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Sun S, Wang Y, He B, Chen J, Leng F, Luo W. Comparative transcriptomics revealed the mechanism of Stenotrophomonas rhizophila JC1 response and biosorption to Pb 2. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH 2024; 46:231. [PMID: 38849682 DOI: 10.1007/s10653-024-02019-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/09/2024]
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Nowadays, there is limited research focusing on the biosorption of Pb2+ through microbial process, particularly at the level of gene expression. To overcome this knowledge gap, we studied the adsorption capacity of Stenotrophomonas rhizophila JC1 to Pb2+, and investigated the physiological mechanism by means of SEM, EDS, FTIR, membrane permeability detection, and investigated the molecular mechanism through comparative transcriptomics. The results showed that after 16 h of cultivation, the biosorption capacity of JC1 for 100 mg/L of Pb2+ reached at 79.8%. The main mechanism of JC1 adsorb Pb2+ is via intracellular accumulation, accounting for more than 90% of the total adsorption. At the physiological level, Pb2+ can precipitate with anion functional groups (e.g., -OH, -NH) on the bacterial cell wall or undergo replacement reaction with cell component elements (e.g., Si, Ca) to adsorb Pb2+ outside of the cell wall, thus accomplishing extracellular adsorption of Pb2+ by strains. Furthermore, the cell membrane acts as a "switch" that inhibits the entry of metal ions into the cell from the plasma membrane. At the molecular level, the gene pbt specificity is responsible for the adsorption of Pb2+ by JC1. In addition, phosphate permease is a major member of the ABC transporter family involved in Pb2+, and czcA/cusA or Co2+/Mg2+ efflux protein plays an important role in the efflux of Pb2+ in JC1. Further, cellular macromolecule biosynthesis, inorganic cation transmembrane transport, citrate cycle (TCA) and carbon metabolism pathways all play crucial roles in the response of strain JC1 to Pb2+ stress.
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- Shangchen Sun
- Yellow River Basin Ecotope Integration of Industry and Education Research Institute, Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech University, Lanzhou, 730030, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Langongping Road 287, Qilihe District, Lanzhou, 730050, China.
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- Yellow River Basin Ecotope Integration of Industry and Education Research Institute, Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech University, Lanzhou, 730030, China
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- School of Petrochemical Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou, 730050, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Langongping Road 287, Qilihe District, Lanzhou, 730050, China
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- School of Life Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Langongping Road 287, Qilihe District, Lanzhou, 730050, China
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Conaway A, Todorovic I, Mould DL, Hogan DA. Loss of LasR function leads to decreased repression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PhoB activity at physiological phosphate concentrations. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.03.27.586856. [PMID: 38585852 PMCID: PMC10996656 DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.27.586856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/09/2024]
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While the Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasR transcription factor plays a role in quorum sensing (QS) across phylogenetically-distinct lineages, isolates with loss-of-function mutations in lasR (LasR- strains) are commonly found in diverse settings including infections where they are associated with worse clinical outcomes. In LasR- strains, the transcription factor RhlR, which is controlled by LasR, can be alternately activated in low inorganic phosphate (Pi) concentrations via the two-component system PhoR-PhoB. Here, we demonstrate a new link between LasR and PhoB in which the absence of LasR increases PhoB activity at physiological Pi concentrations and raises the Pi concentration necessary for PhoB inhibition. PhoB activity was also less repressed by Pi in mutants lacking different QS regulators (RhlR and PqsR) and in mutants lacking genes required for the production of QS-regulated phenazines suggesting that decreased phenazine production was one reason for decreased PhoB repression by Pi in LasR- strains. In addition, the CbrA-CbrB two-component system, which is elevated in LasR- strains, was necessary for reduced PhoB repression by Pi and a Δcrc mutant, which lacks the CbrA-CbrB-controlled translational repressor, activated PhoB at higher Pi concentrations than the wild type. The ΔlasR mutant had a PhoB-dependent growth advantage in a medium with no added Pi and increased virulence-determinant gene expression in a medium with physiological Pi, in part through reactivation of QS. This work suggests PhoB activity may contribute to the virulence of LasR- P. aeruginosa and subsequent clinical outcomes.
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- Amy Conaway
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA
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Tan X, Hu M, Cheng X, Xiao J, Zhou J, Zhu G. Effects of elevated levels of intracellular nitric oxide on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm in chronic skin wound and slow-killing infection models. Int Microbiol 2024; 27:349-359. [PMID: 37410300 DOI: 10.1007/s10123-023-00395-5] [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: 02/15/2023] [Revised: 06/19/2023] [Accepted: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023]
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Nitric oxide (NO), produced through the denitrification pathway, regulates biofilm dynamics through the quorum sensing system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. NO stimulates P. aeruginosa biofilm dispersal by enhancing phosphodiesterase activity to decrease cyclic di-GMP levels. In a chronic skin wound model containing a mature biofilm, the gene expression of nirS, encoding nitrite reductase to produce NO, was low, leading to reduced intracellular NO levels. Although low-dose NO induces biofilm dispersion, it is unknown whether it influences the formation of P. aeruginosa biofilms in chronic skin wounds. In this study, a P. aeruginosa PAO1 strain with overexpressed nirS was established to investigate NO effects on P. aeruginosa biofilm formation in an ex vivo chronic skin wound model and unravel the underlying molecular mechanisms. Elevated intracellular NO levels altered the biofilm structure in the wound model by inhibiting the expression of quorum sensing-related genes, which was different from an in vitro model. In Caenorhabditis elegans as a slow-killing infection model, elevated intracellular NO levels increased worms' lifespan by 18%. Worms that fed on the nirS-overexpressed PAO1 strain for 4 h had complete tissue, whereas worms that fed on empty plasmid-containing PAO1 had biofilms on their body, causing severe damage to the head and tail. Thus, elevated intracellular NO levels can inhibit P. aeruginosa biofilm growth in chronic skin wounds and reduce pathogenicity to the host. Targeting NO is a potential approach to control biofilm growth in chronic skin wounds wherein P. aeruginosa biofilms are a persistent problem.
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- Xiaojuan Tan
- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China.
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China
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- School of Food and Biology Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, 221018, Jiangsu, China.
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241000, Anhui, China.
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Lidbury IDEA, Hitchcock A, Groenhof SRM, Connolly AN, Moushtaq L. New insights in bacterial organophosphorus cycling: From human pathogens to environmental bacteria. Adv Microb Physiol 2024; 84:1-49. [PMID: 38821631 DOI: 10.1016/bs.ampbs.2023.12.003] [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] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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In terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, phosphorus (P) availability controls primary production, with consequences for climate regulation and global food security. Understanding the microbial controls on the global P cycle is a prerequisite for minimising our reliance on non-renewable phosphate rock reserves and reducing pollution associated with excessive P fertiliser use. This recognised importance has reinvigorated research into microbial P cycling, which was pioneered over 75 years ago through the study of human pathogenic bacteria-host interactions. Immobilised organic P represents a significant fraction of the total P pool. Hence, microbes have evolved a plethora of mechanisms to transform this fraction into labile inorganic phosphate, the building block for numerous biological molecules. The 'genomics era' has revealed an extraordinary diversity of organic P cycling genes exist in the environment and studies going 'back to the lab' are determining how this diversity relates to function. Through this integrated approach, many hitherto unknown genes and proteins that are involved in microbial P cycling have been discovered. Not only do these fundamental discoveries push the frontier of our knowledge, but several examples also provide exciting opportunities for biotechnology and present possible solutions for improving the sustainability of how we grow our food, both locally and globally. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of bacterial organic P cycling, covering studies on human pathogens and how this knowledge is informing new discoveries in environmental microbiology.
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- Ian D E A Lidbury
- Molecular Microbiology - Biochemistry and Disease, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
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- Molecular Microbiology - Biochemistry and Disease, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Plants, Photosynthesis, and Soil, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Microbiology - Biochemistry and Disease, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Microbiology - Biochemistry and Disease, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Molecular Microbiology - Biochemistry and Disease, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Fabian B, Foster C, Asher A, Hassan K, Paulsen I, Tetu S. Identifying the suite of genes central to swimming in the biocontrol bacterium Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5. Microb Genom 2024; 10:001212. [PMID: 38546328 PMCID: PMC11004494 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001212] [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: 01/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/12/2024] Open
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Swimming motility is a key bacterial trait, important to success in many niches. Biocontrol bacteria, such as Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5, are increasingly used in agriculture to control crop diseases, where motility is important for colonization of the plant rhizosphere. Swimming motility typically involves a suite of flagella and chemotaxis genes, but the specific gene set employed for both regulation and biogenesis can differ substantially between organisms. Here we used transposon-directed insertion site sequencing (TraDIS), a genome-wide approach, to identify 249 genes involved in P. protegens Pf-5 swimming motility. In addition to the expected flagella and chemotaxis, we also identified a suite of additional genes important for swimming, including genes related to peptidoglycan turnover, O-antigen biosynthesis, cell division, signal transduction, c-di-GMP turnover and phosphate transport, and 27 conserved hypothetical proteins. Gene knockout mutants and TraDIS data suggest that defects in the Pst phosphate transport system lead to enhanced swimming motility. Overall, this study expands our knowledge of pseudomonad motility and highlights the utility of a TraDIS-based approach for analysing the functions of thousands of genes. This work sets a foundation for understanding how swimming motility may be related to the inconsistency in biocontrol bacteria performance in the field.
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- B.K. Fabian
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Tan X, Cheng X, Xiao J, Liu Q, Du D, Li M, Sun Y, Zhou J, Zhu G. Alkaline phosphatase LapA regulates quorum sensing-mediated virulence and biofilm formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 under phosphate depletion stress. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0206023. [PMID: 37796007 PMCID: PMC10715133 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02060-23] [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: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/06/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Our previous study demonstrated that the expression of lapA was induced under phosphate depletion conditions, but its roles in virulence and biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa remain largely unknown. This study presents a systematic investigation of the roles of lapA in virulence induction and biofilm formation by constructing a lapA-deficient strain with P. aeruginosa PAO1. The results showed that deletion of the lapA gene evidently reduced elastase activity, swimming motility, C4-HSL, and 3-oxo-C12-HSL production, and increased rhamnolipid production under phosphate depletion stress. Moreover, lapA gene deletion inhibited PAO1 biofilm formation in porcine skin explants by reducing the expression levels of las and rhl quorum sensing systems and extracellular polymeric substance synthesis. Finally, lapA gene deletion also reduced the virulence of PAO1 in Caenorhabditis elegans in fast-kill and slow-kill infection assays. This study provides insights into the roles of lapA in modulating P. aeruginosa virulence and biofilm formation under phosphate depletion stress.
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- Xiaojuan Tan
- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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- School of Food and Biology Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Molecular Enzymology and Mechanism of Major Diseases, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China
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Fitzgerald DM, Stringer AM, Smith C, Lapierre P, Wade JT. Genome-Wide Mapping of the Escherichia coli PhoB Regulon Reveals Many Transcriptionally Inert, Intragenic Binding Sites. mBio 2023; 14:e0253522. [PMID: 37067422 PMCID: PMC10294691 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.02535-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 03/23/2023] [Indexed: 04/18/2023] Open
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Genome-scale analyses have revealed many transcription factor binding sites within, rather than upstream of, genes, raising questions as to the function of these binding sites. Here, we use complementary approaches to map the regulon of the Escherichia coli transcription factor PhoB, a response regulator that controls transcription of genes involved in phosphate homeostasis. Strikingly, the majority of PhoB binding sites are located within genes, but these intragenic sites are not associated with detectable transcription regulation and are not evolutionarily conserved. Many intragenic PhoB sites are located in regions bound by H-NS, likely due to shared sequence preferences of PhoB and H-NS. However, these PhoB binding sites are not associated with transcription regulation even in the absence of H-NS. We propose that for many transcription factors, including PhoB, binding sites not associated with promoter sequences are transcriptionally inert and hence are tolerated as genomic "noise." IMPORTANCE Recent studies have revealed large numbers of transcription factor binding sites within the genes of bacteria. The function, if any, of the vast majority of these binding sites has not been investigated. Here, we map the binding of the transcription factor PhoB across the Escherichia coli genome, revealing that the majority of PhoB binding sites are within genes. We show that PhoB binding sites within genes are not associated with regulation of the overlapping genes. Indeed, our data suggest that bacteria tolerate the presence of large numbers of nonregulatory, intragenic binding sites for transcription factors and that these binding sites are not under selective pressure.
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- Devon M. Fitzgerald
- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA
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Ambreetha S, Singh V. Genetic and environmental determinants of surface adaptations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2023; 169. [PMID: 37276014 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.001335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
is a well-studied Gram-negative opportunistic bacterium that thrives in markedly varied environments. It is a nutritionally versatile microbe that can colonize a host as well as exist in the environment. Unicellular, planktonic cells of
P. aeruginosa
can come together to perform a coordinated swarming movement or turn into a sessile, surface-adhered population called biofilm. These collective behaviours produce strikingly different outcomes. While swarming motility rapidly disseminates the bacterial population, biofilm collectively protects the population from environmental stresses such as heat, drought, toxic chemicals, grazing by predators, and attack by host immune cells and antibiotics. The ubiquitous nature of
P. aeruginosa
is likely to be supported by the timely transition between planktonic, swarming and biofilm lifestyles. The social behaviours of this bacteria viz biofilm and swarm modes are controlled by signals from quorum-sensing networks, LasI-LasR, RhlI-RhlR and PQS-MvfR, and several other sensory kinases and response regulators. A combination of environmental and genetic cues regulates the transition of the
P. aeruginosa
population to specific states. The current review is aimed at discussing key factors that promote physiologically distinct transitioning of the
P. aeruginosa
population.
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- Sakthivel Ambreetha
- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560012, India
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- Department of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560012, India
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Sattrapai N, Chaiprom U, Lindow SE, Chatnaparat T. A Phosphate Uptake System Is Required for Xanthomonas citri pv. glycines Virulence in Soybean. MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS : MPMI 2023; 36:261-272. [PMID: 36574016 DOI: 10.1094/mpmi-11-22-0241-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The genes encoding the phosphate uptake system in Xanthomonas citri pv. glycines 12-2 were previously found to be upregulated when in soybean leaves. This study thus explored the role of the phosphate uptake system on its virulence to soybean. While phoB and pstSCAB mutants were greatly impaired in both inciting disease symptoms and growth in soybean, the virulence and growth in soybean of a phoU mutant was not reduced when compared with the wild-type strain. The expression of phoB and pstSCAB was highly induced in phosphate-deficient media. In addition, the expression of phoB, assessed with a fusion to a promoterless ice nucleation reporter gene, was greatly increased in soybean leaves, confirming that the soybean apoplast is a phosphorus-limited habitat for X. citri pv. glycines. Global gene expression profiles of phoB and phoU mutants of X. citri pv. glycines conducted under phosphate-limitation conditions in vitro, using RNA-seq, revealed that PhoB positively regulated genes involved in signal transduction, the xcs cluster type II secretion system, cell motility, and chemotaxis, while negatively regulating cell wall and membrane biogenesis, DNA replication and recombination and repair, and several genes with unknown function. PhoU also positively regulated the same genes involved in cell motility and chemotaxis. The severity of bacterial pustule disease was decreased in soybean plants grown under high phosphate fertilization conditions, demonstrating that high phosphate availability in soybean plants can affect infection by X. citri pv. glycines by modulation of the expression of phosphate uptake systems. [Formula: see text] Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY 4.0 International license.
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- Nutthakan Sattrapai
- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Center for Advanced Studies for Agriculture and Food (CASAF), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- National Biobank of Thailand (NBT), National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Pathum Thani, Thailand
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Center for Advanced Studies for Agriculture and Food (CASAF), Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Fitzgerald D, Stringer A, Smith C, Lapierre P, Wade JT. Genome-wide mapping of the Escherichia coli PhoB regulon reveals many transcriptionally inert, intragenic binding sites. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.02.07.527549. [PMID: 36798257 PMCID: PMC9934606 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.07.527549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
Abstract
Genome-scale analyses have revealed many transcription factor binding sites within, rather than upstream of genes, raising questions as to the function of these binding sites. Here, we use complementary approaches to map the regulon of the Escherichia coli transcription factor PhoB, a response regulator that controls transcription of genes involved in phosphate homeostasis. Strikingly, the majority of PhoB binding sites are located within genes, but these intragenic sites are not associated with detectable transcription regulation and are not evolutionarily conserved. Many intragenic PhoB sites are located in regions bound by H-NS, likely due to shared sequence preferences of PhoB and H-NS. However, these PhoB binding sites are not associated with transcription regulation even in the absence of H-NS. We propose that for many transcription factors, including PhoB, binding sites not associated with promoter sequences are transcriptionally inert, and hence are tolerated as genomic "noise". IMPORTANCE Recent studies have revealed large numbers of transcription factor binding sites within the genes of bacteria. The function, if any, of the vast majority of these binding sites has not been investigated. Here, we map the binding of the transcription factor PhoB across the Escherichia coli genome, revealing that the majority of PhoB binding sites are within genes. We show that PhoB binding sites within genes are not associated with regulation of the overlapping genes. Indeed, our data suggest that bacteria tolerate the presence of large numbers of non-regulatory, intragenic binding sites for transcription factors, and that these binding sites are not under selective pressure.
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- Devon Fitzgerald
- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA
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- Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health, University at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.,Corresponding author:
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Yi X, Xu X, Qi X, Chen Y, Zhu Z, Xu G, Li H, Kraco EK, Shen H, Lin M, Zheng J, Qin Y, Jiang X. Mechanisms Underlying the Virulence Regulation of Vibrio alginolyticus ND-01 pstS and pstB with a Transcriptomic Analysis. Microorganisms 2022; 10:2093. [PMID: 36363689 PMCID: PMC9698627 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10112093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 10/14/2022] [Accepted: 10/18/2022] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
Abstract
Vibrio alginolyticus is a common opportunistic pathogen of fish, shrimp, and shellfish, and many diseases it causes can result in severe economic losses in the aquaculture industry. Causing host disease was confirmed by several virulence factors of V. alginolyticus. To date, there have been no reports on the effect of the pstS gene on its virulence regulation of V. alginolyticus. The virulence mechanism of target genes regulating V. alginolyticus is worthy of further study. Previous studies found that Fructus schisandrae (30 mg/mL) inhibited the growth of V. alginolyticus ND-01 (OD600 = 0.5) for 4 h, while the expressions of pstS and pstB were significantly affected by F. schisandrae stress. So, we speculated that pstS and pstB might be the virulence genes of V. alginolyticus, which were stably silenced by RNAi to construct the silencing strains pstS-RNAi and pstB-RNAi, respectively. After the expression of pstS or pstB gene was inhibited, the adhesion capacity and biofilm formation of V. alginolyticus were significantly down-regulated. The chemotaxis and biofilm formation ability of pstS-RNAi was reduced by 33.33% and 68.13% compared with the wild-type strain, respectively. Sequence alignment and homology analysis showed that pstS was highly conserved, which suggested that pstS played a vital role in the secretion system of V. alginolyticus. The pstS-RNAi with the highest silencing efficiency was selected for transcriptome sequencing. The Differentially Expressed Genes (DEGs) and GO terms were mapped to the reference genome of V. alginolyticus, including 1055 up-regulated genes and 1134 down-regulated genes. The functions of the DEGs were analyzed by GO and categorized into different enriched functional groups, such as ribosome synthesis, organelles, biosynthesis, pathogenesis, and secretion. These DEGs were then mapped to the reference KEGG pathways of V. alginolyticus and enriched in commonalities in the metabolic, ribosomal, and bacterial secretion pathways. Therefore, pstS and pstB could regulate the bacterial virulence of V. alginolyticus by affecting its adhesion, biofilm formation ability, and motility. Understanding the relationship between the expressions of pstS and pstB with bacterial virulence could provide new perspectives to prevent bacterial diseases.
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- Xin Yi
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Fisheries Research Institute of Fujian, Xiamen 361013, China
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- School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 600 East Greenfield Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea, Engineering Research Center of the Modern Technology for Eel Industry, Fisheries College, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China
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Chagas MDS, Medeiros F, dos Santos MT, de Menezes MA, Carvalho-Assef APD, da Silva FAB. An updated gene regulatory network reconstruction of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa CCBH4851. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2022; 117:e220111. [PMID: 36259790 PMCID: PMC9565603 DOI: 10.1590/0074-02760220111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa are significant public health issues worldwide. A system biology approach can help understand bacterial behaviour and provide novel ways to identify potential therapeutic targets and develop new drugs. Gene regulatory networks (GRN) are examples of in silico representation of interaction between regulatory genes and their targets. OBJECTIVES In this work, we update the MDR P. aeruginosa CCBH4851 GRN reconstruction and analyse and discuss its structural properties. METHODS We based this study on the gene orthology inference methodology using the reciprocal best hit method. The P. aeruginosa CCBH4851 genome and GRN, published in 2019, and the P. aeruginosa PAO1 GRN, published in 2020, were used for this update reconstruction process. FINDINGS Our result is a GRN with a greater number of regulatory genes, target genes, and interactions compared to the previous networks, and its structural properties are consistent with the complexity of biological networks and the biological features of P. aeruginosa. MAIN CONCLUSIONS Here, we present the largest and most complete version of P. aeruginosa GRN published to this date, to the best of our knowledge.
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- Márcia da Silva Chagas
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Programa de Computação Científica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil,+ Corresponding authors: /
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- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz-Fiocruz, Instituto Nacional de Infectologia, Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em Doenças Febris Agudas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
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Lapiere A, Richard ML. Bacterial-fungal metabolic interactions within the microbiota and their potential relevance in human health and disease: a short review. Gut Microbes 2022; 14:2105610. [PMID: 35903007 PMCID: PMC9341359 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2022.2105610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The composition of the microbiota is the focus of many recent publications describing the effects of the microbiota on host health. In recent years, research has progressed further, investigating not only the diversity of genes and functions but also metabolites produced by microorganisms composing the microbiota of various niches and how these metabolites affect and shape the microbial community. While an abundance of data has been published on bacterial interactions, much less data are available on the interactions of bacteria with another component of the microbiota: the fungal community. Although present in smaller numbers, fungi are essential to the balance of this complex microbial ecosystem. Both bacterial and fungal communities produce metabolites that influence their own population but also that of the other. However, to date, interkingdom interactions occurring through metabolites produced by bacteria and fungi have rarely been described. In this review, we describe the major metabolites produced by both kingdoms and discuss how they influence each other, by what mechanisms and with what consequences for the host.
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- Alexia Lapiere
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France,Paris Center for Microbiome Medicine, Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France,Paris Center for Microbiome Medicine, Fédération Hospitalo-Universitaire, France,CONTACT Mathias L Richard INRAE, Micalis Institute, Probihote Team, Domaine de Vilvert, 78352, Jouy en Josas, France
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Qin S, Xiao W, Zhou C, Pu Q, Deng X, Lan L, Liang H, Song X, Wu M. Pseudomonas aeruginosa: pathogenesis, virulence factors, antibiotic resistance, interaction with host, technology advances and emerging therapeutics. Signal Transduct Target Ther 2022; 7:199. [PMID: 35752612 PMCID: PMC9233671 DOI: 10.1038/s41392-022-01056-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 281] [Impact Index Per Article: 140.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that infects patients with cystic fibrosis, burn wounds, immunodeficiency, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), cancer, and severe infection requiring ventilation, such as COVID-19. P. aeruginosa is also a widely-used model bacterium for all biological areas. In addition to continued, intense efforts in understanding bacterial pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa including virulence factors (LPS, quorum sensing, two-component systems, 6 type secretion systems, outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), CRISPR-Cas and their regulation), rapid progress has been made in further studying host-pathogen interaction, particularly host immune networks involving autophagy, inflammasome, non-coding RNAs, cGAS, etc. Furthermore, numerous technologic advances, such as bioinformatics, metabolomics, scRNA-seq, nanoparticles, drug screening, and phage therapy, have been used to improve our understanding of P. aeruginosa pathogenesis and host defense. Nevertheless, much remains to be uncovered about interactions between P. aeruginosa and host immune responses, including mechanisms of drug resistance by known or unannotated bacterial virulence factors as well as mammalian cell signaling pathways. The widespread use of antibiotics and the slow development of effective antimicrobials present daunting challenges and necessitate new theoretical and practical platforms to screen and develop mechanism-tested novel drugs to treat intractable infections, especially those caused by multi-drug resistance strains. Benefited from has advancing in research tools and technology, dissecting this pathogen's feature has entered into molecular and mechanistic details as well as dynamic and holistic views. Herein, we comprehensively review the progress and discuss the current status of P. aeruginosa biophysical traits, behaviors, virulence factors, invasive regulators, and host defense patterns against its infection, which point out new directions for future investigation and add to the design of novel and/or alternative therapeutics to combat this clinically significant pathogen.
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- Shugang Qin
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430071, P.R. China
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58203, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58203, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, ShaanXi, 710069, China
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-related Molecular Network, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58203, USA.
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Initiates a Rapid and Specific Transcriptional Response during Surface Attachment. J Bacteriol 2022; 204:e0008622. [PMID: 35467391 PMCID: PMC9112911 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00086-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Chronic biofilm infections by Pseudomonas aeruginosa are a major contributor to the morbidity and mortality of patients. The formation of multicellular bacterial aggregates, called biofilms, is associated with increased resistance to antimicrobials and immune clearance and the persistence of infections. Biofilm formation is dependent on bacterial cell attachment to surfaces, and therefore, attachment plays a key role in chronic infections. We hypothesized that bacteria sense various surfaces and initiate a rapid, specific response to increase adhesion and establish biofilms. RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) analysis identified transcriptional changes of adherent cells during initial attachment, identifying the bacterial response to an abiotic surface over a 1-h period. Subsequent screens investigating the most highly regulated genes in surface attachment identified 4 genes, pfpI, phnA, leuD, and moaE, all of which have roles in both metabolism and biofilm formation. In addition, the transcriptional responses to several different medically relevant abiotic surfaces were compared after initial attachment. Surprisingly, there was a specific transcriptional response to each surface, with very few genes being regulated in response to surfaces in general. We identified a set of 20 genes that were differentially expressed across all three surfaces, many of which have metabolic functions, including molybdopterin cofactor biosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism. This study has advanced the understanding of the kinetics and specificity of bacterial transcriptional responses to surfaces and suggests that metabolic cues are important signals during the transition from a planktonic to a biofilm lifestyle. IMPORTANCE Bacterial biofilms are a significant concern in many aspects of life, including chronic infections of airways, wounds, and indwelling medical devices; biofouling of industrial surfaces relevant for food production and marine surfaces; and nosocomial infections. The effects of understanding surface adhesion could impact many areas of life. This study utilized emerging technology in a novel approach to address a key step in bacterial biofilm development. These findings have elucidated both conserved and surface-specific responses to several disease-relevant abiotic surfaces. Future work will expand on this report to identify mechanisms of biofilm initiation with the aim of identifying bacterial factors that could be targeted to prevent biofilms.
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Hsieh ML, Kiel N, Jenkins L, Ng WL, Knipling L, Waters C, Hinton D. The Vibrio cholerae master regulator for the activation of biofilm biogenesis genes, VpsR, senses both cyclic di-GMP and phosphate. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:4484-4499. [PMID: 35438787 PMCID: PMC9071405 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Vibrio cholerae biofilm formation/maintenance is controlled by myriad factors; chief among these are the regulator VpsR and cyclic di-guanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP). VpsR has strong sequence similarity to enhancer binding proteins (EBPs) that activate RNA polymerase containing sigma factor σ54. However, we have previously shown that transcription from promoters within the biofilm biogenesis/maintenance pathways uses VpsR, c-di-GMP and RNA polymerase containing the primary sigma factor (σ70). Previous work suggested that phosphorylation of VpsR at a highly conserved aspartate, which is phosphorylated in other EBPs, might also contribute to activation. Using the biofilm biogenesis promoter PvpsL, we show that in the presence of c-di-GMP, either wild type or the phospho-mimic VpsR D59E activates PvpsL transcription, while the phospho-defective D59A variant does not. Furthermore, when c-di-GMP levels are low, acetyl phosphate (Ac∼P) is required for significant VpsR activity in vivo and in vitro. Although these findings argue that VpsR phosphorylation is needed for activation, we show that VpsR is not phosphorylated or acetylated by Ac∼P and either sodium phosphate or potassium phosphate, which are not phosphate donors, fully substitutes for Ac∼P. We conclude that VpsR is an unusual regulator that senses phosphate directly, rather than through phosphorylation, to aid in the decision to form/maintain biofilm.
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- Meng-Lun Hsieh
- Gene Expression and Regulation Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Collaborative Protein Technology Resource, Laboratory of Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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- Gene Expression and Regulation Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Correspondence may also be addressed to Christopher M. Waters. Tel: +1 517 884 5360; Fax: +1 517 355 6463;
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 301 496 9885; Fax: +1 301 402 0053;
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Tan X, Cheng X, Hu M, Zhang Y, Jia A, Zhou J, Zhu G. Transcriptional analysis and target genes discovery of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm developed ex vivo chronic wound model. AMB Express 2021; 11:157. [PMID: 34837552 PMCID: PMC8627541 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-021-01317-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Bacterial biofilms formation is one of the major reasons for treatment failure in chronic wound infections. Therefore, diagnostic biomarkers remain the best option for prevention and treatment of chronic wound infections by biofilms. Herein, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 was used to mimic biofilm development in porcine skin explants wells as ex vivo wound model. The microscopic imaging showed that PAO1 in porcine skin explants wells formed micro-colonies at 24 h, developed mushroom-like structure at 48 h, and at 72 h mushroom-like structure disappeared, remaining a thin bacterial lawn. RNA-seq data analysis revealed that the expression levels of genes involved in the type II hxc secretion system were significantly higher in biofilms than in planktonic cells, especially the expression of lapA encoding alkaline phosphatase. However, the expression levels of genes associated with denitrification pathway were markedly decreased in biofilms, especially the transcription of nirS encoding nitrite reductase to produce nitric oxide (NO). Therefore, their expressions and products were further detected using RT-qPCR and biochemical assays, respectively. The results found that the expression of lapA and alkaline phosphatase activity were induced, but the expression of nirS and intracellular NO were reduced at the whole biofilms cycle. The study indicates that LapA and NO would play an important role for P. aeruginosa biofilm formation in chronic wound infections. LapA would serve as potential target to monitor chronic wound infections by P. aeruginosa biofilms. Inducing NO would be used to treat chronic wound infections due to P. aeruginosa biofilms.
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Decreased biofilm formation in Proteus mirabilis after short-term exposure to a simulated microgravity environment. Braz J Microbiol 2021; 52:2021-2030. [PMID: 34558030 PMCID: PMC8578233 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-021-00588-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Microbes threaten human health in space exploration. Studies have shown that Proteus mirabilis has been found in human space habitats. In addition, the biological characteristics of P. mirabilis in space have been studied unconditionally. The simulated microgravity environment provides a platform for understanding the changes in the biological characteristics of P. mirabilis. Objective This study intends to explore the effect of simulated microgravity on P. mirabilis, the formation of P. mirabilis biofilm, and its related mechanism. Methods The strange deformable rods were cultured continuously for 14 days under microgravity simulated in high-aspect rotating vessels (HARVs). The morphology, growth rate, metabolism, and biofilm formation of the strain were measured, and the phenotypic changes of P. mirabilis were evaluated. Transcriptome sequencing was used to detect differentially expressed genes under simulated microgravity and compared with phenotype. Results The growth rate, metabolic ability, and biofilm forming ability of P. mirabilis were lower than those of normal gravity culture under the condition of simulated microgravity. Further analysis showed that the decrease of growth rate, metabolic ability, and biofilm forming ability may be caused by the downregulation of related genes (pstS, sodB, and fumC). Conclusion The simulated microgravity condition enables us to explore the potential relationship between bacterial phenotype and molecular biology, thus opening up a suitable and constructive method for medical fields that have not been explored before. It provides a certain strategy for the treatment of P. mirabilis infectious diseases in space environment by exploring the microgravity of P. mirabilis. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42770-021-00588-y.
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Inhibitory Effects of Artificial Sweeteners on Bacterial Quorum Sensing. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22189863. [PMID: 34576027 PMCID: PMC8472786 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189863] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Despite having been tagged as safe and beneficial, recent evidence remains inconclusive regarding the status of artificial sweeteners and their putative effects on gut microbiota. Gut microorganisms are essential for the normal metabolic functions of their host. These microorganisms communicate within their community and regulate group behaviors via a molecular system termed quorum sensing (QS). In the present study, we aimed to study the effects of artificial sweeteners on this bacterial communication system. Using biosensor assays, biophysical protein characterization methods, microscale thermophoresis, swarming motility assays, growth assays, as well as molecular docking, we show that aspartame, sucralose, and saccharin have significant inhibitory actions on the Gram-negative bacteria N-acyl homoserine lactone-based (AHL) communication system. Our studies indicate that these three artificial sweeteners are not bactericidal. Protein-ligand docking and interaction profiling, using LasR as a representative participating receptor for AHL, suggest that the artificial sweeteners bind to the ligand-binding pocket of the protein, possibly interfering with the proper housing of the native ligand and thus impeding protein folding. Our findings suggest that these artificial sweeteners may affect the balance of the gut microbial community via QS-inhibition. We, therefore, infer an effect of these artificial sweeteners on numerous molecular events that are at the core of intestinal microbial function, and by extension on the host metabolism.
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Wang T, Sun W, Fan L, Hua C, Wu N, Fan S, Zhang J, Deng X, Yan J. An atlas of the binding specificities of transcription factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa directs prediction of novel regulators in virulence. eLife 2021; 10:61885. [PMID: 33779544 PMCID: PMC8041468 DOI: 10.7554/elife.61885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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A high-throughput systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment assay was applied to 371 putative TFs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which resulted in the robust enrichment of 199 unique sequence motifs describing the binding specificities of 182 TFs. By scanning the genome, we predicted in total 33,709 significant interactions between TFs and their target loci, which were more than 11-fold enriched in the intergenic regions but depleted in the gene body regions. To further explore and delineate the physiological and pathogenic roles of TFs in P. aeruginosa, we constructed regulatory networks for nine major virulence-associated pathways and found that 51 TFs were potentially significantly associated with these virulence pathways, 32 of which had not been characterized before, and some were even involved in multiple pathways. These results will significantly facilitate future studies on transcriptional regulation in P. aeruginosa and other relevant pathogens, and accelerate to discover effective treatment and prevention strategies for the associated infectious diseases.
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- Tingting Wang
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China.,School of Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- School of Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- School of Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China.,School of Medicine, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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Assessing the Molecular Targets and Mode of Action of Furanone C-30 on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26061620. [PMID: 33803983 PMCID: PMC7998126 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26061620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 03/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Quorum sensing (QS), a sophisticated system of bacterial communication that depends on population density, is employed by many pathogenic bacteria to regulate virulence. In view of the current reality of antibiotic resistance, it is expected that interfering with QS can address bacterial pathogenicity without stimulating the incidence of resistance. Thus, harnessing QS inhibitors has been considered a promising approach to overriding bacterial infections and combating antibiotic resistance that has become a major threat to public healthcare around the globe. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most frequent multidrug-resistant bacteria that utilize QS to control virulence. Many natural compounds, including furanones, have demonstrated strong inhibitory effects on several pathogens via blocking or attenuating QS. While the natural furanones show no activity against P. aeruginosa, furanone C-30, a brominated derivative of natural furanone compounds, has been reported to be a potent inhibitor of the QS system of the notorious opportunistic pathogen. In the present study, we assess the molecular targets and mode of action of furanone C-30 on P. aeruginosa QS system. Our results suggest that furanone C-30 binds to LasR at the ligand-binding site but fails to establish interactions with the residues crucial for the protein's productive conformational changes and folding, thus rendering the protein dysfunctional. We also show that furanone C-30 inhibits RhlR, independent of LasR, suggesting a complex mechanism for the agent beyond what is known to date.
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Gil-Marqués ML, Labrador Herrera G, Miró Canturri A, Pachón J, Smani Y, Pachón-Ibáñez ME. Role of PstS in the Pathogenesis of Acinetobacter baumannii Under Microaerobiosis and Normoxia. J Infect Dis 2021; 222:1204-1212. [PMID: 32324853 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Acinetobacter baumannii is a successful pathogen responsible for infections with high mortality rate. During the course of infection it can be found in microaerobic environments, which influences virulence factor expression. From a previous transcriptomic analysis of A. baumannii ATCC 17978 under microaerobiosis, we know the gene pstS is overexpressed under microaerobiosis. Here, we studied its role in A. baumannii virulence. pstS loss significantly decreased bacterial adherence and invasion into A549 cells and increased A549 cell viability. pstS loss also reduced motility and biofilm-forming ability of A. baumannii. In a peritoneal sepsis murine model, the minimum lethal dose required by A. baumannii ATCC 17978 ΔpstS was lower compared to the wild type (4.3 vs 3.2 log colony forming units/mL, respectively), and the bacterial burden in tissues and fluids was lower. Thus, the loss of the phosphate sensor PstS produced a decrease in A. baumannii pathogenesis, supporting its role as a virulence factor.
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- María Luisa Gil-Marqués
- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
- Department of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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- Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Preventive Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
- Department of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
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Fan K, Cao Q, Lan L. Genome-Wide Mapping Reveals Complex Regulatory Activities of BfmR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microorganisms 2021; 9:485. [PMID: 33668961 PMCID: PMC8025907 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9030485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Revised: 02/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BfmR is a response regulator that modulates diverse pathogenic phenotypes and induces an acute-to-chronic virulence switch in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an important human pathogen causing serious nosocomial infections. However, the mechanisms of action of BfmR remain largely unknown. Here, using chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing (ChIP-seq), we showed that 174 chromosomal regions of P. aeruginosa MPAO1 genome were highly enriched by coimmunoprecipitation with a C-terminal Flag-tagged BfmR. Integration of these data with global transcriptome analyses revealed that 172 genes in 106 predicted transcription units are potential targets for BfmR. We determined that BfmR binds to and modulates the promoter activity of genes encoding transcriptional regulators CzcR, ExsA, and PhoB. Intriguingly, BfmR bound to the promoters of a number of genes belong to either CzcR or PhoB regulon, or both, indicating that CzcRS and PhoBR two-component systems (TCSs) deeply feed into the BfmR-mediated regulatory network. In addition, we demonstrated that phoB is required for BfmR to promote the biofilm formation by P. aeruginosa. These results delineate the direct BfmR regulon and exemplify the complexity of BfmR-mediated regulation of cellular functions in P. aeruginosa.
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- Ke Fan
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China;
- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China;
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- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China;
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- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China;
- State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China;
- School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS, Hangzhou 310024, China
- NMPA Key Laboratory for Testing Technology of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Shanghai Institute for Food and Drug Control, Shanghai 201203, China
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The Rhl Quorum-Sensing System Is at the Top of the Regulatory Hierarchy under Phosphate-Limiting Conditions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. J Bacteriol 2021; 203:JB.00475-20. [PMID: 33288622 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00475-20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major nosocomial pathogen that presents high-level resistance to antibiotics. Its ability to cause infections relies on the production of multiple virulence factors. Quorum sensing (QS) regulates the expression of many of these virulence factors through three QS systems: Las, Rhl, and PQS. The Las system positively regulates the other two systems, so it is at the top of a hierarchized regulation. Nevertheless, clinical and environmental strains that lack a functional Las system have been isolated, and, surprisingly, some of them still have the ability to produce virulence factors and infect animal models, so it has been suggested that the hierarchy is flexible under some conditions or with atypical strains. Here, we analyze the PAO1 type strain and its ΔlasR-derived mutant and report, for the first time, a growth condition (phosphate limitation) where LasR absence has no effect either on virulence factor production or on the gene expression profile, in contrast to a condition of phosphate repletion where the LasR hierarchy is maintained. This work provides evidence on how the QS hierarchy can change from being a strictly LasR-dependent to a LasR-independent RhlR-based hierarchy under phosphate limitation even in the PAO1 type strain.IMPORTANCE Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important pathogen, considered a priority for the development of new therapeutic strategies. An important approach to fight its infections relies on blocking quorum sensing. The Las system is the main regulator of the quorum-sensing response, so many research efforts aim to block this system to suppress the entire response. In this work, we show that LasR is dispensable in a phosphate-limited environment in the PAO1 type strain, which has been used to define the quorum-sensing response hierarchy, and that under this condition RhlR is at the top of the regulation hierarchy. These results are highly significant, since phosphate limitation represents a similar environment to the one that P. aeruginosa faces when establishing infections.
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Soberón‐Chávez G, González‐Valdez A, Soto‐Aceves MP, Cocotl‐Yañez M. Rhamnolipids produced by Pseudomonas: from molecular genetics to the market. Microb Biotechnol 2021; 14:136-146. [PMID: 33151628 PMCID: PMC7888470 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Revised: 10/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants with a wide range of industrial applications that entered into the market a decade ago. They are naturally produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and some Burkholderia species. Occasionally, some strains of different bacterial species, like Pseudomonas chlororaphis NRRL B-30761, which have acquired RL-producing ability by horizontal gene transfer, have been described. P. aeruginosa, the ubiquitous opportunistic pathogenic bacterium, is the best rhamnolipids producer, but Pseudomonas putida has been used as heterologous host for the production of this biosurfactant with relatively good yields. The molecular genetics of rhamnolipids production by P. aeruginosa has been widely studied not only due to the interest in developing overproducing strains, but because it is coordinately regulated with the expression of different virulence-related traits by the quorum-sensing response. Here, we highlight how the research of the molecular mechanisms involved in rhamnolipid production have impacted the development of strains that are suitable for industrial production of this biosurfactant, as well as some perspectives to improve these industrial useful strains.
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- Gloria Soberón‐Chávez
- Departamento de Biología Molecular y BiotecnologíaInstituto de Investigaciones BiomédicasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCiudad Universitaria, CDMXCoyoacanMéxico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y BiotecnologíaInstituto de Investigaciones BiomédicasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCiudad Universitaria, CDMXCoyoacanMéxico
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- Departamento de Biología Molecular y BiotecnologíaInstituto de Investigaciones BiomédicasUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCiudad Universitaria, CDMXCoyoacanMéxico
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- Departamento de Microbiología y ParasitologíaFacultad de MedicinaUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoCiudad Universitaria, CDMXCoyoacanMéxico
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Shao X, Xie Y, Zhang Y, Liu J, Ding Y, Wu M, Wang X, Deng X. Novel therapeutic strategies for treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2020; 15:1403-1423. [PMID: 32880507 DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2020.1803274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Persistent infections caused by the superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents are huge threats to patients with cystic fibrosis as well as those with compromised immune systems. Multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa has posed a major challenge to conventional antibiotics and therapeutic approaches, which show limited efficacy and cause serious side effects. The public demand for new antibiotics is enormous; yet, drug development pipelines have started to run dry with limited targets available for inventing new antibacterial drugs. Consequently, it is important to uncover potential therapeutic targets. AREAS COVERED The authors review the current state of drug development strategies that are promising in terms of the development of novel and potent drugs to treat P. aeruginosa infection. EXPERT OPINION The prevention of P. aeruginosa infection is increasingly challenging. Furthermore, targeting key virulence regulators has great potential for developing novel anti-P. aeruginosa drugs. Additional promising strategies include bacteriophage therapy, immunotherapies, and antimicrobial peptides. Additionally, the authors believe that in the coming years, the overall network of molecular regulatory mechanism of P. aeruginosa virulence will be fully elucidated, which will provide more novel and promising drug targets for treating P. aeruginosa infections.
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- Xiaolong Shao
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota , Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong SAR, China.,Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong , Shenzhen, China
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Conditional antagonism in co-cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans: An intersection of ethanol and phosphate signaling distilled from dual-seq transcriptomics. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008783. [PMID: 32813693 PMCID: PMC7480860 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans are opportunistic pathogens whose interactions involve the secreted products ethanol and phenazines. Here, we describe the role of ethanol in mixed-species co-cultures by dual-seq analyses. P. aeruginosa and C. albicans transcriptomes were assessed after growth in mono-culture or co-culture with either ethanol-producing C. albicans or a C. albicans mutant lacking the primary ethanol dehydrogenase, Adh1. Analysis of the RNA-Seq data using KEGG pathway enrichment and eADAGE methods revealed several P. aeruginosa responses to C. albicans-produced ethanol including the induction of a non-canonical low-phosphate response regulated by PhoB. C. albicans wild type, but not C. albicans adh1Δ/Δ, induces P. aeruginosa production of 5-methyl-phenazine-1-carboxylic acid (5-MPCA), which forms a red derivative within fungal cells and exhibits antifungal activity. Here, we show that C. albicans adh1Δ/Δ no longer activates P. aeruginosa PhoB and PhoB-regulated phosphatase activity, that exogenous ethanol complements this defect, and that ethanol is sufficient to activate PhoB in single-species P. aeruginosa cultures at permissive phosphate levels. The intersection of ethanol and phosphate in co-culture is inversely reflected in C. albicans; C. albicans adh1Δ/Δ had increased expression of genes regulated by Pho4, the C. albicans transcription factor that responds to low phosphate, and Pho4-dependent phosphatase activity. Together, these results show that C. albicans-produced ethanol stimulates P. aeruginosa PhoB activity and 5-MPCA-mediated antagonism, and that both responses are dependent on local phosphate concentrations. Further, our data suggest that phosphate scavenging by one species improves phosphate access for the other, thus highlighting the complex dynamics at play in microbial communities. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida albicans are opportunistic pathogens that are frequently isolated from co-infections. Using a combination of dual-seq transcriptomics and genetics approaches, we found that ethanol produced by C. albicans stimulates the PhoB regulon in P. aeruginosa asynchronously with activation of the Pho4 regulon in C. albicans. We validated our result by showing that PhoB plays multiple roles in co-culture including orchestrating the competition for phosphate and the production of 5-methyl-phenazine-1-carboxylic acid; the P. aeruginosa phenazine response to C. albicans-produced ethanol depends on phosphate availability. The conditional stimulation of antifungal production in response to sub-inhibitory concentrations of ethanol only under phosphate limitation highlights the importance of considering nutrient concentrations in the analysis of co-culture interactions and suggests that the low-phosphate response in one species influences phosphate availability for the other.
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Khan F, Pham DTN, Oloketuyi SF, Kim YM. Regulation and controlling the motility properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 104:33-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-10201-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2019] [Accepted: 10/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Zhou N, Jiang Y, Bergquist TR, Lee AJ, Kacsoh BZ, Crocker AW, Lewis KA, Georghiou G, Nguyen HN, Hamid MN, Davis L, Dogan T, Atalay V, Rifaioglu AS, Dalkıran A, Cetin Atalay R, Zhang C, Hurto RL, Freddolino PL, Zhang Y, Bhat P, Supek F, Fernández JM, Gemovic B, Perovic VR, Davidović RS, Sumonja N, Veljkovic N, Asgari E, Mofrad MRK, Profiti G, Savojardo C, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Boecker F, Schoof H, Kahanda I, Thurlby N, McHardy AC, Renaux A, Saidi R, Gough J, Freitas AA, Antczak M, Fabris F, Wass MN, Hou J, Cheng J, Wang Z, Romero AE, Paccanaro A, Yang H, Goldberg T, Zhao C, Holm L, Törönen P, Medlar AJ, Zosa E, Borukhov I, Novikov I, Wilkins A, Lichtarge O, Chi PH, Tseng WC, Linial M, Rose PW, Dessimoz C, Vidulin V, Dzeroski S, Sillitoe I, Das S, Lees JG, Jones DT, Wan C, Cozzetto D, Fa R, Torres M, Warwick Vesztrocy A, Rodriguez JM, Tress ML, Frasca M, Notaro M, Grossi G, Petrini A, Re M, Valentini G, Mesiti M, Roche DB, Reeb J, Ritchie DW, Aridhi S, Alborzi SZ, Devignes MD, Koo DCE, Bonneau R, Gligorijević V, Barot M, Fang H, Toppo S, Lavezzo E, Falda M, Berselli M, Tosatto SCE, Carraro M, Piovesan D, Ur Rehman H, Mao Q, Zhang S, Vucetic S, Black GS, Jo D, Suh E, Dayton JB, Larsen DJ, Omdahl AR, McGuffin LJ, Brackenridge DA, Babbitt PC, Yunes JM, Fontana P, Zhang F, Zhu S, You R, Zhang Z, Dai S, Yao S, Tian W, Cao R, Chandler C, Amezola M, Johnson D, Chang JM, Liao WH, Liu YW, Pascarelli S, Frank Y, Hoehndorf R, Kulmanov M, Boudellioua I, Politano G, Di Carlo S, Benso A, Hakala K, Ginter F, Mehryary F, Kaewphan S, Björne J, Moen H, Tolvanen MEE, Salakoski T, Kihara D, Jain A, Šmuc T, Altenhoff A, Ben-Hur A, Rost B, Brenner SE, Orengo CA, Jeffery CJ, Bosco G, Hogan DA, Martin MJ, O'Donovan C, Mooney SD, Greene CS, Radivojac P, Friedberg I. The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens. Genome Biol 2019; 20:244. [PMID: 31744546 PMCID: PMC6864930 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-019-1835-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational annotation of protein function. RESULTS Here, we report on the results of the third CAFA challenge, CAFA3, that featured an expanded analysis over the previous CAFA rounds, both in terms of volume of data analyzed and the types of analysis performed. In a novel and major new development, computational predictions and assessment goals drove some of the experimental assays, resulting in new functional annotations for more than 1000 genes. Specifically, we performed experimental whole-genome mutation screening in Candida albicans and Pseudomonas aureginosa genomes, which provided us with genome-wide experimental data for genes associated with biofilm formation and motility. We further performed targeted assays on selected genes in Drosophila melanogaster, which we suspected of being involved in long-term memory. CONCLUSION We conclude that while predictions of the molecular function and biological process annotations have slightly improved over time, those of the cellular component have not. Term-centric prediction of experimental annotations remains equally challenging; although the performance of the top methods is significantly better than the expectations set by baseline methods in C. albicans and D. melanogaster, it leaves considerable room and need for improvement. Finally, we report that the CAFA community now involves a broad range of participants with expertise in bioinformatics, biological experimentation, biocuration, and bio-ontologies, working together to improve functional annotation, computational function prediction, and our ability to manage big data in the era of large experimental screens.
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- Naihui Zhou
- Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.,Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ames, IA, USA
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- Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.,Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.,Program in Computer Science, Ames, IA, USA
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- Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.,Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ames, IA, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Ames, IA, USA
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.,European Molecular Biolo gy Labora tory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.,Department of Computer Engineering, Iskenderun Technical University, Hatay, Turkey
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
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- CanSyL, Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.,Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain.,Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain
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- INB Coordination Unit, Life Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,(former) INB GN2, Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry, Institute of Nuclear Sciences VINCA, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Molecular Cell Biomechanics Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.,Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Bologna Biocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.,National Research Council, IBIOM, Bologna, Italy
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- Bologna Biocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Bologna Biocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Bologna Biocomputing Group, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- University of Bonn: INRES Crop Bioinformatics, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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- INRES Crop Bioinformatics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Gianforte School of Computing, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
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- University of Bristol, Computer Science, Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Computational Biology of Infection Research, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Brunswick, Germany.,RESIST, DFG Cluster of Excellence 2155, Brunswick, Germany
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- Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, Université libre de Bruxelles - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.,Machine Learning Group, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.,Artificial Intelligence lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- European Molecular Biolo gy Labora tory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridge, UK
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- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- University of Kent, School of Computing, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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- University of Kent, School of Computing, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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- University of Missouri, Computer Science, Columbia, Missouri, USA.,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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- Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland.,Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology-i12, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany
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- Faculty for Informatics, Garching, Germany.,Department for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Garching, Germany.,School of Computing Sciences and Computer Engineering, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki Institute of Life Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Houston, TX, USA
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Houston, TX, USA
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Houston, TX, USA
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- National TsingHua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Department of Electrical Engineering in National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
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- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
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- University of California San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, California, USA
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- Department of Computational Biology and Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, and Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, UK.,Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia.,Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, England
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- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, London, UK
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- The Francis Crick Institute, Biomedical Data Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom.,Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,The Francis Crick Institute, Biomedical Data Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,The Francis Crick Institute, Biomedical Data Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.,The Francis Crick Institute, Biomedical Data Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.,SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- Cardiovascular Proteomics Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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- Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Università degli Studi di Milano - Computer Science Department - AnacletoLab, Milan, Milan, Italy.,Institut de Biologie Computationnelle, LIRMM, CNRS-UMR 5506, Universite de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology-i12, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology-i12, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany
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- University of Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- University of Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- University of Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France.,University of Lorraine, Nancy, Lorraine, France.,Inria, Nancy, France
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- NYU Center for Data Science, New York, 10010, NY, USA.,Flatiron Institute, CCB, New York, 10010, NY, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology (CCB), Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Data Science, New York University, New York, 10011, NY, USA
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- Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- CNR Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy.,Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, Pakistan
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.,University of California, Riverside, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Bioinformatics Research Group, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Bioinformatics Research Group, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Bioinformatics Research Group, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Bioinformatics Research Group, Provo, UT, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA.,Bioinformatics Research Group, Provo, UT, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, England, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA
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- UC Berkeley - UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA.,Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 94158, CA, USA
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- Research and Innovation Center, Edmund Mach Foundation, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China.,Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China
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- School of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
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- School of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
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- School of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
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- School of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
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- School of Computer Science and Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.,Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, Shanghai, China.,Department of Pediatrics, Brain Tumor Center, Division of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division, Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.,Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences Engineering Division (CEMSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Control and Computer Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, TO, Italy
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- Control and Computer Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, TO, Italy
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- Control and Computer Engineering Department, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, TO, Italy
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- Department of Future Technologies, Turku NLP Group, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), Turku, Finland
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- Department of Future Technologies, Turku NLP Group, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Future Technologies, Turku NLP Group, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), Turku, Finland
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- Department of Future Technologies, Turku NLP Group, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,University of Turku Graduate School (UTUGS), Turku, Finland.,Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Turku, Finland
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- Department of Future Technologies, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Turku, Turku, FI-20014, Finland.,Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Agora, Vesilinnantie 3, Turku, FI-20500, Finland
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- Department of Future Technologies, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Turku, Turku, FI-20014, Finland.,Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Agora, Vesilinnantie 3, Turku, FI-20500, Finland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 47907, IN, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 45229, OH, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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- Division of Electronics, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology-i12, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany.,Institute for Food and Plant Sciences WZW, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
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- Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.,Childhood Cancer Data Lab, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
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Liu S, Zheng Y, Ma Y, Sarwar A, Zhao X, Luo T, Yang Z. Evaluation and Proteomic Analysis of Lead Adsorption by Lactic Acid Bacteria. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E5540. [PMID: 31698858 PMCID: PMC6888269 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20225540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Revised: 11/02/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Heavy metals are a growing threat to human health due to the resulting damage to the ecology; the removal of heavy metals by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been a focus of many studies. In this study, 10 LAB strains were evaluated for their ability to absorb and tolerate lead. Lactobacillus plantarum YW11 was found to possess the strongest ability of lead absorbing and tolerance, with the rate of absorption as high as 99.9% and the minimum inhibitory concentration of lead on YW11 higher than 1000 mg/L. Based on the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) proteomics analysis of YW11, a total of 2009 proteins were identified both in the lead-treated strain and the control without the lead treatment. Among these proteins, 44 different proteins were identified. The abundance of 25 proteins increased significantly, and 19 proteins decreased significantly in the treatment group. These significantly differential abundant proteins are involved in the biological processes of amino acid and lipid metabolism, energy metabolism, cell wall biosynthesis, and substance transport. This study contributed further understanding of the molecular mechanism of L. plantarum in the binding and removal of lead to explore its potential application in counteracting heavy metal pollution of environment, food, and other fields.
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- Shaoli Liu
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Food Nutrition and Human Health, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China; (S.L.)
- Beijing Engineering and Technology Research Center of Food Additives, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China
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Oral Polyphosphate Suppresses Bacterial Collagenase Production and Prevents Anastomotic Leak Due to Serratia marcescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Ann Surg 2019; 267:1112-1118. [PMID: 28166091 DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000002167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the effect of polyphosphate on intestinal bacterial collagenase production and anastomotic leak in mice undergoing colon surgery. BACKGROUND We have previously shown that anastomotic leak can be caused by intestinal pathogens that produce collagenase. Because bacteria harbor sensory systems to detect the extracellular concentration of phosphate which controls their virulence, we tested whether local phosphate administration in the form of polyphosphate could attenuate pathogen virulence and prevent leak without affecting bacterial growth. METHODS Groups of mice underwent a colorectal anastomosis which was then exposed to collagenolytic strains of either Serratia marcescens or Pseudomonas aeruginosa via enema. Mice were then randomly assigned to drink water or water supplemented with a 6-mer of polyphosphate (PPi-6). All mice were sacrificed on postoperative day 10 and anastomoses assessed for leakage, the presence of collagenolytic bacteria, and anastomotic PPi-6 concentration. RESULTS PPi-6 markedly attenuated collagenase and biofilm production, and also swimming and swarming motility in both S. marcescens and P. aeruginosa while supporting their normal growth. Mice drinking PPi-6 demonstrated increased levels of PPi-6 and decreased colonization of S. marcescens and P. aeruginosa, and collagenase activity at anastomotic tissues. PPi-6 prevented anastomotic abscess formation and leak in mice after anastomotic exposure to S. marcescens and P. aeruginosa. CONCLUSIONS Polyphosphate administration may be an alternative approach to prevent anastomotic leak induced by collagenolytic bacteria with the advantage of preserving the intestinal microbiome and its colonization resistance.
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Qiao Z, Huang J, Cao Y, Shi K, Wang G. Genetics and proteomics analyses reveal the roles of PhoB1 and PhoB2 regulators in bacterial responses to arsenite and phosphate. Res Microbiol 2019; 170:263-271. [PMID: 31279088 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2019.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2019] [Revised: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 06/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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In bacteria, phosphate (Pi) stress response is governed by the two-component regulatory system, sensor kinase PhoR and its cognate response regulatory protein PhoB. The arsenite [As(III)]-oxidizing bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens GW4 contains two phoB genes, phoB1 and phoB2. phoB1 is adjacent to As(III)-oxidizing genes, however, the functions of PhoB1 and PhoB2 remain unclear. Here, phoB1 and phoB2 were each deleted in-frame, and proteomics, qRT-PCR and protein-DNA interaction were performed. We found that (1) phoB1 and phoB2 were both upregulated under low Pi conditions and phoB1 was induced by As(III), but phoB2 was not; (2) deletion of phoB1 reduced As(III)-oxidizing efficiency and protein-DNA interaction analysis showed PhoB1 could interact with aioXSR promoter to regulate As(III) oxidation; (3) deletions of phoB1 or phoB2 both reduced exopolysaccharides (EPS) synthesis; and (4) PhoB1 influenced Pi uptake, As(III) oxidation, EPS synthesis, TCA cycle, energy production and stress response with As(III), and PhoB2 was associated with Pi uptake and EPS synthesis in low Pi conditions. These results showed PhoB1 and PhoB2 were both involved in Pi acquisition, PhoB1 was more important with As(III) and PhoB2 played a major role without As(III). Strain GW4 uses these two regulators to survive under low Pi and arsenic-rich environments.
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- Zixu Qiao
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PR China.
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Bhagirath AY, Li Y, Patidar R, Yerex K, Ma X, Kumar A, Duan K. Two Component Regulatory Systems and Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-Negative Pathogens. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E1781. [PMID: 30974906 PMCID: PMC6480566 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20071781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Gram-negative pathogens such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are the leading cause of nosocomial infections throughout the world. One commonality shared among these pathogens is their ubiquitous presence, robust host-colonization and most importantly, resistance to antibiotics. A significant number of two-component systems (TCSs) exist in these pathogens, which are involved in regulation of gene expression in response to environmental signals such as antibiotic exposure. While the development of antimicrobial resistance is a complex phenomenon, it has been shown that TCSs are involved in sensing antibiotics and regulating genes associated with antibiotic resistance. In this review, we aim to interpret current knowledge about the signaling mechanisms of TCSs in these three pathogenic bacteria. We further attempt to answer questions about the role of TCSs in antimicrobial resistance. We will also briefly discuss how specific two-component systems present in K. pneumoniae, A. baumannii, and P. aeruginosa may serve as potential therapeutic targets.
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- Anjali Y Bhagirath
- Department of Oral Biology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Oral Biology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Oral Biology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Oral Biology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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- Department of Oral Biology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
- Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, 780 Bannatyne Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9, Canada.
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Sheng S, Xin L, Yam JKH, Salido MM, Khong NZJ, Liu Q, Chea RA, Li HY, Yang L, Liang ZX, Xu L. The MapZ-Mediated Methylation of Chemoreceptors Contributes to Pathogenicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:67. [PMID: 30804897 PMCID: PMC6370697 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa is notorious for causing acute and chronic infections in humans. The ability to infect host by P. aeruginosa is dependent on a complex cellular signaling network, which includes a large number of chemosensory signaling pathways that rely on the methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs). We previously found that the second messenger c-di-GMP-binding adaptor MapZ modulates the methylation of an amino acid-detecting MCP by directly interacting with a chemotaxis methyltransferase CheR1. The current study further expands our understanding of the role of MapZ in regulating chemosensory pathways by demonstrating that MapZ suppresses the methylation of multiple MCPs in P. aeruginosa PAO1. The MCPs under the control of MapZ include five MCPs (Aer, CtpH, CptM, PctA, and PctB) for detecting oxygen/energy, inorganic phosphate, malate and amino acids, and three MCPs (PA1251, PA1608, and PA2867) for detecting unknown chemoattractant or chemorepellent. Chemotaxis assays showed that overexpression of MapZ hampered the taxis of P. aeruginosa toward chemoattractants and scratch-wounded human cells. Mouse infection experiments demonstrated that a dysfunction in MapZ regulation had a profound negative impact on the dissemination of P. aeruginosa and resulted in attenuated bacterial virulence. Together, the results imply that by controlling the methylation of various MCPs via the adaptor protein MapZ, c-di-GMP exerts a profound influence on chemotactic responses and bacterial pathogenesis.
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- Shuo Sheng
- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.,Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team of Sociomicrobiology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.,Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team of Sociomicrobiology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.,Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control, Integrative Microbiology Research Centre, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.,Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team of Sociomicrobiology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
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Li T, Mei Y, He B, Sun X, Li J. Reducing Quorum Sensing-Mediated Virulence Factor Expression and Biofilm Formation in Hafnia alvei by Using the Potential Quorum Sensing Inhibitor L-Carvone. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3324. [PMID: 30687295 PMCID: PMC6334668 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Quorum sensing (QS), one of the most remarkable microbiological discoveries, is considered a global gene regulatory mechanism for various traits in bacteria, including virulence and spoilage. Hafnia alvei, an opportunistic pathogen and a dominant psychrophile, uses the lux-type QS system to regulate the production of virulence factors and biofilms, which are harmful to the food industry. Based on the QS interference approach, this study aimed to reveal the efficacy of L-carvone at sublethal concentrations on QS-regulated virulence factors and biofilm formation in H. alvei. QS inhibitory activity was demonstrated by the reduction in swinging motility (61.49%), swarming motility (74.94%), biofilm formation (52.41%) and acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) production (0.5 μL/mL). Additionally, in silico analysis and RT-qPCR studies for AHL synthase HalI and QS transcriptional regulator HalR revealed a plausible molecular mechanism for QS inhibition by L-carvone. These findings suggest that L-carvone (a main component of spearmint essential oils) could be used as a novel quorum sensing inhibitor to control H. alvei in the food industry.
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- Tingting Li
- Key Laboratory of Biotechnology and Bioresources Utilization (Dalian Minzu University), Ministry of Education, Dalian, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, Jinzhou, China.,National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, Jinzhou, China.,National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, Jinzhou, China.,National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, China
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- College of Food Science and Technology, Bohai University, Jinzhou, China.,National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Storage, Processing and Safety Control Technology for Fresh Agricultural and Aquatic Products, Jinzhou, China
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Barriuso J, Hogan DA, Keshavarz T, Martínez MJ. Role of quorum sensing and chemical communication in fungal biotechnology and pathogenesis. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2018; 42:627-638. [PMID: 29788231 DOI: 10.1093/femsre/fuy022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Microbial cells do not live in isolation in their environment, but rather they communicate with each other using chemical signals. This sophisticated mode of cell-to-cell signalling, known as quorum sensing, was first discovered in bacteria, and coordinates the behaviour of microbial population behaviour in a cell-density-dependent manner. More recently, these mechanisms have been described in eukaryotes, particularly in fungi, where they regulate processes such as pathogenesis, morphological differentiation, secondary metabolite production and biofilm formation. In this manuscript, we review the information available to date on these processes in yeast, dimorphic fungi and filamentous fungi. We analyse the diverse chemical 'languages' used by different groups of fungi, their possible cross-talk and interkingdom interactions with other organisms. We discuss the existence of these mechanisms in multicellular organisms, the ecophysiological role of QS in fungal colonisation and the potential applications of these mechanisms in biotechnology and pathogenesis.
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- Jorge Barriuso
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Westminster, London W1W 6UW, UK
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Francis VI, Stevenson EC, Porter SL. Two-component systems required for virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2018; 364:3828290. [PMID: 28510688 PMCID: PMC5812489 DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnx104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2017] [Accepted: 05/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a versatile opportunistic pathogen capable of infecting a broad range of hosts, in addition to thriving in a broad range of environmental conditions outside of hosts. With this versatility comes the need to tightly regulate its genome to optimise its gene expression and behaviour to the prevailing conditions. Two-component systems (TCSs) comprising sensor kinases and response regulators play a major role in this regulation. This minireview discusses the growing number of TCSs that have been implicated in the virulence of P. aeruginosa, with a special focus on the emerging theme of multikinase networks, which are networks comprising multiple sensor kinases working together, sensing and integrating multiple signals to decide upon the best response. The networks covered in depth regulate processes such as the switch between acute and chronic virulence (GacS network), the Cup fimbriae (Roc network and Rcs/Pvr network), the aminoarabinose modification of lipopolysaccharide (a network involving the PhoQP and PmrBA TCSs), twitching motility and virulence (a network formed from the Chp chemosensory pathway and the FimS/AlgR TCS), and biofilm formation (Wsp chemosensory pathway). In addition, we highlight the important interfaces between these systems and secondary messenger signals such as cAMP and c-di-GMP.
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- Vanessa I Francis
- Biosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX 4QD, UK
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- Biosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX 4QD, UK
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- Biosciences, Geoffrey Pope Building, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX 4QD, UK
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Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a Regulates Multiple Stages of Plant Colonization via the Bacteriophytochrome BphP1. mBio 2017; 8:mBio.01178-17. [PMID: 29066541 PMCID: PMC5654926 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01178-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Light may be an important environmental signal for plant-associated bacteria, particularly those that live on leaves. An integrated network of red/far-red- and blue-light-responsive photosensory proteins is known to inhibit swarming motility in the foliar plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a. Here we elucidated factors in the red/far-red-light-sensing bacteriophytochrome BphP1 signal transduction pathway and report evidence for a role of BphP1 in multiple stages of the P. syringae B728a life cycle. We report that BphP1 signaling involves the downstream regulator Bsi (bacteriophytochrome-regulated swarming inhibitor) and an acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) signal. Loss of bphP1 or bsi resulted in the early initiation of swarm tendrils during swarming motility, a phenotype that was dependent on red/far-red light and reversed by exogenous AHL, illustrating that the BphP1-Bsi-AHL pathway inhibits the transition from a sessile state to a motile state. Loss of bphP1 or bsi resulted in larger water-soaked lesions induced on bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) pods and enhanced movement from soil and buried plant tissues to seeds, demonstrating that BphP1 and Bsi negatively regulate virulence and bacterial movement through soil to seeds. Moreover, BphP1, but not Bsi, contributed to leaf colonization; loss of bphP1 reduced survival on leaves immediately following inoculation but enhanced the size of the subsequently established populations. Neither Bsi nor Smp, a swarm motility-promoting regulator identified here, affected leaf colonization, indicating that BphP1-mediated contributions to leaf colonization are, at least in part, independent of swarming motility. These results demonstrate that P. syringae B728a red-light sensing involves a multicomponent, branched regulatory pathway that affects several stages of its life cycle. Microbes on plants are particularly well positioned to exploit light cues based on the importance of light to plant growth. Photosensory proteins enable organisms to sense light and respond to light, but their roles in the life cycles of plant microbes are poorly understood. This study investigated the cellular components and ecological roles of red/far-red-light sensing in the foliar bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. The study demonstrated that a bacteriophytochrome photosensory protein functions via a multicomponent, branched regulatory pathway that operates primarily through red/far-red-light-mediated inhibition. This pathway negatively regulates the transition from sessile to motile states under conditions conducive to swarming motility. It also negatively regulates virulence on bean pods, movement through soil to seeds, and survival following inoculation on leaves, but it positively contributes to the eventual establishment of leaf-borne populations. These results provide strong evidence that light sensing modulates behaviors at multiple stages in the life cycle of a nonphotosynthetic, plant microbe.
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Tan J, Doing G, Lewis KA, Price CE, Chen KM, Cady KC, Perchuk B, Laub MT, Hogan DA, Greene CS. Unsupervised Extraction of Stable Expression Signatures from Public Compendia with an Ensemble of Neural Networks. Cell Syst 2017; 5:63-71.e6. [PMID: 28711280 PMCID: PMC5532071 DOI: 10.1016/j.cels.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 04/11/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Cross-experiment comparisons in public data compendia are challenged by unmatched conditions and technical noise. The ADAGE method, which performs unsupervised integration with denoising autoencoder neural networks, can identify biological patterns, but because ADAGE models, like many neural networks, are over-parameterized, different ADAGE models perform equally well. To enhance model robustness and better build signatures consistent with biological pathways, we developed an ensemble ADAGE (eADAGE) that integrated stable signatures across models. We applied eADAGE to a compendium of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gene expression profiling experiments performed in 78 media. eADAGE revealed a phosphate starvation response controlled by PhoB in media with moderate phosphate and predicted that a second stimulus provided by the sensor kinase, KinB, is required for this PhoB activation. We validated this relationship using both targeted and unbiased genetic approaches. eADAGE, which captures stable biological patterns, enables cross-experiment comparisons that can highlight measured but undiscovered relationships.
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- Jie Tan
- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Wang Y, Lu T, Yin X, Zhou Z, Li S, Liu M, Hu S, Bi D, Li Z. A Novel RAYM_RS09735/RAYM_RS09740 Two-Component Signaling System Regulates Gene Expression and Virulence in Riemerella anatipestifer. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:688. [PMID: 28484437 PMCID: PMC5399024 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Accepted: 04/04/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The Gram-negative bacterium Riemerella anatipestifer is an important waterfowl pathogen, causing major economic losses to the duck-producing industry. However, little is known of the virulence factors that mediate pathogenesis during R. anatipestifer infection. In this study, RAYM_RS09735 and RAYM_RS09740 were predicted to form a two-component signaling system (TCS) through bioinformatics analysis. This TCS was highly conserved across the Flavobacteriaceae. A mutant YMΔRS09735/RS09740 strain was constructed to investigate the role of the RAYM_RS09735/RAYM_RS09740 TCS in R. anatipestifer virulence and gene regulation. The median lethal dose (LD50) of YMΔRS09735/RS09740 was found to be >1011 CFU, equivalent to that of avirulent bacterial strains. The bacterial abundances of the YMΔRS09735/RS09740 strain in the heart, brain, liver, blood, and spleen were significantly lower than that of the wild-type R. anatipestifer YM strain. Pathological analysis using hematoxylin and eosin staining showed that, compared to the wild-type, the mutant YMΔRS09735/RS09740 strain caused significantly less virulence in infected ducklings. RNAseq and real-time PCR analysis indicated that the RAYM_RS09735/RAYM_RS09740 TCS is a PhoP/PhoR system. This is a novel type of TCS for Gram-negative bacteria. The TCS was also found to be a global regulator of expression in R. anatipestifer, with 112 genes up-regulated and 693 genes down-regulated in the YMΔRS09735/RS09740 strain (~33% genes demonstrated differential expression). In summary, we have reported the first PhoP/PhoR TCS identified in a Gram-negative bacterium and demonstrated that it is involved in virulence and gene regulation in R. anatipestifer.
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- Ying Wang
- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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- Department of Preventive Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China.,State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural UniversityWuhan, China
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Peng YC, Lu C, Li G, Eichenbaum Z, Lu CD. Induction of the pho regulon and polyphosphate synthesis against spermine stress in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol 2017; 104:1037-1051. [PMID: 28370665 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on spermine requires a functional γ-glutamylpolyamine synthetase PauA2. Not only subjected to growth inhibition by spermine, the pauA2 mutant became more sensitive to β-lactam antibiotics in human serum. To explore PauA2 as a potential target of drug development, suppressors of the pauA2 mutant, which alleviated toxicity, were isolated from selection plates containing spermine. These suppressors share common phenotypic changes including delayed growth rate, retarded swarming motility, and pyocyanin overproduction. Genome resequencing of a representative suppressor revealed a unique C599 T mutation at the phoU gene that results in Ser200 Leu substitution and a constitutive expression of the Pho regulon. Identical phenotypes were also observed in a ΔpauA2ΔphoU double knockout mutant and complemented by the wild-type phoU gene. Accumulation of polyphosphate granules and spermine resistance in the suppressor were reversed concomitantly when expressing exopolyphosphatase PPX from a recombinant plasmid, or by the introduction of deletion alleles in pstS pstC for phosphate uptake, phoB for Pho regulation, and ppk for polyphosphate synthesis. In conclusion, this study identifies polyphosphate accumulation due to an activated Pho regulon and phosphate uptake by the phoU mutation as a potential protection mechanism against spermine toxicity.
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- Yu-Chih Peng
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.,Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA
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Aggarwal S, Somani VK, Gupta V, Kaur J, Singh D, Grover A, Bhatnagar R. Functional characterization of PhoPR two component system and its implication in regulating phosphate homeostasis in Bacillus anthracis. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2017; 1861:2956-2970. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2015] [Revised: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 09/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Quorum Sensing and the Use of Quorum Quenchers as Natural Biocides to Inhibit Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. Antibiotics (Basel) 2016; 5:antibiotics5040039. [PMID: 27983678 PMCID: PMC5187520 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics5040039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Revised: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 12/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) are one of the main protagonist groups of biocorrosion in the seawater environment. Given their principal role in biocorrosion, it remains a crucial task to develop strategies to reduce the abundance of SRBs. Conventional approaches include the use of biocides and antibiotics, which can impose health, safety, and environmental concerns. This review examines an alternative approach to this problem. This is achieved by reviewing the role of quorum sensing (QS) in SRB populations and its impact on the biofilm formation process. Genome databases of SRBs are mined to look for putative QS systems and homologous protein sequences representative of autoinducer receptors or synthases. Subsequently, this review puts forward the potential use of quorum quenchers as natural biocides against SRBs and outlines the potential strategies for the implementation of this approach.
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Santos-Beneit F. The Pho regulon: a huge regulatory network in bacteria. Front Microbiol 2015; 6:402. [PMID: 25983732 PMCID: PMC4415409 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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One of the most important achievements of bacteria is its capability to adapt to the changing conditions of the environment. The competition for nutrients with other microorganisms, especially in the soil, where nutritional conditions are more variable, has led bacteria to evolve a plethora of mechanisms to rapidly fine-tune the requirements of the cell. One of the essential nutrients that are normally found in low concentrations in nature is inorganic phosphate (Pi). Bacteria, as well as other organisms, have developed several systems to cope for the scarcity of this nutrient. To date, the unique mechanism responding to Pi starvation known in detail is the Pho regulon, which is normally controlled by a two component system and constitutes one of the most sensible and efficient regulatory mechanisms in bacteria. Many new members of the Pho regulon have emerged in the last years in several bacteria; however, there are still many unknown questions regarding the activation and function of the whole system. This review describes the most important findings of the last three decades in relation to Pi regulation in bacteria, including: the PHO box, the Pi signaling pathway and the Pi starvation response. The role of the Pho regulon in nutritional regulation cross-talk, secondary metabolite production, and pathogenesis is discussed in detail.
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- Fernando Santos-Beneit
- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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Kumar L, Chhibber S, Kumar R, Kumar M, Harjai K. Zingerone silences quorum sensing and attenuates virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Fitoterapia 2015; 102:84-95. [PMID: 25704369 DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2015.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa plays an imperative role in virulence factor, biofilm formation and antimicrobial resistance. Blocking quorum sensing pathways are viewed as viable anti-virulent therapy in association with traditional antimicrobial therapy. Anti-quorum sensing dietary phytochemicals with may prove to be a safe and viable choice as anti-virulent drug candidates. Previously, our lab proved zingerone as potent anti-biofilm agent hence; further its anti-virulent and anti-quorum activities were evaluated. Zingerone, besides decreasing swimming, swarming and twitching phenotypes of P. aeruginosa PAO1, reduced biofilm forming capacity and production of virulence factors including rhamnolipid, elastase, protease, pyocyanin, cell free and cell bound hemolysin (p<0.001) indicating anti-virulent property attributing towards attenuation of virulence of P. aeruginosa. Further zingerone not only had marked effect on the production of quorum sensing signal molecules by clinical isolates of P. aeruginosa but also showed significant interference with the activation of QS reporter strains. To study the mechanism of blocking quorum sensing cascade, in silico analysis was carried out. Anti-QS activity was attributed to interference with the ligand receptor interaction of zingerone with QS receptors (TraR, LasR, RhlR and PqsR). Zingerone showed a good comparative docking score to respective autoinducer molecules which was even higher than that of vanillin, a proven anti-quorum sensing phytochemical. The results of the present study revealed the anti-quorum sensing activity of zingerone targeting ligand-receptor interaction, hence proposing zingerone as a suitable anti-virulent drug candidate against P. aeruginosa infections.
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- Lokender Kumar
- Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India.
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Das D, Baruah R, Sarma Roy A, Singh AK, Deka Boruah HP, Kalita J, Bora TC. Complete genome sequence analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa N002 reveals its genetic adaptation for crude oil degradation. Genomics 2014; 105:182-90. [PMID: 25546474 DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2014.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2014] [Revised: 12/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The present research work reports the whole genome sequence analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain N002 isolated from crude oil contaminated soil of Assam, India having high crude oil degradation ability. The whole genome of the strain N002 was sequenced by shotgun sequencing using Ion Torrent method and complete genome sequence analysis was done. It was found that the strain N002 revealed versatility for degradation, emulsification and metabolizing of crude oil. Analysis of cluster of orthologous group (COG) revealed that N002 has significantly higher gene abundance for cell motility, lipid transport and metabolism, intracellular trafficking, secretion and vesicular transport, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, transport and catabolism, signal transduction mechanism and transcription than average levels found in other genome sequences of the same bacterial species. However, lower gene abundance for carbohydrate transport and metabolism, replication, recombination and repair, translation, ribosomal structure, biogenesis was observed in N002 than average levels of other bacterial species.
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- Dhrubajyoti Das
- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India.
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat 785006, Assam, India
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Chekabab SM, Harel J, Dozois CM. Interplay between genetic regulation of phosphate homeostasis and bacterial virulence. Virulence 2014; 5:786-93. [PMID: 25483775 DOI: 10.4161/viru.29307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Bacterial pathogens, including those of humans, animals, and plants, encounter phosphate (Pi)-limiting or Pi-rich environments in the host, depending on the site of infection. The environmental Pi-concentration results in modulation of expression of the Pho regulon that allows bacteria to regulate phosphate assimilation pathways accordingly. In many cases, modulation of Pho regulon expression also results in concomitant changes in virulence phenotypes. Under Pi-limiting conditions, bacteria use the transcriptional-response regulator PhoB to translate the Pi starvation signal sensed by the bacterium into gene activation or repression. This regulator is employed not only for the maintenance of bacterial Pi homeostasis but also to differentially regulate virulence. The Pho regulon is therefore not only a regulatory circuit of phosphate homeostasis but also plays an important adaptive role in stress response and bacterial virulence. Here we focus on recent findings regarding the mechanisms of gene regulation that underlie the virulence responses to Pi stress in Vibrio cholerae, Pseudomonas spp., and pathogenic E. coli.
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- Samuel Mohammed Chekabab
- a Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie Porcine et Avicole (CRIPA); Université de Montréal; Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire ; Saint-Hyacinthe , QC Canada
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Gonzalez D, Richez M, Bergonzi C, Chabriere E, Elias M. Crystal structure of the phosphate-binding protein (PBP-1) of an ABC-type phosphate transporter from Clostridium perfringens. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6636. [PMID: 25338617 PMCID: PMC5381212 DOI: 10.1038/srep06636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2014] [Accepted: 09/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Phosphate limitation is an important environmental stress that affects the metabolism of various organisms and, in particular, can trigger the virulence of numerous bacterial pathogens. Clostridium perfringens, a human pathogen, is one of the most common causes of enteritis necroticans, gas gangrene and food poisoning. Here, we focused on the high affinity phosphate-binding protein (PBP-1) of an ABC-type transporter, responsible for cellular phosphate uptake. We report the crystal structure (1.65 Å resolution) of the protein in complex with phosphate. Interestingly, PBP-1 does not form the short, low-barrier hydrogen bond with phosphate that is typical of previously characterized phosphate-binding proteins, but rather a canonical hydrogen bond. In its unique binding configuration, PBP-1 forms an unusually high number of hydrogen bonds (14) with the phosphate anion. Discrimination experiments reveal that PBP-1 is the least selective PBP characterised so far and is able to discriminate phosphate from its close competing anion, arsenate, by ~150-fold.
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- Daniel Gonzalez
- URMITE UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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- URMITE UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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- 1] URMITE UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France [2] University of Minnesota, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics &Biotechnology Institute, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- URMITE UMR CNRS-IRD 6236, IFR48, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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- University of Minnesota, Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics &Biotechnology Institute, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Neznansky A, Blus-Kadosh I, Yerushalmi G, Banin E, Opatowsky Y. The Pseudomonas aeruginosa phosphate transport protein PstS plays a phosphate-independent role in biofilm formation. FASEB J 2014; 28:5223-33. [PMID: 25223609 DOI: 10.1096/fj.14-258293] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is a primary cause of nosocomial infections. A key element in PA pathogenicity is its ability to form biofilms that withstand eradication by antibiotics and the immune system. Biofilm formation is controlled by phosphate signaling and here we provide evidence that PstS, a subunit of the PA Pst phosphate transporter, has a surprising role in this process. Using X-ray crystallography, we characterized the unique underpinnings of PstS phosphate binding and identified an unusual 15-residue N' loop extension. Structure-based experiments showed that PstS-mediated phosphate uptake and biofilm formation are in fact two distinct functions. Specifically, a point mutation that abrogated phosphate binding did not eliminate biofilm formation; conversely, truncation of the N' loop diminished the ability of PA to form biofilms but had no effect on phosphate binding and uptake. This places PstS at a junction that separately controls phosphate sensing and uptake and the ultrastructure organization of bacteria.
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- Avi Neznansky
- Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and
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- Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology Institute, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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