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Relaxation of DNA supercoiling leads to increased invasion of epithelial cells and protein secretion by Campylobacter jejuni
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Eoin Scanlan Laura Ardill Matthew V. X. Whelan Claire Shortt Jarlath E. Nally Billy Bourke Tadhg Ó Cróinín 《Molecular microbiology》2017,104(1):92-104
Invasion of intestinal epithelial cells by Campylobacter jejuni is a critical step during infection of the intestine by this important human pathogen. In this study we investigated the role played by DNA supercoiling in the regulation of invasion of epithelial cells and the mechanism by which this could be mediated. A significant correlation between more relaxed DNA supercoiling and an increased ability of C. jejuni strains to penetrate human epithelial cells was demonstrated. Directly inducing relaxation of DNA supercoiling in C. jejuni was shown to significantly increase invasion of epithelial cells. Mutants in the fibronectin binding proteins CadF and FlpA still displayed an increased invasion after treatment with novobiocin suggesting these proteins were not essential for the observed phenotype. However, a large increase in protein secretion from multiple C. jejuni strains upon relaxation of DNA supercoiling was demonstrated. This increase in protein secretion was not mediated by outer membrane vesicles and appeared to be dependent on an intact flagellar structure. This study identifies relaxation of DNA supercoiling as playing a key role in enhancing C. jejuni pathogenesis during infection of the human intestine and identifies proteins present in a specific invasion associated secretome induced by relaxation of DNA supercoiling. 相似文献
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Negative supercoiling of DNA by gyrase is inhibited in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium during adaptation to acid stress
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Aoife M. Colgan Heather J. Quinn Stefani C. Kary Lesley A. Mitchenall Anthony Maxwell Andrew D.S. Cameron Charles J. Dorman 《Molecular microbiology》2018,107(6):734-746
DNA in intracellular Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium relaxes during growth in the acidified (pH 4–5) macrophage vacuole and DNA relaxation correlates with the upregulation of Salmonella genes involved in adaptation to the macrophage environment. Bacterial ATP levels did not increase during adaptation to acid pH unless the bacterium was deficient in MgtC, a cytoplasmic‐membrane‐located inhibitor of proton‐driven F1F0 ATP synthase activity. Inhibiting ATP binding by DNA gyrase and topo IV with novobiocin enhanced the effect of low pH on DNA relaxation. Bacteria expressing novobiocin‐resistant (NovR) derivatives of gyrase or topo IV also exhibited DNA relaxation at acid pH, although further relaxation with novobiocin was not seen in the strain with NovR gyrase. Thus, inhibition of the negative supercoiling activity of gyrase was the primary cause of enhanced DNA relaxation in drug‐treated bacteria. The Salmonella cytosol reaches pH 5–6 in response to an external pH of 4–5: the ATP‐dependent DNA supercoiling activity of purified gyrase was progressively inhibited by lowering the pH in this range, as was the ATP‐dependent DNA relaxation activity of topo IV. We propose that DNA relaxation in Salmonella within macrophage is due to acid‐mediated impairment of the negative supercoiling activity of gyrase. 相似文献
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Chromosomal domains of supercoiling in Salmonella typhimurium 总被引:6,自引:2,他引:4
The chromosomes of enteric bacteria are divided into about 50 independently supercoiled domains. It is not known whether the net level of DNA supercoiling is similar in each domain, or whether the domains are differentially supercoiled. We have addressed this question genetically, using a supercoiling-sensitive promoter to probe the relative levels of supercoiling at defined points around the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome. We conclude that, within the limits of resolution of this approach, the level of supercoiling does not differ significantly between chromosomal domains, and that each domain responds in a similar fashion to factors that perturb supercoiling. These findings have implications for the organization of the bacterial genome. 相似文献
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S. Marvin Friedman Muhammad Malik Karl Drlica 《Molecular & general genetics : MGG》1995,248(4):417-422
A spontaneously occurring, nalidixic acid-resistant (NalR), thermotolerant (T/r) mutant ofEscherichia coli was isolated. Bacteriophage P1-mediated transduction showed that NalR mapped at or neargyr A, one of the two genes encoding DNA gyrase. Expression ofgyrA
+ from a plasmid rendered the mutant sensitive to nalidixic acid and to high temperature, the result expected for alleles mapping ingyrA. Plasmid linking number measurements, made with DNA from cells grown at 37° C or shifted to 48° C, revealed that supercoiling was about 12% less negative in the T/r mutant than in the parental strain. Each strain preferentially expressed two different proteins at 48° C. The genetic and supercoiling data indicate that thermo-tolerance can arise from an alteration in DNA gyrase that lowers supercoiling. This eubacterial study, when. coupled with those of archaebacteria, suggests that DNA relaxation is a general aspect of thermotolerance. 相似文献
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Michaela D. J. Blyton Sam C. Banks Rod Peakall David M. Gordon 《Molecular ecology》2013,22(15):4112-4122
The selective pressures that determine genotype abundance and distribution frequently vary between ecological levels. Thus, it is often unclear whether the same functional genotypes will become abundant at different levels and how selection acting at these different scales is linked. In this study, we examined whether particular functional genotypes, defined by the presence or absence of 34 genes, of commensal Escherichia coli strains were associated with within‐host abundance and/or host population abundance in a wild population of 54 adult mountain brushtail possums (Trichosurus cunninghami). Our results revealed that there was a positive correlation between a strain's relative abundance within individuals and the strain's abundance in the host population. We also found that strain abundance at both ecological levels was predicted by the same group of functional genes (agn43, focH, micH47, iroN, ygiL, ompT, kspmT2 and K1) that had associated patterns of occurrence. We propose that direct selection on the same functional genes at both levels may in part be responsible for the observed correlation between the ecological levels. However, a potential link between abundance within the host and excretion rate may also contribute. 相似文献
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The twisted 'life' of DNA in the cell: bacterial topoisomerases 总被引:11,自引:2,他引:9
Amy Luttinger 《Molecular microbiology》1995,15(4):601-606
DNA topoisomerases are essential to the cell for the regulation of DNA supercoiling levels and for chromosome decatenation. The proposed mechanisms for these reactions are essentially the same, except that a change in supercoiling is due to an intramolecular event, while decatenation requires an intermolecular event. The characterized bacterial topoisomerases appear capable of both types of reaction in vitro. Four DNA topoisomerases have been identified in Escherichia coli. Topoisomerase I, gyrase, and topoisomerase IV normally appear to have distinct essential functions within the cell, Gyrase and topoisomerase I are responsible for the regulation of DNA supercoiling. Both gyrase and topoisomerase IV are necessary for chromosomal decatenation. Multiple topoisomerases with distinct functions may give the cell more precise control over DNA topology by allowing tighter regulation of the principal enzymatic activities of these different proteins. 相似文献
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A I Lamond 《The EMBO journal》1985,4(2):501-507
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The Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and its close relative Salmonella enterica have made important contributions historically to our understanding of how bacteria control DNA supercoiling and of how supercoiling influences gene expression and vice versa. Now they are contributing again by providing examples where changes in DNA supercoiling affect the expression of virulence traits that are important for infectious disease. Available examples encompass both the earliest stages of pathogen–host interactions and the more intimate relationships in which the bacteria invade and proliferate within host cells. A key insight concerns the link between the physiological state of the bacterium and the activity of DNA gyrase, with downstream effects on the expression of genes with promoters that sense changes in DNA supercoiling. Thus the expression of virulence traits by a pathogen can be interpreted partly as a response to its own changing physiology. Knowledge of the molecular connections between physiology, DNA topology and gene expression offers new opportunities to fight infection. 相似文献
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