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Yoo W, Shealy NG, Zieba JK, Torres TP, Baltagulov M, Thomas JD, Shelton CD, McGovern AG, Foegeding NJ, Olsan EE, Byndloss MX. Salmonella Typhimurium expansion in the inflamed murine gut is dependent on aspartate derived from ROS-mediated microbiota lysis. Cell Host Microbe 2024; 32:887-899.e6. [PMID: 38806059 PMCID: PMC11189616 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/30/2024]
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Inflammation boosts the availability of electron acceptors in the intestinal lumen, creating a favorable niche for pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae. However, the mechanisms linking intestinal inflammation-mediated changes in luminal metabolites and pathogen expansion remain unclear. Here, we show that mucosal inflammation induced by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Tm) infection increases intestinal levels of the amino acid aspartate. S. Tm used aspartate-ammonia lyase (aspA)-dependent fumarate respiration for growth in the murine gut only during inflammation. AspA-dependent growth advantage was abolished in the gut of germ-free mice and restored in gnotobiotic mice colonized with members of the classes Bacteroidia and Clostridia. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced during the host response caused lysis of commensal microbes, resulting in the release of microbiota-derived aspartate that was used by S. Tm, in concert with nitrate-dependent anaerobic respiration, to outcompete commensal Enterobacteriaceae. Our findings demonstrate the role of microbiota-derived amino acids in driving respiration-dependent S. Tm expansion during colitis.
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- Woongjae Yoo
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Department of Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
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Schubert C, Unden G. Regulation of Aerobic Succinate Transporter dctA of E. coli by cAMP-CRP, DcuS-DcuR, and EIIAGlc: Succinate as a Carbon Substrate and Signaling Molecule. Microb Physiol 2024; 34:108-120. [PMID: 38432210 DOI: 10.1159/000538095] [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: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/24/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024]
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INTRODUCTION C4-dicarboxylates (C4-DC) have emerged as significant growth substrates and signaling molecules for various Enterobacteriaceae during their colonization of mammalian hosts. Particularly noteworthy is the essential role of fumarate respiration during colonization of pathogenic bacteria. To investigate the regulation of aerobic C4-DC metabolism, the study explored the transcriptional control of the main aerobic C4-DC transporter, dctA, under different carbohydrate conditions. In addition, mutants related to carbon catabolite repression (CCR) and C4-DC regulation (DcuS-DcuR) were examined to better understand the regulatory integration of aerobic C4-DC metabolism into CCR. For initial insight into posttranslational regulation, the interaction between the aerobic C4-DC transporter DctA and EIIAGlc from the glucose-specific phosphotransferase system was investigated. METHODS The expression of dctA was characterized in the presence of various carbohydrates and regulatory mutants affecting CCR. This was accomplished by fusing the dctA promoter (PdctA) to the lacZ reporter gene. Additionally, the interaction between DctA and EIIAGlc of the glucose-specific phosphotransferase system was examined in vivo using a bacterial two-hybrid system. RESULTS The dctA promoter region contains a class I cAMP-CRP-binding site at position -81.5 and a DcuR-binding site at position -105.5. DcuR, the response regulator of the C4-DC-activated DcuS-DcuR two-component system, and cAMP-CRP stimulate dctA expression. The expression of dctA is subject to the influence of various carbohydrates via cAMP-CRP, which differently modulate cAMP levels. Here we show that EIIAGlc of the glucose-specific phosphotransferase system strongly interacts with DctA, potentially resulting in the exclusion of C4-DCs when preferred carbon substrates, such as sugars, are present. In contrast to the classical inducer exclusion known for lactose permease LacY, inhibition of C4-DC uptake into the cytoplasm affects only its role as a substrate, but not as an inducer since DcuS detects C4-DCs in the periplasmic space ("substrate exclusion"). The work shows an interplay between cAMP-CRP and the DcuS-DcuR regulatory system for the regulation of dctA at both transcriptional and posttranslational levels. CONCLUSION The study highlights a hierarchical interplay between global (cAMP-CRP) and specific (DcuS-DcuR) regulation of dctA at the transcriptional and posttranslational levels. The integration of global and specific transcriptional regulation of dctA, along with the influence of EIIAGlc on DctA, fine-tunes C4-DC catabolism in response to the availability of other preferred carbon sources. It attributes DctA a central role in the control of aerobic C4-DC catabolism and suggests a new role to EIIAGlc on transporters (control of substrate uptake by substrate exclusion).
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- Christopher Schubert
- Institute for Molecular Physiology (IMP), Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Molecular Physiology (IMP), Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany,
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The Contribution of Nitrate Dissimilation to Nitrate Consumption in narG- and napA-Containing Nitrate Reducers with Various Oxygen and Nitrate Supplies. Microbiol Spectr 2022; 10:e0069522. [PMID: 36453888 PMCID: PMC9769761 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00695-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Nitrate reducers containing narG or napA play an important role in the nitrogen cycle, but little is known about their functional differentiations in relation to environmental changes. In this study, three types of nitrate reducers in the genus Pseudomonas, including strains containing narG (G type), napA (A type) and both narG and napA (GA type), were selected to explore their functional performances under varied nitrate and oxygen concentrations. Their growth characteristics, nitrate consumption, and dissimilatory nitrate-reducing activity were investigated. Growth and nitrate consumption of all three types of strains were generally promoted with increasing oxygen and nitrate concentrations. However, their dissimilatory nitrate-reducing activities were restricted by oxygen supply. When supplied with 0.25 mM KNO3, A-type strains showed a higher growth rate but lower activity of dissimilatory nitrate reduction (DNR) than G-type strains, regardless of oxygen concentration. However, when nitrate concentration increased to 0.75 mM or 5 mM, G-type strains displayed stronger capability of nitrate consumption and DNR than A-type strains under anaerobic conditions, whereas under oxygenated conditions, A-type strains exhibited higher growth and nitrate consumption but weaker DNR than G-type strains. The GA-type strains appeared similar to G type under anaerobic conditions but performed more similarly to A type in aerobic environments. In summary, the nitrate consumption of narG-containing nitrate reducers is mainly caused by DNR in both anaerobic and aerobic environments, while the large proportion of nitrate consumption in A-type nitrate reducers under the aerobic condition is attributed to the assimilation by cell growth. IMPORTANCE Nitrate reducers containing narG or napA are ubiquitous, but little is known about their functional performance in various environments. Our study provides an important clue that the nitrate consumption of narG-containing strains is mainly caused by dissimilatory reduction in the environments, while that of napA-containing nitrate reducers under anaerobic conditions is ascribed to nitrate dissimilation but under the aerobic condition is attributed to the assimilation by cell growth. This finding broadens the understanding of aerobic nitrate reduction in the nitrogen cycle and highlights the important role of narG-containing bacteria in nitrate reduction under aerobic conditions.
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Mangalea MR, Borlee BR. The NarX-NarL two-component system regulates biofilm formation, natural product biosynthesis, and host-associated survival in Burkholderia pseudomallei. Sci Rep 2022; 12:203. [PMID: 34997073 PMCID: PMC8742066 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04053-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium endemic throughout the tropics causing severe disease in humans and animals. Environmental signals such as the accumulation of inorganic ions mediates the biofilm forming capabilities and survival of B. pseudomallei. We have previously shown that B. pseudomallei responds to nitrate and nitrite by inhibiting biofilm formation and altering cyclic di-GMP signaling. To better understand the roles of nitrate-sensing in the biofilm inhibitory phenotype of B. pseudomallei, we created in-frame deletions of narX (Bp1026b_I1014) and narL (Bp1026b_I1013), which are adjacent components of a conserved nitrate-sensing two-component system. We observed transcriptional downregulation in key components of the biofilm matrix in response to nitrate and nitrite. Some of the most differentially expressed genes were nonribosomal peptide synthases (NRPS) and/or polyketide synthases (PKS) encoding the proteins for the biosynthesis of bactobolin, malleilactone, and syrbactin, and an uncharacterized cryptic NRPS biosynthetic cluster. RNA expression patterns were reversed in ∆narX and ∆narL mutants, suggesting that nitrate sensing is an important checkpoint for regulating the diverse metabolic changes occurring in the biofilm inhibitory phenotype. Moreover, in a macrophage model of infection, ∆narX and ∆narL mutants were attenuated in intracellular replication, suggesting that nitrate sensing contributes to survival in the host.
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- Mihnea R Mangalea
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA.
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Jiang F, Huang X, Barbieri NL, Logue CM, Nolan LK, Li G. Citrate utilization under anaerobic environment in Escherichia coli is under direct control of Fnr and indirect control of ArcA and Fnr via CitA-CitB system. Environ Microbiol 2020; 23:1496-1509. [PMID: 33325149 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Most Escherichia coli (E. coli) strains do not cause disease, naturally living in the lower intestine and is expelled into the environment within faecal matter. Escherichia coli can utilize citrate under anaerobic conditions but not aerobic conditions. However, the underlying regulatory mechanisms are poorly understood. In this study, we explored regulatory mechanisms of citrate fermentation genes by global regulators ArcA and Fnr under anaerobic conditions. A gel mobility shift assay showed that the regulator proteins ArcA and Fnr binded to the promoter region localized between the citAB and citCDEFXGT operons. Subsequent assays confirmed that ArcA indirectly controled the expression of citrate fermentation genes via regulating CitA-CitB system, while Fnr directly regulated but also indirectly modulated citrate fermentation genes via controling CitA-CitB system. Deletions of arcA and fnr significantly reduced the growth of Escherichia coli in M9 medium with a citrate carbon source. We conclude that both ArcA and Fnr can indirectly control the citrate utilization via CitA-CitB system, while Fnr can also directly regulate the expression of citrate fermentation genes in E. coli under anaerobic conditions.
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- Fengwei Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China.,Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Technical Centre for Animal, Plant, and Food Inspection and Quarantine of Shanghai Customs, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
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- Department of Infectious Disease, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, China.,Department of Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Schubert C, Zedler S, Strecker A, Unden G. L-Aspartate as a high-quality nitrogen source in Escherichia coli: Regulation of L-aspartase by the nitrogen regulatory system and interaction of L-aspartase with GlnB. Mol Microbiol 2020; 115:526-538. [PMID: 33012071 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Escherichia coli uses the C4-dicarboxylate transporter DcuA for L-aspartate/fumarate antiport, which results in the exploitation of L-aspartate for fumarate respiration under anaerobic conditions and for nitrogen assimilation under aerobic and anaerobic conditions. L-Aspartate represents a high-quality nitrogen source for assimilation. Nitrogen assimilation from L-aspartate required DcuA, and aspartase AspA to release ammonia. Ammonia is able to provide by established pathways the complete set of intracellular precursors (ammonia, L-aspartate, L-glutamate, and L-glutamine) for synthesizing amino acids, nucleotides, and amino sugars. AspA was regulated by a central regulator of nitrogen metabolism, GlnB. GlnB interacted with AspA and stimulated its L-aspartate deaminase activity (NH3 -forming), but not the reverse amination reaction. GlnB stimulation required 2-oxoglutarate and ATP, or uridylylated GlnB-UMP, consistent with the activation of nitrogen assimilation under nitrogen limitation. Binding to AspA was lost in the GlnB(Y51F) mutant of the uridylylation site. AspA, therefore, represents a new type of GlnB target that binds GlnB (with ATP and 2-oxoglutarate), or GlnB-UMP (with or without effectors), and both situations stimulate AspA deamination activity. Thus, AspA represents the central enzyme for nitrogen assimilation from L-aspartate, and AspA is integrated into the nitrogen assimilation network by the regulator GlnB.
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- Christopher Schubert
- Microbiology and Wine Research, Institute for Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Microbiology and Wine Research, Institute for Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Microbiology and Wine Research, Institute for Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Microbiology and Wine Research, Institute for Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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van der Stel AX, Wösten MMSM. Regulation of Respiratory Pathways in Campylobacterota: A Review. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1719. [PMID: 31417516 PMCID: PMC6682613 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The Campylobacterota, previously known as Epsilonproteobacteria, are a large group of Gram-negative mainly, spiral-shaped motile bacteria. Some members like the Sulfurospirillum spp. are free-living, while others such as Helicobacter spp. can only persist in strict association with a host organism as commensal or as pathogen. Species of this phylum colonize diverse habitats ranging from deep-sea thermal vents to the human stomach wall. Despite their divergent environments, they share common energy conservation mechanisms. The Campylobacterota have a large and remarkable repertoire of electron transport chain enzymes, given their small genomes. Although members of recognized families of transcriptional regulators are found in these genomes, sofar no orthologs known to be important for energy or redox metabolism such as ArcA, FNR or NarP are encoded in the genomes of the Campylobacterota. In this review, we discuss the strategies that members of Campylobacterota utilize to conserve energy and the corresponding regulatory mechanisms that regulate the branched electron transport chains in these bacteria.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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The Proteome of Tetrasphaera elongata is adapted to Changing Conditions in Wastewater Treatment Plants. Proteomes 2019; 7:proteomes7020016. [PMID: 31027192 PMCID: PMC6630437 DOI: 10.3390/proteomes7020016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2019] [Revised: 04/19/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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The activated sludge in wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) designed for enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) experiences periodically changing nutrient and oxygen availability. Tetrasphaera is the most abundant genus in Danish WWTP and represents up to 20–30% of the activated sludge community based on 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses, although the genus is in low abundance in the influent wastewater. Here we investigated how Tetrasphaera can successfully out-compete most other microorganisms in such highly dynamic ecosystems. To achieve this, we analyzed the physiological adaptations of the WWTP isolate T. elongata str. LP2 during an aerobic to anoxic shift by label-free quantitative proteomics and NMR-metabolomics. Escherichia coli was used as reference organism as it shares several metabolic capabilities and is regularly introduced to wastewater treatment plants without succeeding there. When compared to E. coli, only minor changes in the proteome of T. elongata were observed after the switch to anoxic conditions. This indicates that metabolic pathways for anaerobic energy harvest were already expressed during the aerobic growth. This allows continuous growth of Tetrasphaera immediately after the switch to anoxic conditions. Metabolomics furthermore revealed that the substrates provided were exploited far more efficiently by Tetrasphaera than by E. coli. These results suggest that T. elongata prospers in the dynamic WWTP environment due to adaptation to the changing environmental conditions.
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Landry BP, Palanki R, Dyulgyarov N, Hartsough LA, Tabor JJ. Phosphatase activity tunes two-component system sensor detection threshold. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1433. [PMID: 29650958 PMCID: PMC5897336 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-03929-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2018] [Accepted: 03/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Two-component systems (TCSs) are the largest family of multi-step signal transduction pathways in biology, and a major source of sensors for biotechnology. However, the input concentrations to which biosensors respond are often mismatched with application requirements. Here, we utilize a mathematical model to show that TCS detection thresholds increase with the phosphatase activity of the sensor histidine kinase. We experimentally validate this result in engineered Bacillus subtilis nitrate and E. coli aspartate TCS sensors by tuning their detection threshold up to two orders of magnitude. We go on to apply our TCS tuning method to recently described tetrathionate and thiosulfate sensors by mutating a widely conserved residue previously shown to impact phosphatase activity. Finally, we apply TCS tuning to engineer B. subtilis to sense and report a wide range of fertilizer concentrations in soil. This work will enable the engineering of tailor-made biosensors for diverse synthetic biology applications. Two-component systems are a major family of signal transduction pathways and a rich source of sensors for biotechnology. Here, the authors develop a general method for rationally tuning two-component system input detection thresholds via specific point mutations in sensor histidine kinase proteins.
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- Brian P Landry
- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA. .,Department of Biosciences, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, 77005, TX, USA.
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Cellular Concentrations of the Transporters DctA and DcuB and the Sensor DcuS of Escherichia coli and the Contributions of Free and Complexed DcuS to Transcriptional Regulation by DcuR. J Bacteriol 2018; 200:JB.00612-17. [PMID: 29203472 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00612-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Escherichia coli, the catabolism of C4-dicarboxylates is regulated by the DcuS-DcuR two-component system. The functional state of the sensor kinase DcuS is controlled by C4-dicarboxylates (like fumarate) and complexation with the C4-dicarboxylate transporters DctA and DcuB, respectively. Free DcuS (DcuSF) is known to be constantly active even in the absence of fumarate, whereas the DcuB-DcuS and DctA-DcuS complexes require fumarate for activation. To elucidate the impact of the transporters on the functional state of DcuS and the concentrations of DcuSF and DcuB-DcuS (or DctA-DcuS), the absolute levels of DcuS, DcuB, and DctA were determined in aerobically or anaerobically grown cells by mass spectrometry. DcuS was present at a constant very low level (10 to 20 molecules DcuS/cell), whereas the levels of DcuB and DctA were higher (minimum, 200 molecules/cell) and further increased with fumarate (12.7- and 2.7-fold, respectively). Relating DcuS and DcuB contents with the functional state of DcuS allowed an estimation of the proportions of DcuS in the free (DcuSF) and the complexed (DcuB-DcuS) states. Unexpectedly, DcuSF levels were always low (<2% of total DcuS), ruling out earlier models that show DcuSF as the major species under noninducing conditions. In the absence of fumarate, when DcuSF is responsible for basal dcuB expression, up to 8% of the maximal DcuB levels are formed. These suffice for DcuB-DcuS complex formation and basal transport activity. In the presence of fumarate (>100 μM), the DcuB-DcuS complex drives the majority of dcuB expression and is thus responsible for induction.IMPORTANCE Two-component systems (TCS) are major devices for sensing by bacteria and adaptation to environmental cues. Membrane-bound sensor kinases of TCS often use accessory proteins of unknown function. The DcuS-DcuR TCS responds to C4-dicarboxylates and requires formation of the complex of DcuS with C4-dicarboxylate transporters DctA or DcuB. Free DcuS (DcuSF) is constitutively active in autophosphorylation and was supposed to have a major role under specific conditions. Here, absolute concentrations of DcuS, DcuB, and DctA were determined under activating and nonactivating conditions by mass spectrometry. The relationship of their absolute contents to the functional state of DcuS revealed their contribution to the control of DcuS-DcuR in vivo, which was not accessible by other approaches, leading to a revision of previous models.
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Mangalea MR, Plumley BA, Borlee BR. Nitrate Sensing and Metabolism Inhibit Biofilm Formation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei by Reducing the Intracellular Concentration of c-di-GMP. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1353. [PMID: 28790983 PMCID: PMC5524735 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium and the causative agent of melioidosis, an emerging infectious disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. Although melioidosis is most prevalent during the rainy season in endemic areas, domestic gardens and farms can also serve as a reservoir for B. pseudomallei during the dry season, in part due to irrigation and fertilizer use. In the environment, B. pseudomallei forms biofilms and persists in soil near plant root zones. Biofilms are dynamic bacterial communities whose formation is regulated by extracellular cues and corresponding changes in the nearly universal secondary messenger cyclic dimeric GMP. Recent studies suggest B. pseudomallei loads are increased by irrigation and the addition of nitrate-rich fertilizers, whereby such nutrient imbalances may be linked to the transmission epidemiology of this important pathogen. We hypothesized that exogenous nitrate inhibits B. pseudomallei biofilms by reducing the intracellular concentration of c-di-GMP. Bioinformatics analyses revealed B. pseudomallei 1026b has the coding capacity for nitrate sensing, metabolism, and transport distributed on both chromosomes. Using a sequence-defined library of B. pseudomallei 1026b transposon insertion mutants, we characterized the role of denitrification genes in biofilm formation in response to nitrate. Our results indicate that the denitrification pathway is implicated in B. pseudomallei biofilm growth dynamics and biofilm formation is inhibited by exogenous addition of sodium nitrate. Genomics analysis identified transposon insertional mutants in a predicted two-component system (narX/narL), a nitrate reductase (narGH), and a nitrate transporter (narK-1) required to sense nitrate and alter biofilm formation. Additionally, the results presented here show that exogenous nitrate reduces intracellular levels of the bacterial second messenger c-di-GMP. These results implicate the role of nitrate sensing in the regulation of a c-di-GMP phosphodiesterase and the corresponding effects on c-di-GMP levels and biofilm formation in B. pseudomallei 1026b.
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- Mihnea R Mangalea
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort CollinsCO, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort CollinsCO, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort CollinsCO, United States
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The polymyxin B-induced transcriptomic response of a clinical, multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae involves multiple regulatory elements and intracellular targets. BMC Genomics 2016; 17:737. [PMID: 27801293 PMCID: PMC5088521 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3070-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Background The emergence of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major public health concern. Many K. pneumoniae infections can only be treated when resorting to last-line drugs such as polymyxin B (PB). However, resistance to this antibiotic is also observed, although insufficient information is described on its mode of action as well as the mechanisms used by resistant bacteria to evade its effects. We aimed to study PB resistance and the influence of abiotic stresses in a clinical K. pneumoniae strain using whole transcriptome profiling. Results We sequenced 12 cDNA libraries of K. pneumoniae Kp13 bacteria, from two biological replicates of the original strain Kp13 (Kp13) and five derivative strains: induced high-level PB resistance in acidic pH (Kp13pH), magnesium deprivation (Kp13Mg), high concentrations of calcium (Kp13Ca) and iron (Kp13Fe), and a control condition with PB (Kp13PolB). Our results show the involvement of multiple regulatory loci that differentially respond to each condition as well as a shared gene expression response elicited by PB treatment, and indicate the participation of two-regulatory components such as ArcA-ArcB, which could be involved in re-routing the K. pneumoniae metabolism following PB treatment. Modules of co-expressed genes could be determined, which correlated to growth in acid stress and PB exposure. We hypothesize that polymyxin B induces metabolic shifts in K. pneumoniae that could relate to surviving against the action of this antibiotic. Conclusions We obtained whole transcriptome data for K. pneumoniae under different environmental conditions and PB treatment. Our results supports the notion that the K. pneumoniae response to PB exposure goes beyond damaged membrane reconstruction and involves recruitment of multiple gene modules and intracellular targets. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-016-3070-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Wörner S, Strecker A, Monzel C, Zeltner M, Witan J, Ebert-Jung A, Unden G. Conversion of the sensor kinase DcuS of Escherichia coli of the DcuB/DcuS sensor complex to the C 4 -dicarboxylate responsive form by the transporter DcuB. Environ Microbiol 2016; 18:4920-4930. [PMID: 27318186 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2015] [Accepted: 06/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The sensor kinase DcuS of Escherichia coli co-operates under aerobic conditions with the C4 -dicarboxylate transporter DctA to form the DctA/DcuS sensor complex. Under anaerobic conditions C4 -dicarboxylate transport in fumarate respiration is catalyzed by C4 -dicarboxylate/fumarate antiporter DcuB. (i) DcuB interacted with DcuS as demonstrated by a bacterial two-hybrid system (BACTH) and by co-chromatography of the solubilized membrane-proteins (mHPINE assay). (ii) In the DcuB/DcuS complex only DcuS served as the sensor since mutations in the substrate site of DcuS changed substrate specificity of sensing, and substrates maleate or 3-nitropropionate induced DcuS response without affecting the fumarate site of DcuB. (iii) The half-maximal concentration for induction of DcuS by fumarate (1 to 2 mM) and the corresponding Km for transport (50 µM) differ by a factor of 20 to 40. Therefore, the fumarate sites are different in transport and sensing. (iv) Increasing levels of DcuB converted DcuS from the permanent ON (DcuB deficient) state to the fumarate responsive form. Overall, the data show that DcuS and DcuB form a DcuB/DcuS complex representing the C4 -dicarboxylate responsive form, and that the sensory site of the complex is located in DcuS whereas DcuB is required for converting DcuS to the sensory competent state.
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- Sebastian Wörner
- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany
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Unden G, Strecker A, Kleefeld A, Kim OB. C4-Dicarboxylate Utilization in Aerobic and Anaerobic Growth. EcoSal Plus 2016; 7. [PMID: 27415771 DOI: 10.1128/ecosalplus.esp-0021-2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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C4-dicarboxylates and the C4-dicarboxylic amino acid l-aspartate support aerobic and anaerobic growth of Escherichia coli and related bacteria. In aerobic growth, succinate, fumarate, D- and L-malate, L-aspartate, and L-tartrate are metabolized by the citric acid cycle and associated reactions. Because of the interruption of the citric acid cycle under anaerobic conditions, anaerobic metabolism of C4-dicarboxylates depends on fumarate reduction to succinate (fumarate respiration). In some related bacteria (e.g., Klebsiella), utilization of C4-dicarboxylates, such as tartrate, is independent of fumarate respiration and uses a Na+-dependent membrane-bound oxaloacetate decarboxylase. Uptake of the C4-dicarboxylates into the bacteria (and anaerobic export of succinate) is achieved under aerobic and anaerobic conditions by different sets of secondary transporters. Expression of the genes for C4-dicarboxylate metabolism is induced in the presence of external C4-dicarboxylates by the membrane-bound DcuS-DcuR two-component system. Noncommon C4-dicarboxylates like l-tartrate or D-malate are perceived by cytoplasmic one-component sensors/transcriptional regulators. This article describes the pathways of aerobic and anaerobic C4-dicarboxylate metabolism and their regulation. The citric acid cycle, fumarate respiration, and fumarate reductase are covered in other articles and discussed here only in the context of C4-dicarboxylate metabolism. Recent aspects of C4-dicarboxylate metabolism like transport, sensing, and regulation will be treated in more detail. This article is an updated version of an article published in 2004 in EcoSal Plus. The update includes new literature, but, in particular, the sections on the metabolism of noncommon C4-dicarboxylates and their regulation, on the DcuS-DcuR regulatory system, and on succinate production by engineered E. coli are largely revised or new.
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- Gottfried Unden
- Institute for Microbiology und Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology und Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology und Wine Research, Johannes Gutenberg-University, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 120-750 Seoul, Korea
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Xiao M, Lai Y, Sun J, Chen G, Yan A. Transcriptional Regulation of the Outer Membrane Porin Gene ompW Reveals its Physiological Role during the Transition from the Aerobic to the Anaerobic Lifestyle of Escherichia coli. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:799. [PMID: 27303386 PMCID: PMC4886647 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Understanding bacterial physiology relies on elucidating the regulatory mechanisms and cellular functions of those differentially expressed genes in response to environmental changes. A widespread Gram-negative bacterial outer membrane protein OmpW has been implicated in the adaptation to stresses in various species. It is recently found to be present in the regulon of the global anaerobic transcription factor FNR and ArcA in Escherichia coli. However, little is known about the physiological implications of this regulatory disposition. In this study, we demonstrate that transcription of ompW is indeed mediated by a series of global regulators involved in the anaerobiosis of E. coli. We show that FNR can both activate and repress the expression of ompW through its direct binding to two distinctive sites, -81.5 and -126.5 bp respectively, on ompW promoter. ArcA also participates in repression of ompW under anaerobic condition, but in an FNR dependent manner. Additionally, ompW is also subject to the regulation by CRP and NarL which senses the availability and types of carbon sources and respiration electron acceptors in the environment respectively, implying a role of OmpW in the carbon and energy metabolism of E. coli during its anaerobic adaptation. Molecular docking reveals that OmpW can bind fumarate, an alternative electron acceptor in anaerobic respiration, with sufficient affinity. Moreover, supplement of fumarate or succinate which belongs to the C4-dicarboxylates family of metabolite, to E. coli culture rescues OmpW-mediated colicin S4 killing. Taken together, we propose that OmpW is involved in anaerobic carbon and energy metabolism to mediate the transition from aerobic to anaerobic lifestyle in E. coli.
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- Minfeng Xiao
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
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Unden G, Wörner S, Monzel C. Cooperation of Secondary Transporters and Sensor Kinases in Transmembrane Signalling: The DctA/DcuS and DcuB/DcuS Sensor Complexes of Escherichia coli. Adv Microb Physiol 2016; 68:139-67. [PMID: 27134023 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2016.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Many membrane-bound sensor kinases require accessory proteins for function. The review describes functional control of membrane-bound sensors by transporters. The C4-dicarboxylate sensor kinase DcuS requires the aerobic or anaerobic C4-dicarboxylate transporters DctA or DcuB, respectively, for function and forms DctA/DcuS or DcuB/DcuS sensor complexes. Free DcuS is in the permanent (ligand independent) ON state. The DctA/DcuS and DcuB/DcuS complexes, on the other hand, control expression in response to C4-dicarboxylates. In DctA/DcuS, helix 8b of DctA and the PASC domain of DcuS are involved in interaction. The stimulus is perceived by the extracytoplasmic sensor domain (PASP) of DcuS. The signal is transmitted across the membrane by a piston-type movement of TM2 of DcuS which appears to be pulled (by analogy to the homologous citrate sensor CitA) by compaction of PASP after C4-dicarboxylate binding. In the cytoplasm, the signal is perceived by the PASC domain of DcuS. PASC inhibits together with DctA the kinase domain of DcuS which is released after C4-dicarboxylate binding. DcuS exhibits two modes for regulating expression of target genes. At higher C4-dicarboxylate levels, DcuS is part of the DctA/DcuS complex and in the C4-dicarboxylate-responsive form which stimulates expression of target genes in response to the concentration of the C4-dicarboxylates (catabolic use of C4-dicarboxylates, mode I regulation). At limiting C4-dicarboxylate concentrations (≤0.05mM), expression of DctA drops and free DcuS appears. Free DcuS is in the permanent ON state (mode II regulation) and stimulates low level (C4-dicarboxylate independent) DctA synthesis for DctA/DcuS complex formation and anabolic C4-dicarboxylate uptake.
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- G Unden
- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute for Microbiology and Wine Research, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Qi Q, Ito Y, Yoshimatsu K, Fujiwara T. Transcriptional regulation of dimethyl sulfoxide respiration in a haloarchaeon, Haloferax volcanii. Extremophiles 2015; 20:27-36. [PMID: 26507955 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-015-0794-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The halophilic euryarchaeon Haloferax volcanii can grow anaerobically by DMSO respiration. DMSO reductase was induced by DMSO respiration not only under anaerobic growth conditions but also in denitrifying cells of H. volcanii. Deletion of the dmsR gene, encoding a putative regulator for the DMSO reductase, resulted in the loss of anaerobic growth by DMSO respiration. Reporter experiments revealed that only the anaerobic condition was essential for transcription of the dmsEABCD genes encoding DMSO reductase and that transcription was enhanced threefold by supplementation of DMSO. In the ∆dmsR mutant, transcription of the dmsEABCD genes induced by the anaerobic condition was not enhanced by DMSO, suggesting that DmsR is a DMSO-responsive regulator. Transcriptions of the dmsR and mgd genes for Mo-bisMGD biosynthesis were regulated in the same manner as the dmsEABCD genes. These results suggest that the genetic regulation of DMSO respiration in H. volcanii is controlled by at least two systems: one is the DMSO-responsive DmsR, and the other is an unknown anaerobic regulator.
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- Qiuzi Qi
- Department of Environment and Energy Systems, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Oh-ya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Oh-ya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan
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- Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Oh-ya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan
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- Department of Environment and Energy Systems, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, 836 Oh-ya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan. .,Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University, 836 Oh-ya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka, 422-8529, Japan.
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Escherichia coli is a versatile facultative anaerobe that can respire on a number of terminal electron acceptors, including oxygen, fumarate, nitrate, and S- and N-oxides. Anaerobic respiration using S- and N-oxides is accomplished by enzymatic reduction of these substrates by dimethyl sulfoxide reductase (DmsABC) and trimethylamine N-oxide reductase (TorCA). Both DmsABC and TorCA are membrane-associated redox enzymes that couple the oxidation of menaquinol to the reduction of S- and N-oxides in the periplasm. DmsABC is membrane bound and is composed of a membrane-extrinsic dimer with a 90.4-kDa catalytic subunit (DmsA) and a 23.1-kDa electron transfer subunit (DmsB). These subunits face the periplasm and are held to the membrane by a 30.8-kDa membrane anchor subunit (DmsC). The enzyme provides the scaffold for an electron transfer relay composed of a quinol binding site, five [4Fe-4S] clusters, and a molybdo-bis(molybdopterin guanine dinucleotide) (present nomenclature: Mo-bis-pyranopterin) (Mo-bisMGD) cofactor. TorCA is composed of a soluble periplasmic subunit (TorA, 92.5 kDa) containing a Mo-bis-MGD. TorA is coupled to the quinone pool via a pentaheme c subunit (TorC, 40.4 kDa) in the membrane. Both DmsABC and TorCA require system-specific chaperones (DmsD or TorD) for assembly, cofactor insertion, and/or targeting to the Tat translocon. In this chapter, we discuss the complex regulation of the dmsABC and torCAD operons, the poorly understood paralogues, and what is known about the assembly and translocation to the periplasmic space by the Tat translocon.
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Nitrate reduction to ammonia via nitrite occurs widely as an anabolic process through which bacteria, archaea, and plants can assimilate nitrate into cellular biomass. Escherichia coli and related enteric bacteria can couple the eight-electron reduction of nitrate to ammonium to growth by coupling the nitrate and nitrite reductases involved to energy-conserving respiratory electron transport systems. In global terms, the respiratory reduction of nitrate to ammonium dominates nitrate and nitrite reduction in many electron-rich environments such as anoxic marine sediments and sulfide-rich thermal vents, the human gastrointestinal tract, and the bodies of warm-blooded animals. This review reviews the regulation and enzymology of this process in E. coli and, where relevant detail is available, also in Salmonella and draws comparisons with and implications for the process in other bacteria where it is pertinent to do so. Fatty acids may be present in high levels in many of the natural environments of E. coli and Salmonella in which oxygen is limited but nitrate is available to support respiration. In E. coli, nitrate reduction in the periplasm involves the products of two seven-gene operons, napFDAGHBC, encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase, and nrfABCDEFG, encoding the periplasmic nitrite reductase. No bacterium has yet been shown to couple a periplasmic nitrate reductase solely to the cytoplasmic nitrite reductase NirB. The cytoplasmic pathway for nitrate reduction to ammonia is restricted almost exclusively to a few groups of facultative anaerobic bacteria that encounter high concentrations of environmental nitrate.
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A dynamic periplasmic electron transfer network enables respiratory flexibility beyond a thermodynamic regulatory regime. ISME JOURNAL 2015; 9:1802-11. [PMID: 25635641 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Revised: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 12/05/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Microorganisms show an astonishing versatility in energy metabolism. They can use a variety of different catabolic electron acceptors, but they use them according to a thermodynamic hierarchy, which is determined by the redox potential of the available electron acceptors. This hierarchy is reflected by a regulatory machinery that leads to the production of respiratory chains in dependence of the availability of the corresponding electron acceptors. In this study, we showed that the γ-proteobacterium Shewanella oneidensis produces several functional electron transfer chains simultaneously. Furthermore, these chains are interconnected, most likely with the aid of c-type cytochromes. The cytochrome pool of a single S. oneidensis cell consists of ca. 700 000 hemes, which are reduced in the absence on an electron acceptor, but can be reoxidized in the presence of a variety of electron acceptors, irrespective of prior growth conditions. The small tetraheme cytochrome (STC) and the soluble heme and flavin containing fumarate reductase FccA have overlapping activity and appear to be important for this electron transfer network. Double deletion mutants showed either delayed growth or no growth with ferric iron, nitrate, dimethyl sulfoxide or fumarate as electron acceptor. We propose that an electron transfer machinery that is produced irrespective of a thermodynamic hierarchy not only enables the organism to quickly release catabolic electrons to a variety of environmental electron acceptors, but also offers a fitness benefit in redox-stratified environments.
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Schindler BD, Joshi RV, Vieille C. Respiratory glycerol metabolism of Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z for succinate production. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 41:1339-52. [DOI: 10.1007/s10295-014-1480-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2014] [Accepted: 06/24/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Actinobacillus succinogenes 130Z naturally produces among the highest levels of succinate from a variety of inexpensive carbon substrates. A few studies have demonstrated that A. succinogenes can anaerobically metabolize glycerol, a waste product of biodiesel manufacture and an inexpensive feedstock, to produce high yields of succinate. However, all these studies were performed in the presence of yeast extract, which largely removes the redox constraints associated with fermenting glycerol, a highly reduced molecule. We demonstrated that A. succinogenes cannot ferment glycerol in minimal medium, but that it can metabolize glycerol by aerobic or anaerobic respiration. These results were expected based on the A. succinogenes genome, which encodes respiratory enzymes, but no pathway for 1,3-propanediol production. We investigated A. succinogenes’s glycerol metabolism in minimal medium in a variety of respiratory conditions by comparing growth, metabolite production, and in vitro activity of terminal oxidoreductases. Nitrate inhibited succinate production by inhibiting fumarate reductase expression. In contrast, growth in the presence of dimethylsulfoxide and in microaerobic conditions allowed high succinate yields. The highest succinate yield was 0.75 mol/mol glycerol (75 % of the maximum theoretical yield) in continuous microaerobic cultures. A. succinogenes could also grow and produce succinate on partially refined glycerols obtained directly from biodiesel manufacture. Finally, by expressing a heterologous 1,3-propanediol synthesis pathway in A. succinogenes, we provide the first proof of concept that A. succinogenes can be engineered to grow fermentatively on glycerol.
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- Bryan D Schindler
- grid.17088.36 0000000121501785 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University 567 Wilson road, room 2215 48824-4320 East Lansing MI USA
- grid.414723.7 0000000404197787 John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center 48201 Detroit MI USA
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- grid.17088.36 0000000121501785 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University 567 Wilson road, room 2215 48824-4320 East Lansing MI USA
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- grid.17088.36 0000000121501785 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University 567 Wilson road, room 2215 48824-4320 East Lansing MI USA
- grid.17088.36 0000000121501785 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Michigan State University 48824 East Lansing MI USA
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van der Stel AX, van Mourik A, Heijmen-van Dijk L, Parker CT, Kelly DJ, van de Lest CHA, van Putten JPM, Wösten MMSM. TheCampylobacter jejuni RacRS system regulates fumarate utilization in a low oxygen environment. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:1049-64. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2013] [Revised: 02/23/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anne-Xander van der Stel
- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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- Produce Safety and Microbiology Research Unit; Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Albany CA 94710 USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; The University of Sheffield; Sheffield S10 2TN UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Immunology; Utrecht University; Utrecht 3584CL The Netherlands
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AspC-mediated aspartate metabolism coordinates the Escherichia coli cell cycle. PLoS One 2014; 9:e92229. [PMID: 24670900 PMCID: PMC3966765 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 02/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background The fast-growing bacterial cell cycle consists of at least two independent cycles of chromosome replication and cell division. To ensure proper cell cycles and viability, chromosome replication and cell division must be coordinated. It has been suggested that metabolism could affect the Escherichia coli cell cycle, but the idea is still lacking solid evidences. Methodology/Principle Findings We found that absence of AspC, an aminotransferase that catalyzes synthesis of aspartate, led to generation of small cells with less origins and slow growth. In contrast, excess AspC was found to exert the opposite effect. Further analysis showed that AspC-mediated aspartate metabolism had a specific effect in the cell cycle, as only extra aspartate of the 20 amino acids triggered production of bigger cells with more origins per cell and faster growth. The amount of DnaA protein per cell was found to be changed in response to the availability of AspC. Depletion of (p)ppGpp by ΔrelAΔspoT led to a slight delay in initiation of replication, but did not change the replication pattern found in the ΔaspC mutant. Conclusion/Significances The results suggest that AspC-mediated metabolism of aspartate coordinates the E. coli cell cycle through altering the amount of the initiator protein DnaA per cell and the division signal UDP-glucose. Furthermore, AspC sequence conservation suggests similar functions in other organisms.
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Fosfomycin and tobramycin in combination downregulate nitrate reductase genes narG and narH, resulting in increased activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa under anaerobic conditions. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2013; 57:5406-14. [PMID: 23959314 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00750-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The activity of aminoglycosides, which are used to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa respiratory infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, is reduced under the anaerobic conditions that reflect the CF lung in vivo. In contrast, a 4:1 (wt/wt) combination of fosfomycin and tobramycin (F:T), which is under investigation for use in the treatment of CF lung infection, has increased activity against P. aeruginosa under anaerobic conditions. The aim of this study was to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the increased activity of F:T under anaerobic conditions. Microarray analysis was used to identify the transcriptional basis of increased F:T activity under anaerobic conditions, and key findings were confirmed by microbiological tests, including nitrate utilization assays, growth curves, and susceptibility testing. Notably, growth in subinhibitory concentrations of F:T, but not tobramycin or fosfomycin alone, significantly downregulated (P < 0.05) nitrate reductase genes narG and narH, which are essential for normal anaerobic growth of P. aeruginosa. Under anaerobic conditions, F:T significantly decreased (P < 0.001) nitrate utilization in P. aeruginosa strains PAO1, PA14, and PA14 lasR::Gm, a mutant known to exhibit increased nitrate utilization. A similar effect was observed with two clinical P. aeruginosa isolates. Growth curves indicate that nitrate reductase transposon mutants had reduced growth under anaerobic conditions, with these mutants also having increased susceptibility to F:T compared to the wild type under similar conditions. The results of this study suggest that downregulation of nitrate reductase genes resulting in reduced nitrate utilization is the mechanism underlying the increased activity of F:T under anaerobic conditions.
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Srikhanta YN, Atack JM, Beacham IR, Jennings MP. Distinct physiological roles for the two L-asparaginase isozymes of Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2013; 436:362-5. [PMID: 23726917 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.05.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Escherichia coli expresses two L-asparaginase (EC 3.5.1.1) isozymes: L-asparaginse I, which is a low affinity, cytoplasmic enzyme that is expressed constitutively, and L-asparaginase II, a high affinity periplasmic enzyme that is under complex co-transcriptional regulation by both Fnr and Crp. The distinct localisation and regulation of these enzymes suggest different roles. To define these roles, a set of isogenic mutants was constructed that lacked either or both enzymes. Evidence is provided that L-asparaginase II, in contrast to L-asparaginase I, can be used in the provision of an anaerobic electron acceptor when using a non-fermentable carbon source in the presence of excess nitrogen.
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- Yogitha N Srikhanta
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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Zhang H, Fu H, Wang J, Sun L, Jiang Y, Zhang L, Gao H. Impacts of nitrate and nitrite on physiology of Shewanella oneidensis. PLoS One 2013; 8:e62629. [PMID: 23626841 PMCID: PMC3633839 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2012] [Accepted: 03/22/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Shewanella oneidensis exhibits a remarkable versatility in anaerobic respiration, which largely relies on its diverse respiratory pathways. Some of these are expressed in response to the existence of their corresponding electron acceptors (EAs) under aerobic conditions. However, little is known about respiration and the impact of non-oxygen EAs on the physiology of the microorganism when oxygen is present. Here we undertook a study to elucidate the basis for nitrate and nitrite inhibition of growth under aerobic conditions. We discovered that nitrate in the form of NaNO3 exerts its inhibitory effects as a precursor to nitrite at low concentrations and as an osmotic-stress provider (Na(+)) at high concentrations. In contrast, nitrite is extremely toxic, with 25 mM abolishing growth completely. We subsequently found that oxygen represses utilization of all EAs but nitrate. To order to utilize EAs with less positive redox potential, such as nitrite and fumarate, S. oneidensis must enter the stationary phase, when oxygen respiration becomes unfavorable. In addition, we demonstrated that during aerobic respiration the cytochrome bd oxidase confers S. oneidensis resistance to nitrite, which likely functions via nitric oxide (NO).
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- Haiyan Zhang
- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- College of Life Sciences, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang, China
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- Institute of Microbiology and College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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Seufi AM, Galal FH, Hafez EE. Characterization of multisugar-binding C-type lectin (SpliLec) from a bacterial-challenged cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42795. [PMID: 22916161 PMCID: PMC3423437 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background Various proteins that display carbohydrate-binding activity in a Ca2+-dependent manner are classified into the C-type lectin family. They have one or two C-type carbohydrate-recognition domains (CRDs) composed of 110–130 amino acid residues in common. C-type lectins mediate cell adhesion, non-self recognition, and immuno-protection processes in immune responses and thus play significant roles in clearance of invaders, either as cell surface receptors for microbial carbohydrates or as soluble proteins existing in tissue fluids. The lectin of Spodoptera littoralis is still uncharacterized. Methodology A single orf encoding a deduced polypeptide consisting of an 18-residue signal peptide and a 291-residue mature peptide, termed SpliLec, was isolated from the haemolymph of the cotton leafworm, S. littoralis, after bacterial challenge using RACE-PCR. Sequence analyses of the data revealed that SpliLec consists of two CRDs. Short-form CRD1 and long-form CRD2 are stabilized by two and three highly conserved disulfide bonds, respectively. SpliLec shares homology with some dipteran lectins suggesting possible common ancestor. The purified SpliLec exhibited a 140-kDa molecular mass with a subunit molecular mass of 35 kDa. The hemagglutination assays of the SpliLec confirmed a thermally stable, multisugar-binding C-type lectin that binds different erythrocytes. The purified SpliLec agglutinated microorganisms and exhibited comparable antimicrobial activity against gram (+) and gram (−) bacteria too. Conclusions Our results suggested an important role of the SpliLec gene in cell adhesion and non-self recognition. It may cooperate with other AMPs in clearance of invaders of Spodoptera littoralis.
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- AlaaEddeen M Seufi
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
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Phage-mediated acquisition of a type III secreted effector protein boosts growth of salmonella by nitrate respiration. mBio 2012; 3:mBio.00143-12. [PMID: 22691391 PMCID: PMC3374392 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00143-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Information on how emerging pathogens can invade and persist and spread within host populations remains sparse. In the 1980s, a multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium clone lysogenized by a bacteriophage carrying the sopE virulence gene caused an epidemic among cattle and humans in Europe. Here we show that phage-mediated horizontal transfer of the sopE gene enhances the production of host-derived nitrate, an energetically highly valuable electron acceptor, in a mouse colitis model. In turn, nitrate fuels a bloom of S. Typhimurium in the gut lumen through anaerobic nitrate respiration while suppressing genes for the utilization of energetically inferior electron acceptors such as tetrathionate. Through this mechanism, horizontal transfer of sopE can enhance the fitness of S. Typhimurium, resulting in its significantly increased abundance in the feces. IMPORTANCE During gastroenteritis, Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium can use tetrathionate respiration to edge out competing microbes in the gut lumen. However, the concept that tetrathionate respiration confers a growth benefit in the inflamed gut is not broadly applicable to other host-pathogen combinations because tetrathionate respiration is a signature trait used to differentiate Salmonella serotypes from most other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Here we show that by acquiring the phage-carried sopE gene, S. Typhimurium can drive the host to generate an additional respiratory electron acceptor, nitrate. Nitrate suppresses genes for the utilization of energetically inferior electron acceptors such as tetrathionate while enhancing the luminal growth of S. Typhimurium through anaerobic nitrate respiration. Pathways for anaerobic nitrate respiration are widely conserved among members of the family Enterobacteriaceae, thereby making our observations relevant to other enteric pathogens whose relative abundance in the intestinal lumen increases during infection.
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Zacher B, Abnaof K, Gade S, Younesi E, Tresch A, Fröhlich H. Joint Bayesian inference of condition-specific miRNA and transcription factor activities from combined gene and microRNA expression data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 28:1714-20. [PMID: 22563068 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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MOTIVATION There have been many successful experimental and bioinformatics efforts to elucidate transcription factor (TF)-target networks in several organisms. For many organisms, these annotations are complemented by miRNA-target networks of good quality. Attempts that use these networks in combination with gene expression data to draw conclusions on TF or miRNA activity are, however, still relatively sparse. RESULTS In this study, we propose Bayesian inference of regulation of transcriptional activity (BIRTA) as a novel approach to infer both, TF and miRNA activities, from combined miRNA and mRNA expression data in a condition specific way. That means our model explains mRNA and miRNA expression for a specific experimental condition by the activities of certain miRNAs and TFs, hence allowing for differentiating between switches from active to inactive (negative switch) and inactive to active (positive switch) forms. Extensive simulations of our model reveal its good prediction performance in comparison to other approaches. Furthermore, the utility of BIRTA is demonstrated at the example of Escherichia coli data comparing aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions, and by human expression data from pancreas and ovarian cancer. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The method is implemented in the R package birta, which is freely available for Bio-conductor (>=2.10) on http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/birta.html.
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- Benedikt Zacher
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Gene Center Munich and Center for integrated Protein Science CiPSM, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Feodor-Lynen-Street 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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CitA/CitB two-component system regulating citrate fermentation in Escherichia coli and its relation to the DcuS/DcuR system in vivo. J Bacteriol 2011; 194:636-45. [PMID: 22101843 DOI: 10.1128/jb.06345-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Citrate fermentation by Escherichia coli requires the function of the citrate/succinate antiporter CitT (citT gene) and of citrate lyase (citCDEFXG genes). Earlier experiments suggested that the two-component system CitA/CitB, consisting of the membrane-bound sensor kinase CitA and the response regulator CitB, stimulates the expression of the genes in the presence of citrate, similarly to CitA/CitB of Klebsiella pneumoniae. In this study, the expression of a chromosomal citC-lacZ gene fusion was shown to depend on CitA/CitB and citrate. CitA/CitB is related to the DcuS/DcuR two-component system which induces the expression of genes for fumarate respiration in response to C(4)-dicarboxylates and citrate. Unlike DcuS, CitA required none of the cognate transporters (CitT, DcuB, or DcuC) for function, and the deletion of the corresponding genes showed no effect on the expression of citC-lacZ. The citAB operon is preceded by a DcuR binding site. Phosphorylated DcuR bound specifically to the promoter region, and the deletion of dcuS or dcuR reduced the expression of citC. The data indicate the presence of a regulatory cascade consisting of DcuS/DcuR modulating citAB expression (and CitA/CitB levels) and CitA/CitB controlling the expression of the citCDEFXGT gene cluster in response to citrate. In vivo fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and the bacterial two-hybrid system (BACTH) showed interaction between the DcuS and CitA proteins. However, BACTH and expression studies demonstrated the lack of interaction and cross-regulation between CitA and DcuR or DcuS and CitB. Therefore, there is only linear phosphoryl transfer (DcuS→DcuR and CitA→CitB) without cross-regulation between DcuS/DcuR and CitA/CitB.
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Seufi AM, Hafez EE, Galal FH. Identification, phylogenetic analysis and expression profile of an anionic insect defensin gene, with antibacterial activity, from bacterial-challenged cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. BMC Mol Biol 2011; 12:47. [PMID: 22067477 PMCID: PMC3234185 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-12-47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2011] [Accepted: 11/09/2011] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Background Defensins are a well known family of cationic antibacterial peptides (AMPs) isolated from fungi, plants, insects, mussels, birds, and various mammals. They are predominantly active against gram (+) bacteria, and a few of them are also active against gram (-) bacteria and fungi. All insect defensins belonging to the invertebrate class have a consensus motif, C-X5-16-C-X3-C-X9-10-C-X4-7-CX1-C. Only seven AMPs have already been found in different lepidopteran species. No report was published on the isolation of defensin from the Egyptian cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis. Results An anionic defensin, termed SpliDef, was isolated from the haemolymph of the cotton leafworm, S. littoralis, after bacterial challenge using differential display technique. Based on sequence analyses of the data, specific primers for full length and mature peptide of defensin were designed and successfully amplified 471 and 150 bp amplicons. The integration of the results revealed that the 471 bp-PCR product has one open reading frame (orf) of 303 bp long, including both start codon (AUG) and stop codon (UGA). The deduced peptide consists of a 23-residues signal peptide, a 27-residues propeptide and a 50-residues mature peptide with the conserved six-cysteine motif of insect defensins. Both haemolymph and expressed protein exhibited antibacterial activities comparable to positive control. The RT-qPCR indicated that it was more than 41-folds up-regulated at 48 h p.i. Conclusion Our results highlight an important immune role of the defensin gene in Spodoptera littoralis by cooperating with other AMPs to control bacterial infection.
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- Alaaeddeen M Seufi
- Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Cairo university, 9 Gamaa St. Giza, 12613, Egypt.
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Troxell B, Fink RC, Porwollik S, McClelland M, Hassan HM. The Fur regulon in anaerobically grown Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium: identification of new Fur targets. BMC Microbiol 2011; 11:236. [PMID: 22017966 PMCID: PMC3212961 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-11-236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2011] [Accepted: 10/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Background The Ferric uptake regulator (Fur) is a transcriptional regulator that controls iron homeostasis in bacteria. Although the regulatory role of Fur in Escherichia coli is well characterized, most of the studies were conducted under routine culture conditions, i.e., in ambient oxygen concentration. To reveal potentially novel aspects of the Fur regulon in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium under oxygen conditions similar to that encountered in the host, we compared the transcriptional profiles of the virulent wild-type strain (ATCC 14028s) and its isogenic Δfur strain under anaerobic conditions. Results Microarray analysis of anaerobically grown Δfur S. Typhimurium identified 298 differentially expressed genes. Expression of several genes controlled by Fnr and NsrR appeared to be also dependent on Fur. Furthermore, Fur was required for the activity of the cytoplasmic superoxide disumutases (MnSOD and FeSOD). The regulation of FeSOD gene, sodB, occurred via small RNAs (i.e., the ryhB homologs, rfrA and rfrB) with the aid of the RNA chaperone Hfq. The transcription of sodA was increased in Δfur; however, the enzyme was inactive due to the incorporation of iron instead of manganese in SodA. Additionally, in Δfur, the expression of the gene coding for the ferritin-like protein (ftnB) was down-regulated, while the transcription of the gene coding for the nitric oxide (NO·) detoxifying flavohemoglobin (hmpA) was up-regulated. The promoters of ftnB and hmpA do not contain recognized Fur binding motifs, which indicated their probable indirect regulation by Fur. However, Fur activation of ftnB was independent of Fnr. In addition, the expression of the gene coding for the histone-like protein, H-NS (hns) was increased in Δfur. This may explain the observed down-regulation of the tdc operon, responsible for the anaerobic degradation of threonine, and ftnB in Δfur. Conclusions This study determined that Fur is a positive factor in ftnB regulation, while serving to repress the expression of hmpA. Furthermore, Fur is required for the proper expression and activation of the antioxidant enzymes, FeSOD and MnSOD. Finally, this work identified twenty-six new targets of Fur regulation, and demonstrates that H-NS repressed genes are down-regulated in Δfur.
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- Bryan Troxell
- Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7615, USA
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Jones SA, Gibson T, Maltby RC, Chowdhury FZ, Stewart V, Cohen PS, Conway T. Anaerobic respiration of Escherichia coli in the mouse intestine. Infect Immun 2011; 79:4218-26. [PMID: 21825069 PMCID: PMC3187261 DOI: 10.1128/iai.05395-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2011] [Accepted: 07/26/2011] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The intestine is inhabited by a large microbial community consisting primarily of anaerobes and, to a lesser extent, facultative anaerobes, such as Escherichia coli, which we have shown requires aerobic respiration to compete successfully in the mouse intestine (S. A. Jones et al., Infect. Immun. 75:4891-4899, 2007). If facultative anaerobes efficiently lower oxygen availability in the intestine, then their sustained growth must also depend on anaerobic metabolism. In support of this idea, mutants lacking nitrate reductase or fumarate reductase have extreme colonization defects. Here, we further explore the role of anaerobic respiration in colonization using the streptomycin-treated mouse model. We found that respiratory electron flow is primarily via the naphthoquinones, which pass electrons to cytochrome bd oxidase and the anaerobic terminal reductases. We found that E. coli uses nitrate and fumarate in the intestine, but not nitrite, dimethyl sulfoxide, or trimethylamine N-oxide. Competitive colonizations revealed that cytochrome bd oxidase is more advantageous than nitrate reductase or fumarate reductase. Strains lacking nitrate reductase outcompeted fumarate reductase mutants once the nitrate concentration in cecal mucus reached submillimolar levels, indicating that fumarate is the more important anaerobic electron acceptor in the intestine because nitrate is limiting. Since nitrate is highest in the absence of E. coli, we conclude that E. coli is the only bacterium in the streptomycin-treated mouse large intestine that respires nitrate. Lastly, we demonstrated that a mutant lacking the NarXL regulator (activator of the NarG system), but not a mutant lacking the NarP-NarQ regulator, has a colonization defect, consistent with the advantage provided by NarG. The emerging picture is one in which gene regulation is tuned to balance expression of the terminal reductases that E. coli uses to maximize its competitiveness and achieve the highest possible population in the intestine.
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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- Section of Microbiology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616-8665
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- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
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Nakanishi Y, Fukuda S, Chikayama E, Kimura Y, Ohno H, Kikuchi J. Dynamic omics approach identifies nutrition-mediated microbial interactions. J Proteome Res 2010; 10:824-36. [PMID: 21058740 DOI: 10.1021/pr100989c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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"Omics" studies reported to date have dealt with either thoroughly characterized single species or poorly explored meta-microbial communities. However, these techniques are capable of producing highly informative data for the analysis of interactions between two organisms. We examined the bacterial interaction between Escherichia coli O157:H7 (O157) and Bifidobacterium longum (BL) as a pathogenic-commensal bacterial model creating a minimum microbial ecosystem in the gut using dynamic omics approaches, consisting of improved time-lapse 2D-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolic profiling, transcriptomic, and proteomic analyses. Our study revealed that the minimum ecosystem was established by bacterial adaptation to the changes in the extracellular environment, primarily by O157, but not by BL. Additionally, the relationship between BL and O157 could be partially regarded as that between a producer and a consumer of nutrients, respectively, especially with regard to serine and aspartate metabolism. Taken together, our profiling system can provide a new insight into the primary metabolic dynamics in microbial ecosystems.
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- Yumiko Nakanishi
- Graduate School of Nanobiosciences, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Abo-Amer AE, Altalhi AD. RpoS-independent and growth phase-dependent expression of dcuSR operon of Escherichia coli. Acta Microbiol Immunol Hung 2009; 56:211-27. [PMID: 19789137 DOI: 10.1556/amicr.56.2009.3.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The dcuSR operon of Escherichia coli encodes a two-component sensor/kinase-response/regulator system. This system regulates gene expression in response to external C 4 -dicarboxylates. During entry into stationary phase Gram-negative bacteria express genes that impart cellular resistance to environmental stresses. In E. coli , 50 or more genes are triggered by sigma factor ( sigma s ) during entry into stationary phase. Multi-copy dcuS-lacZ and chromosomally integrated dcuS-lacZ fusions analysis showed that the expression of dcuSR is positively regulated during growth phase. Many genes that are required for stationary-phase adaptation are controlled by RpoS, a conserved alternative sigma factor, whose expression is, in turn, controlled by many factors. To understand whether the dcuSR is dependent upon RpoS, a RpoS- dcuS-lacZ strain was generated. beta -Galactosidase assay and Western blot analysis reported that the generated RpoS- dcuS-lacZ strain and the wild type showed the same expression during stationary phase. Surprisingly, the growth phase-dependence of the expression of dcuSR is still present in RpoS- dcuS-lacZ strain suggesting that other growth-phase-dependent regulatory mechanisms (might be the DcuSR system or cAMP/CRP), in addition to RpoS, may control post-exponential dcuSR expression.
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- A E Abo-Amer
- University of Taif Department of Biology, Faculty of Science Taif Saudi Arabia Kingdom.
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Kim OB, Reimann J, Lukas H, Schumacher U, Grimpo J, Dünnwald P, Unden G. Regulation of tartrate metabolism by TtdR and relation to the DcuS-DcuR-regulated C4-dicarboxylate metabolism of Escherichia coli. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2009; 155:3632-3640. [PMID: 19661178 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.031401-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Escherichia coli catabolizes L-tartrate under anaerobic conditions to oxaloacetate by the use of L-tartrate/succinate antiporter TtdT and L-tartrate dehydratase TtdAB. Subsequently, L-malate is channelled into fumarate respiration and degraded to succinate by the use of fumarase FumB and fumarate reductase FrdABCD. The genes encoding the latter pathway (dcuB, fumB and frdABCD) are transcriptionally activated by the DcuS-DcuR two-component system. Expression of the L-tartrate-specific ttdABT operon encoding TtdAB and TtdT was stimulated by the LysR-type gene regulator TtdR in the presence of L- and meso-tartrate, and repressed by O(2) and nitrate. Anaerobic expression required a functional fnr gene, and nitrate repression depended on NarL and NarP. Expression of ttdR, encoding TtdR, was repressed by O(2), nitrate and glucose, and positively regulated by TtdR and DcuS. Purified TtdR specifically bound to the ttdR-ttdA promoter region. TtdR was also required for full expression of the DcuS-DcuR-dependent dcuB gene in the presence of tartrate. Overall, expression of the ttdABT genes is subject to L-/meso-tartrate-dependent induction, and to aerobic and nitrate repression. The control is exerted directly at ttdA and in addition indirectly by regulating TtdR levels. TtdR recognizes a subgroup (L- and meso-tartrate) of the stimuli perceived by the sensor DcuS, which responds to all C(4)-dicarboxylates; both systems apparently communicate by mutual regulation of the regulatory genes.
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Weinforschung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Becherweg 15, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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Structural analysis of ligand stimulation of the histidine kinase NarX. Structure 2009; 17:190-201. [PMID: 19217390 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2008.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2008] [Revised: 12/08/2008] [Accepted: 12/10/2008] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Histidine kinase receptors are a large family of membrane-spanning proteins found in many prokaryotes and some eukaryotes. They are a part of two-component signal transduction systems, which each comprise a sensor kinase and a response regulator and are involved with the regulation of many cellular processes. NarX is a histidine kinase receptor that responds to nitrate and nitrite to effect regulation of anaerobic respiration in various bacteria. We present high-resolution X-ray crystal structures of the periplasmic sensor domain from Escherichia coli NarX in a complex with nitrate and in the apo state. Our analysis reveals that nitrate-binding induces conformation changes that result in a piston-type displacement between the N- and C-terminal helices of the periplasmic domain. Such conformational changes might represent a conserved mechanism of signaling in histidine kinases by which ligand binding is communicated across the lipid bilayer.
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Guebel DV, Cánovas M, Torres NV. Analysis of theEscherichia coliresponse to glycerol pulse in continuous, high-cell density culture using a multivariate approach. Biotechnol Bioeng 2009; 102:910-22. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.22120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Sonck KAJ, Kint G, Schoofs G, Vander Wauven C, Vanderleyden J, De Keersmaecker SCJ. The proteome of Salmonella Typhimurium grown under in vivo-mimicking conditions. Proteomics 2009; 9:565-79. [DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Autophosphorylation and dephosphorylation by soluble forms of the nitrate-responsive sensors NarX and NarQ from Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 2008; 190:3869-76. [PMID: 18375557 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00092-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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NarX-NarL and NarQ-NarP are paralogous two-component regulatory systems that control Escherichia coli gene expression in response to the respiratory oxidants nitrate and nitrite. Nitrate stimulates the autophosphorylation rates of the NarX and NarQ sensors, which then phosphorylate the response regulators NarL and NarP to activate and repress target operon transcription. Here, we investigated both the autophosphorylation and dephosphorylation of soluble sensors in which the maltose binding protein (MBP) has replaced the amino-terminal transmembrane sensory domain. The apparent affinities (K(m)) for ADP were similar for both proteins, about 2 microM, whereas the affinity of MBP-NarQ for ATP was lower, about 23 microM. At a saturating concentration of ATP, the rate constant of MBP-NarX autophosphorylation (about 0.5 x 10(-4) s(-1)) was lower than that observed for MBP-NarQ (about 2.2 x 10(-4) s(-1)). At a saturating concentration of ADP, the rate constant of dephosphorylation was higher than that of autophosphorylation, about 0.03 s(-1) for MBP-NarX and about 0.01 s(-1) for MBP-NarQ. For other studied sensors, the published affinities for ADP range from about 16 microM (KinA) to about 40 microM (NtrB). This suggests that only a small proportion of NarX and NarQ remain phosphorylated in the absence of nitrate, resulting in efficient response regulator dephosphorylation by the remaining unphosphorylated sensors.
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Zhu L, Liu XK, Zhao G, Zhi YD, Bu X, Ying TY, Feng EL, Wang J, Zhang XM, Huang PT, Wang HL. Dynamic proteome changes of Shigella flexneri 2a during transition from exponential growth to stationary phase. GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2007; 5:111-20. [PMID: 17893076 PMCID: PMC5054097 DOI: 10.1016/s1672-0229(07)60021-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Shigella flexneri is an infectious pathogen that causes dysentery to human, which remains a serious threat to public health, particularly in developing countries. In this study, the global protein expression patterns of S. flexneri during transition from exponential growth to stationary phase in vitro were analyzed by using 2-D PAGE combined with MALDI-TOF MS. In a time-course experiment with five time points, the relative abundance of 49 protein spots varied significantly. Interestingly, a putative outer membrane protein YciD (OmpW) was almost not detected in the exponential growth phase but became one of the most abundant proteins in the whole stationary-phase proteome. Some proteins regulated by the global regulator FNR were also significantly induced (such as AnsB, AspA, FrdAB, and KatG) or repressed (such as AceEF, OmpX, SodA, and SucAB) during the growth phase transition. These proteins may be the key effectors of the bacterial cell cycle or play important roles in the cellular maintenance and stress responses. Our expression profile data provide valuable information for the study of bacterial physiology and form the basis for future proteomic analyses of this pathogen.
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- Li Zhu
- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
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- National Center of Biomedical Analysis, Beijing 100850, China
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- National Center of Biomedical Analysis, Beijing 100850, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
- Corresponding authors.
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Beijing 100071, China
- Corresponding authors.
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Lin HY, Bledsoe PJ, Stewart V. Activation of yeaR-yoaG operon transcription by the nitrate-responsive regulator NarL is independent of oxygen- responsive regulator Fnr in Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:7539-48. [PMID: 17720788 PMCID: PMC2168752 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00953-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The facultative aerobe Escherichia coli K-12 can use respiratory nitrate ammonification to generate energy during anaerobic growth. The toxic compound nitric oxide is a by-product of this metabolism. Previous transcript microarray studies identified the yeaR-yoaG operon, encoding proteins of unknown function, among genes whose transcription is induced in response to nitrate, nitrite, or nitric oxide. Nitrate and nitrite regulate anaerobic respiratory gene expression through the NarX-NarL and NarQ-NarP two-component systems. All known Nar-activated genes also require the oxygen-responsive Fnr transcription activator. However, previous studies indicated that yeaR-yoaG operon transcription does not require Fnr activation. Here, we report results from mutational analyses demonstrating that yeaR-yoaG operon transcription is activated by phospho-NarL protein independent of the Fnr protein. The phospho-NarL protein binding site is centered at position -43.5 with respect to the transcription initiation site. Expression from the Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 nnrS gene promoter, cloned into E. coli, similarly was activated by phospho-NarL protein independent of the Fnr protein. Recently, yeaR-yoaG operon transcription was shown to be regulated by the nitric oxide-responsive NsrR repressor (N. Filenko et al., J. Bacteriol. 189:4410-4417, 2007). Our mutational analyses reveal the individual contributions of the Nar and NsrR regulators to overall yeaR-yoaG operon expression and document the NsrR operator centered at position -32. Thus, control of yeaR-yoaG operon transcription provides an example of overlapping regulation by nitrate and nitrite, acting through the Nar regulatory system, and nitric oxide, acting through the NsrR repressor.
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- Hsia-Yin Lin
- Food Science Graduate Group, Section of Microbiology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8665, USA
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Using gene expression data and network topology to detect substantial pathways, clusters and switches during oxygen deprivation of Escherichia coli. BMC Bioinformatics 2007; 8:149. [PMID: 17488495 PMCID: PMC1884177 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2006] [Accepted: 05/08/2007] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Biochemical investigations over the last decades have elucidated an increasingly complete image of the cellular metabolism. To derive a systems view for the regulation of the metabolism when cells adapt to environmental changes, whole genome gene expression profiles can be analysed. Moreover, utilising a network topology based on gene relationships may facilitate interpreting this vast amount of information, and extracting significant patterns within the networks. Results Interpreting expression levels as pixels with grey value intensities and network topology as relationships between pixels, allows for an image-like representation of cellular metabolism. While the topology of a regular image is a lattice grid, biological networks demonstrate scale-free architecture and thus advanced image processing methods such as wavelet transforms cannot directly be applied. In the study reported here, one-dimensional enzyme-enzyme pairs were tracked to reveal sub-graphs of a biological interaction network which showed significant adaptations to a changing environment. As a case study, the response of the hetero-fermentative bacterium E. coli to oxygen deprivation was investigated. With our novel method, we detected, as expected, an up-regulation in the pathways of hexose nutrients up-take and metabolism and formate fermentation. Furthermore, our approach revealed a down-regulation in iron processing as well as the up-regulation of the histidine biosynthesis pathway. The latter may reflect an adaptive response of E. coli against an increasingly acidic environment due to the excretion of acidic products during anaerobic growth in a batch culture. Conclusion Based on microarray expression profiling data of prokaryotic cells exposed to fundamental treatment changes, our novel technique proved to extract system changes for a rather broad spectrum of the biochemical network.
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Yukawa H, Omumasaba CA, Nonaka H, Kós P, Okai N, Suzuki N, Suda M, Tsuge Y, Watanabe J, Ikeda Y, Vertès AA, Inui M. Comparative analysis of the Corynebacterium glutamicum group and complete genome sequence of strain R. Microbiology (Reading) 2007; 153:1042-1058. [PMID: 17379713 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2006/003657-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 210] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The complete genome sequence of Corynebacterium glutamicum strain R was determined to allow its comparative analysis with other corynebacteria. The biology of corynebacteria was explored by refining the definition of the subset of genes that constitutes the corynebacterial core as well as those characteristic of saprophytic and pathogenic ecological niches. In addition, the relative scarcity of corynebacterial sigma factors and the plasticity of their two-component system machinery reflect their relatively exacting nutritional requirements and reduced membrane-associated and secreted proteins. The conservation of key genes and pathways between corynebacteria, mycobacteria and Nocardia validates the use of C. glutamicum to study fundamental processes that are conserved in slow-growing mycobacteria, including pathogenesis-associated mechanisms. The discovery of 39 novel genes in C. glutamicum R that have not been previously reported in other corynebacteria supports the rationale for sequencing additional corynebacterial genomes to better define the corynebacterial pan-genome and identify previously undetected metabolic pathways in these organisms.
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- Hideaki Yukawa
- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan
- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Soraku, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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Roos V, Klemm P. Global gene expression profiling of the asymptomatic bacteriuria Escherichia coli strain 83972 in the human urinary tract. Infect Immun 2006; 74:3565-75. [PMID: 16714589 PMCID: PMC1479258 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01959-05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2005] [Revised: 01/30/2006] [Accepted: 03/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are an important health problem worldwide, with many million cases each year. Escherichia coli is the most common organism causing UTIs in humans. The asymptomatic bacteriuria E. coli strain 83972 is an excellent colonizer of the human urinary tract, where it causes long-term bladder colonization. The strain has been used for prophylactic purposes in patients prone to more severe and recurrent UTIs. For this study, we used DNA microarrays to monitor the expression profile of strain 83972 in the human urinary tract. Significant differences in expression levels were seen between the in vivo expression profiles of strain 83972 in three patients and the corresponding in vitro expression profiles in lab medium and human urine. The data revealed an in vivo lifestyle of microaerobic growth with respiration of nitrate coupled to degradation of sugar acids and amino acids, with no signs of attachment to host tissues. Interestingly, genes involved in NO protection and metabolism showed significant up-regulation in the patients. This is one of the first studies to address bacterial whole-genome expression in humans and the first study to investigate global gene expression of an E. coli strain in the human urinary tract.
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- Viktoria Roos
- Microbial Adhesion Group, Center for Biomedical Microbiology, BioCentrum-DTU, Building 301, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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