Streptococcus gordonii Challisin protease is required for sensing cell--cell contact with Actinomyces oris
| Autor: | Natalio Krasnogor, Nicholas S. Jakubovics, Waleed K. Mohammed |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Proteases Arginine medicine.medical_treatment 030106 microbiology Mutant Dental Plaque Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences stomatognathic system Bacterial Proteins Gene expression medicine Extracellular Actinomyces Humans Saliva Regulation of gene expression Protease Ecology Streptococcus gordonii biology.organism_classification stomatognathic diseases Peptide Hydrolases |
| Zdroj: | FEMS microbiology ecology. 94(5) |
| ISSN: | 1574-6941 |
| Popis: | The ability of microorganisms to regulate gene expression is thought to be critical for survival and growth during the development of polymicrobial biofilms such as dental plaque. The commensal dental plaque colonizer, Streptococcus gordonii, responds to cell--cell contact (coaggregation) with Actinomyces oris by regulating >20 genes, including those involved in arginine biosynthesis. We hypothesized that an S. gordonii extracellular protease is critical for sensing by providing amino acids that modulate gene expression. S. gordonii coaggregated strongly with A. oris in buffer, saliva or chemically defined medium (CDM). In wild-type S. gordonii, expression of arginine biosynthesis genes argC and argG increased within two hours' growth in CDM in monocultures, but not following coaggregation with A. oris. By contrast, coaggregation of A. oris with an S. gordonii mutant lacking sgc, encoding the extracellular protease Challisin, resulted in increases in argC and argG gene expression that were similar to monocultures. Genetic complementation of sgc restored the ability of S. gordonii to sense coaggregation with A. oris. Coaggregation enabled growth of S. gordonii in low/no arginine and disruption of sgc did not affect this ability. We propose that extracellular bacterial proteases may be key mediators of cell--cell contact sensing by diverse microbial species. |
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