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Das S, Sreevidya VS, Udvadia AJ, Gyaneshwar P. Dopamine-induced sulfatase and its regulator are required for Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pathogenesis. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2019; 165:302-310. [PMID: 30648943 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Catecholamine hormones enhance the virulence of pathogenic bacteria. Studies in the 1980s made intriguing observations that catecholamines were required for induction of sulfatase activity in many enteric pathogens, including Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. In this report, we show that STM3122 and STM3124, part of horizontally acquired Salmonella pathogenesis island 13, encode a catecholamine-induced sulfatase and its regulator, respectively. Induction of sulfatase activity was independent of the well-studied QseBC and QseEF two-component regulatory systems. S. Typhimurium 14028S mutants lacking STM3122 or STM3124 showed reduced virulence in zebrafish. Because catecholamines are inactivated by sulfation in the mammalian gut, S. Typhimurium could utilize CA-induced sulfatase to access free catecholamines for growth and virulence.
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- Seema Das
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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Characterization of an acid-inducible sulfatase in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:2092-5. [PMID: 23315743 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03707-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Sulfatases of enteric bacteria can provide access to heavily sulfated mucosal glycans. In this study, we show that aslA (STM0084) of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 encodes a sulfatase that requires mildly acidic pH for its expression and activity. AslA is not regulated by sulfur compounds or tyramine but requires the EnvZ-OmpR and PhoPQ regulatory systems, which play an important role in pathogenesis.
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Kiziak C, Conradt D, Stolz A, Mattes R, Klein J. Nitrilase from Pseudomonas fluorescens EBC191: cloning and heterologous expression of the gene and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2005; 151:3639-3648. [PMID: 16272385 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28246-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The gene encoding an enantioselective arylacetonitrilase was identified on a 3.8 kb DNA fragment from the genomic DNA of Pseudomonas fluorescens EBC191. The gene was isolated, sequenced and cloned into the L-rhamnose-inducible expression vector pJOE2775. The nitrilase was produced in large quantities and purified as a histidine-tagged enzyme from crude extracts of L-rhamnose-induced cells of Escherichia coli JM109. The purified nitrilase was significantly stabilized during storage by the addition of 1 M ammonium sulfate. The temperature optimum (50 degrees C), pH optimum (pH 6.5), and specific activity of the recombinant nitrilase were similar to those of the native enzyme from P. fluorescens EBC191. The enzyme hydrolysed various phenylacetonitriles with different substituents in the 2-position and also heterocyclic and bicyclic arylacetonitriles to the corresponding carboxylic acids. The conversion of most arylacetonitriles was accompanied by the formation of different amounts of amides as by-products. The relative amounts of amides formed from different nitriles increased with an increasing negative inductive effect of the substituent in the 2-position. The acids and amides that were formed from chiral nitriles demonstrated in most cases opposite enantiomeric excesses. Thus mandelonitrile was converted by the nitrilase preferentially to R-mandelic acid and S-mandelic acid amide. The nitrilase gene is physically linked in the genome of P. fluorescens with genes encoding the degradative pathway for mandelic acid. This might suggest a natural function of the nitrilase in the degradation of mandelonitrile or similar naturally occurring hydroxynitriles.
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- Christoph Kiziak
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
- Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Universität Stuttgart, Allmandring 31, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Michael E Wall
- Computer and Computational Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA.
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Monterrubio R, Baldoma L, Obradors N, Aguilar J, Badia J. A common regulator for the operons encoding the enzymes involved in D-galactarate, D-glucarate, and D-glycerate utilization in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:2672-4. [PMID: 10762278 PMCID: PMC111340 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.9.2672-2674.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Genes for D-galactarate (gar) and D-glucarate (gud) metabolism in Escherichia coli are organized in three transcriptional units: garD, garPLRK, and gudPD. Two observations suggested a common regulator for the three operons. (i) Their expression was triggered by D-galactarate, D-glucarate, and D-glycerate. (ii) Metabolism of the three compounds was impaired by a single Tn5 insertion mapped in the yaeG gene (proposed name, sdaR), outside the D-galactarate and D-glucarate systems. Expression of the sdaR gene is autogenously regulated.
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- R Monterrubio
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Szameit C, Miech C, Balleininger M, Schmidt B, von Figura K, Dierks T. The iron sulfur protein AtsB is required for posttranslational formation of formylglycine in the Klebsiella sulfatase. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:15375-81. [PMID: 10336424 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.22.15375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The catalytic residue of eukaryotic and prokaryotic sulfatases is a alpha-formylglycine. In the sulfatase of Klebsiella pneumoniae the formylglycine is generated by posttranslational oxidation of serine 72. We cloned the atsBA operon of K. pneumoniae and found that the sulfatase was expressed in inactive form in Escherichia coli transformed with the structural gene (atsA). Coexpression of the atsB gene, however, led to production of high sulfatase activity, indicating that the atsB gene product plays a posttranslational role that is essential for the sulfatase to gain its catalytic activity. This was verified after purification of the sulfatase from the periplasm of the cells. Peptide analysis of the protein expressed in the presence of AtsB revealed that half of the polypeptides carried the formylglycine at position 72, while the remaining polypeptides carried the encoded serine. The inactive sulfatase expressed in the absence of AtsB carried exclusively serine 72, demonstrating that the atsB gene is required for formylglycine modification. This gene encodes a 395-amino acid residue iron sulfur protein that has a cytosolic localization and is supposed to directly or indirectly catalyze the oxidation of the serine to formylglycine.
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- C Szameit
- Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie, Abteilung Biochemie II, Universität Göttingen, Gosslerstrasse 12d, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Brito B, Marenda M, Barberis P, Boucher C, Genin S. prhJ and hrpG, two new components of the plant signal-dependent regulatory cascade controlled by PrhA in Ralstonia solanacearum. Mol Microbiol 1999; 31:237-51. [PMID: 9987125 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01165.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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hrp gene expression in the phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum GMI1000 is induced through the HrpB regulator in minimal medium and upon co-culture with plant cell suspensions. The putative outer membrane protein PrhA is specifically involved in hrp gene activation in the presence of plant cells and has been proposed to be a receptor of a plant-dependent signal transduction pathway. Here, we report on the identification of two regulatory genes, hrpG and prhJ, located at the right-hand end of the hrp gene cluster, that are required for full pathogenicity. HrpG belongs to the OmpR subclass of two-component response regulators and is homologous to HrpG, the activator of hrp genes in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. PrhJ is a novel hrp regulatory protein, sharing homology with the LuxR/UhpA family of transcriptional activators. As for HrpG of X. c. pv. vesicatoria, HrpG is required for hrp gene expression in minimal medium, but, in addition, we show that it also controls hrpB gene activation upon co-culture with Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato cell suspensions. In contrast, PrhJ is specifically involved in hrp gene expression in the presence of plant cells. hrpG and prhJ gene transcription is plant cell inducible through the PrhA-dependent pathway. From these results, we propose a regulatory cascade in which plant cell signal(s) sensed by PrhA are transduced to the prhJ gene, whose predicted product controls hrpG gene expression. HrpG then activates the hrpB regulatory gene, and, subsequently, the remaining hrp transcriptional units in all known inducing conditions.
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- B Brito
- Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire des Relations Plantes-Microorganismes, INRA-CNRS, Castanet-Tolosan, France
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Cox ARJ, Thomson NR, Bycroft B, Stewart GSAB, Williams P, Salmond GPC. A pheromone-independent CarR protein controls carbapenem antibiotic synthesis in the opportunistic human pathogen Serratia marcescens. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 1):201-209. [PMID: 9467912 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-1-201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Strain ATCC 39006 of Serratia marcescens makes the same carbapenem, (5R)-carbapen-2-em-3-carboxylic acid (Car), as the Erwinia carotovora strain GS101. Unlike E. carotovora, where the onset of production occurs in the late-exponential phase of growth in response to the accumulation of the small diffusible pheromone N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (OHHL), in S. marcescens carbapenem is produced throughout the growth phase and does not appear to involve any diffusible pheromone molecule. Two cosmids capable of restoring antibiotic production in E. carotovora group I carbapenem mutants were isolated from an S. marcescens gene library. These cosmids were shown to contain a homologue of the E. carotovora carR gene, encoding a CarR protein with homology to the LuxR family of transcriptional regulators. The S. marcescens carR was subcloned and shown to be capable of complementing in trans, in the absence of OHHL, an E. carotovora carR carI double mutant, releasing the heterologous E. carotovora host from pheromone dependence for carbapenem production. The apparent OHHL-independence of the S. marcescens CarR explains the constitutive nature of carbapenem production in this strain of S. marcescens.
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- A R J Cox
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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- Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Sciences, University of Nottingham Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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Yamashita M, Azakami H, Yokoro N, Roh JH, Suzuki H, Kumagai H, Murooka Y. maoB, a gene that encodes a positive regulator of the monoamine oxidase gene (maoA) in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:2941-7. [PMID: 8631685 PMCID: PMC178032 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.10.2941-2947.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The structural gene for copper- and topa quinone-containing monoamine oxidase (maoA) and an unknown amine oxidase gene have been located at 30.9 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Deletion analysis showed that the unknown gene was located within a 1.1-kb cloned fragment adjacent to the maoA gene. The nucleotide sequence of this fragment was determined, and a single open reading frame (maoB) consisting of 903 bp was found. The gene encoded a polypeptide with a predicted molecular mass of 34,619 Da which was correlated with the migration on a sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel. The predicted amino acid sequence of the MaoB protein was identical to the NH2-terminal amino acid sequence derived by Edman degradation of the protein synthesized under the self-promoter. No homology of the nucleotide sequence of maoB to the sequences of any reported genes was found. However, the amino acid sequence of MaoB showed a high level of homology with respect to the helix-turn-helix motif of the AraC family in its C terminus. The homology search and disruption of maoA on the chromosome led to the conclusion that MaoB is a transcriptional activator of maoA but not an amine oxidase. The consensus sequence of the cyclic AMP-cyclic AMP receptor protein complex binding domain was adjacent to the putative promoter for the maoB gene. By use of lac gene fusions with the maoA and maoB genes, we showed that the maoA gene is regulated by tyramine and MaoB and that the expression of the maoB gene is subject to catabolite repression. Thus, it seems likely that tyramine and the MaoB protein activate the transcription of maoA by binding to the regulatory region of the maoA gene.
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- M Yamashita
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan
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Azakami H, Sugino H, Iwata N, Yokoro N, Yamashita M, Murooka Y. A Klebsiella aerogenes moaEF operon is controlled by the positive MoaR regulator of the monoamine regulon. Gene 1995; 164:89-94. [PMID: 7590328 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00400-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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A 30-kDa protein accumulated upon induction by a high concentration of tyramine or dopamine in cells of Klebsiella aerogenes (Ka). These cells carried a plasmid (pAS123) that included the arylsulfatase operon (atsBA). Deletion analysis showed that the region essential for induction of the 30-kDa protein was located within a 2.0-kb cloned segment downstream of the atsBA operon. The nucleotide (nt) sequence of the 2.0-kb fragment revealed two open reading frames (ORFs), moaE and moaF. Transcription from a putative promoter of moaE was induced by the addition of tyramine, and the moaF gene was co-transcribed from this monoamine-inducible Ka promoter. The deduced Ka MoaE protein was homologous to insect-type alcohol dehydrogenase. The sequence of the 18 amino acids from the N-terminus of the purified 30-kDa protein agreed with that deduced from the nt sequence of moaF. Using a Ka strain with a mutant moaR gene, we found that MoaR, that acts as the positive regulator of the monoamine regulon, also acts as the positive regulator of the moaEF operon.
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- H Azakami
- Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Japan
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Beil S, Kehrli H, James P, Staudenmann W, Cook AM, Leisinger T, Kertesz MA. Purification and characterization of the arylsulfatase synthesized by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO during growth in sulfate-free medium and cloning of the arylsulfatase gene (atsA). EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1995; 229:385-94. [PMID: 7744061 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1995.0385k.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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An arylsulfatase (EC 3.1.6.1) was extracted from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and purified 2700-fold to homogeneity. Synthesis of this enzyme was repressed when sulfate, cysteine or thiocyanate was supplied as the sole sulfur source for growth, but derepressed with all other sulfur sources tested. The apparent molecular mass was determined by SDS/PAGE to be 57 kDa, and the enzyme was presumed to be a monomer after gel filtration chromatography. The arylsulfatase showed maximal activity at 57 degrees C and pH 8.9, and a Km of 105 microM for 4-nitrocatecholsulfate. Despite previous reports that both inducible and derepressible forms of arylsulfatase exist in P. aeruginosa, we found only one enzyme under a variety of growth conditions: a sulfate-repressed enzyme with a native isoelectric point of 4.76. The gene encoding this enzyme (atsA) was isolated by complementation of a Tn5-751 mutant of P. aeruginosa PAO1. Sequencing revealed a 1602-bp reading frame encoding a 534-amino-acid protein with sequence similarity to known bacterial and eukaryotic arylsulfatases (30-40% and 25-30% identity, respectively), but lacking the signal peptide which is present in all known sequences. The lack of this signal peptide suggests that the P. aeruginosa arylsulfatase is neither periplasmic nor membrane-associated, unlike other known arylsulfatases. The atsA gene was located at 15-17' on the P. aeruginosa genome by Southern hybridization. Only a single copy was observed under moderate stringency conditions.
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- S Beil
- Institute of Microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich
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Nomura N, Choi KP, Yamashita M, Yamamoto H, Murooka Y. Genetic modification of the Streptomyces cholesterol oxidase gene for expression in Escherichia coli and development of promoter-probe vectors for use in enteric bacteria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/0922-338x(95)91253-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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