accepted: 04/30/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Universal stress proteins (Usps) are found in all kingdoms of life and can be divided into four classes by phylogenic analysis. According to available structures, Usps exist as homodimers, and genetic studies show that their cellular assignments are extensive, including functions relating to stress resistance, carbon metabolism, cellular adhesion, motility, and bacterial virulence. We approached the question of how Usps can achieve such a variety of functions in a cell by using a new procedure for statistical analysis of multiple sequence alignments, based on physicochemically related values for each amino acid residue of Usp dimer interfaces. The results predicted that Usp proteins within a class may, in addition to forming homodimers, be able to form heterodimers. Using Escherichia coli Usps as model proteins, we confirmed the existence of such interactions. We especially focused on class I UspA and UspC and demonstrated that they are able to form homo- and heterodimers in vitro and in vivo. We suggest that this ability to form both homo- and heterodimers may allow for an expansion of the functional repertoire of Usps and explains why organisms usually contain multiple usp paralogues.
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- Laurence Nachin
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Göteborg University, Box 462, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden.
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Murphy DJ, Brown JR. Identification of gene targets against dormant phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. BMC Infect Dis 2007; 7:84. [PMID: 17655757 PMCID: PMC1950094 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-84] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2007] [Accepted: 07/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), infects approximately 2 billion people worldwide and is the leading cause of mortality due to infectious disease. Current TB therapy involves a regimen of four antibiotics taken over a six month period. Patient compliance, cost of drugs and increasing incidence of drug resistant M. tuberculosis strains have added urgency to the development of novel TB therapies. Eradication of TB is affected by the ability of the bacterium to survive up to decades in a dormant state primarily in hypoxic granulomas in the lung and to cause recurrent infections. Methods The availability of M. tuberculosis genome-wide DNA microarrays has lead to the publication of several gene expression studies under simulated dormancy conditions. However, no single model best replicates the conditions of human pathogenicity. In order to identify novel TB drug targets, we performed a meta-analysis of multiple published datasets from gene expression DNA microarray experiments that modeled infection leading to and including the dormant state, along with data from genome-wide insertional mutagenesis that examined gene essentiality. Results Based on the analysis of these data sets following normalization, several genome wide trends were identified and used to guide the selection of targets for therapeutic development. The trends included the significant up-regulation of genes controlled by devR, down-regulation of protein and ATP synthesis, and the adaptation of two-carbon metabolism to the hypoxic and nutrient limited environment of the granuloma. Promising targets for drug discovery were several regulatory elements (devR/devS, relA, mprAB), enzymes involved in redox balance and respiration, sulfur transport and fixation, pantothenate, isoprene, and NAD biosynthesis. The advantages and liabilities of each target are discussed in the context of enzymology, bacterial pathways, target tractability, and drug development. Conclusion Based on our bioinformatics analysis and additional discussion of in-depth biological rationale, several novel anti-TB targets have been proposed as potential opportunities to improve present therapeutic treatments for this disease.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dennis J Murphy
- Informatics, Molecular Discovery Research, GlaxoSmithKline, 1250 South Collegeville Road, UP1345, PO Box 5089, Collegeville, PA 19426-0989, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, UW2523, Cardiovascular and Urogenital CEDD, GlaxoSmithKline, 709 Swedeland Road, Box 1539, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA
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- Informatics, Molecular Discovery Research, GlaxoSmithKline, 1250 South Collegeville Road, UP1345, PO Box 5089, Collegeville, PA 19426-0989, USA
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Persson O, Valadi A, Nyström T, Farewell A. Metabolic control of the Escherichia coli universal stress protein response through fructose-6-phosphate. Mol Microbiol 2007; 65:968-78. [PMID: 17640273 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05838.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The universal stress protein (Usp) superfamily encompasses a conserved group of proteins involved in stress resistance, adaptation to energy deficiency, cell motility and adhesion, and is found in all kingdoms of life. The paradigm usp gene, uspA, of Escherichia coli is transcriptionally activated by a large variety of stresses, and the alarmone ppGpp is required for this activation. Here, we show that the uspA gene is also regulated by an intermediate of the glycolytic/gluconeogenic pathways. Specifically, mutations and conditions resulting in fructose-6-phosphate (F-6-P) accumulation elicit superinduction of uspA upon carbon starvation, whereas genetic manipulations reducing the pool size of F-6-P have the opposite effect. This metabolic control of uspA does not act via ppGpp. Other, but not all, usp genes of the usp superfamily are similarly affected by alterations in F-6-P levels. We suggest that alterations in the pool size of phosphorylated sugars of the upper glycolytic pathway may ensure accumulation of required survival proteins preceding the complete depletion of the external carbon source. Indeed, we show that uspA is, in fact, induced before the carbon source is depleted from the medium.
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- Orjan Persson
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology-Microbiology, Göteborg University, Box 462, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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