Transcriptional autoregulation of the RcsCDB phosphorelay system in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Autor: Pescaretti MLM; Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) and Instituto de Química Biologica 'Dr Bernabe Bloj', Chacabuco 461, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina., López FE; Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) and Instituto de Química Biologica 'Dr Bernabe Bloj', Chacabuco 461, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina., Morero RD; Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) and Instituto de Química Biologica 'Dr Bernabe Bloj', Chacabuco 461, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina., Delgado MA; Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán) and Instituto de Química Biologica 'Dr Bernabe Bloj', Chacabuco 461, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Microbiology (Reading, England) [Microbiology (Reading)] 2010 Dec; Vol. 156 (Pt 12), pp. 3513-3521. Date of Electronic Publication: 2010 Aug 19.
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.041319-0
Abstrakt: The RcsCDB (Rcs) phosphorelay system is involved in the regulation of many envelope genes, such as those responsible for capsule synthesis, flagella production and O-antigen chain length, as well as in other cellular activities of several enteric bacteria. The system is composed of three proteins: the sensor RcsC, the response regulator RcsB, and the phospho-transfer intermediary protein RcsD. Previously, we reported two important aspects of this system: (a) rcsB gene expression is under the control of P(rcsDB) and P(rcsB) promoters, and (b) rcsD gene transcription decreases when the bacteria reach high levels of the RcsB regulator. In the present work, we demonstrate that the RcsB protein represses rcsD gene expression by binding directly to the P(rcsDB) promoter, negatively autoregulating the Rcs system. Furthermore, we report the physiological role of the RcsB regulator, which is able to modify bacterial swarming behaviour when expressed under the control of the P(rcsB) promoter.
Databáze: MEDLINE