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Ira Jain Jessica L. Danger Cameron Burgess Timsy Uppal Paul Sumby 《Molecular microbiology》2020,113(1):190-207
The group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes diseases that range from mild (e.g. pharyngitis) to severely invasive (e.g. necrotizing fasciitis). Strain- and serotype-specific differences influence the ability of isolates to cause individual diseases. At the center of this variability is the CovR/S two-component system and the accessory protein RocA. Through incompletely defined mechanisms, CovR/S and RocA repress the expression of more than a dozen immunomodulatory virulence factors. Alleviation of this repression is selected for during invasive infections, leading to the recovery of covR, covS or rocA mutant strains. Here, we investigated how RocA promotes CovR/S activity, identifying that RocA is a pseudokinase that interacts with CovS. Disruption of CovS kinase or phosphatase activities abolishes RocA function, consistent with RocA acting through the modulation of CovS activity. We also identified, in conflict with a previous study, that the RocA regulon includes the secreted protease-encoding gene speB. Finally, we discovered an inverse correlation between the virulence of wild-type, rocA mutant, covS mutant and covR mutant strains during invasive infection and their fitness in an ex vivo upper respiratory tract model. Our data inform on mechanisms that control GAS disease potential and provide an explanation for observed strain- and serotype-specific variability in RocA function. 相似文献
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Regulatory gene mutation: a driving force behind group a Streptococcus strain‐ and serotype‐specific variation
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Data from multiple bacterial pathogens are consistent with regulator‐encoding genes having higher mutation frequencies than the genome average. Such mutations drive both strain‐ and type‐ (e.g., serotype, haplotype) specific phenotypic heterogeneity, and may challenge public health due to the potential of variants to circumvent established treatment and/or preventative regimes. Here, using the human bacterial pathogen the group A Streptococcus (GAS; S. pyogenes) as a model organism, we review the types and regulatory‐, phenotypic‐, and disease‐specific consequences of naturally occurring regulatory gene mutations. Strain‐specific regulator mutations that will be discussed include examples that transform isolates into hyper‐invasive forms by enhancing expression of immunomodulatory virulence factors, and examples that promote asymptomatic carriage of the organism. The discussion of serotype‐specific regulator mutations focuses on serotype M3 GAS isolates, and how the identified rewiring of regulatory networks in this serotype may be contributing to a decades old epidemiological association of M3 isolates with particularly severe invasive infections. We conclude that mutation plays an outsized role in GAS pathogenesis and has clinical relevance. Given the phenotypic variability associated with regulatory gene mutations, the rapid examination of these genes in infecting isolates may inform with respect to potential patient complications and treatment options. 相似文献
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The small regulatory RNA FasX enhances group A Streptococcus virulence and inhibits pilus expression via serotype‐specific targets
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Jessica L. Danger Tram N. Cao Tran H. Cao Poulomee Sarkar Jeanette Treviño Kathryn J. Pflughoeft Paul Sumby 《Molecular microbiology》2015,96(2):249-262
Bacterial pathogens commonly show intra‐species variation in virulence factor expression and often this correlates with pathogenic potential. The group A Streptococcus (GAS) produces a small regulatory RNA (sRNA), FasX, which regulates the expression of pili and the thrombolytic agent streptokinase. As GAS serotypes are polymorphic regarding (a) FasX abundance, (b) the fibronectin, collagen, T‐antigen (FCT) region of the genome, which contains the pilus genes (nine different FCT‐types), and (c) the streptokinase‐encoding gene (ska) sequence (two different alleles), we sought to test whether FasX regulates pilus and streptokinase expression in a serotype‐specific manner. Parental, fasX mutant and complemented derivatives of serotype M1 (ska‐2, FCT‐2), M2 (ska‐1, FCT‐6), M6 (ska‐2, FCT‐1) and M28 (ska‐1, FCT‐4) isolates were compared. While FasX reduced pilus expression in each serotype, the molecular basis differed, as FasX bound, and inhibited the translation of, different FCT‐region mRNAs. FasX enhanced streptokinase expression in each serotype, although the degree of regulation varied. Finally, we established that the regulation afforded by FasX enhances GAS virulence, assessed by a model of bacteremia using human plasminogen‐expressing mice. Our data are the first to identify and characterize serotype‐specific regulation by an sRNA in GAS, and to show an sRNA directly contributes to GAS virulence. 相似文献
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The Streptococcus pyogenes orphan protein tyrosine phosphatase,SP‐PTP,possesses dual specificity and essential virulence regulatory functions
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Sashi Kant Shivani Agarwal Preeti Pancholi Vijay Pancholi 《Molecular microbiology》2015,97(3):515-540
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human pathogen that causes high morbidity and mortality. GAS lacks a gene encoding tyrosine kinase but contains one encoding tyrosine phosphatase (SP‐PTP). Thus, GAS is thought to lack tyrosine phosphorylation, and the physiological significance of SP‐PTP is, therefore, questionable. Here, we demonstrate that SP‐PTP possesses dual phosphatase specificity for Tyr‐ and Ser/Thr‐phosphorylated GAS proteins, such as Ser/Thr kinase (SP‐STK) and the SP‐STK‐phosphorylated CovR and WalR proteins. Phenotypic analysis of GAS mutants lacking SP‐PTP revealed that the phosphatase activity per se positively regulates growth, cell division and the ability to adhere to and invade host cells. Furthermore, A549 human lung cells infected with GAS mutants lacking SP‐PTP displayed increased Ser‐/Thr‐/Tyr‐phosphorylation. SP‐PTP also differentially regulates the expression of ~50% of the total GAS genes, including several virulence genes potentially through the two‐component regulators, CovR, WalR and PTS/HPr regulation of Mga. Although these mutants exhibit attenuated virulence, a GAS mutant overexpressing SP‐PTP is hypervirulent. Our study provides the first definitive evidence for the presence and importance of Tyr‐phosphorylation in GAS and the relevance of SP‐PTP as an important therapeutic target. 相似文献
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GacA is essential for Group A Streptococcus and defines a new class of monomeric dTDP‐4‐dehydrorhamnose reductases (RmlD)
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Samantha L. van der Beek Yoann Le Breton Andrew T. Ferenbach Robert N. Chapman Daan M. F. van Aalten Iva Navratilova Geert‐Jan Boons Kevin S. McIver Nina M. van Sorge Helge C. Dorfmueller 《Molecular microbiology》2015,98(5):946-962
The sugar nucleotide dTDP‐L‐rhamnose is critical for the biosynthesis of the Group A Carbohydrate, the molecular signature and virulence determinant of the human pathogen Group A Streptococcus (GAS). The final step of the four‐step dTDP‐L‐rhamnose biosynthesis pathway is catalyzed by dTDP‐4‐dehydrorhamnose reductases (RmlD). RmlD from the Gram‐negative bacterium Salmonella is the only structurally characterized family member and requires metal‐dependent homo‐dimerization for enzymatic activity. Using a biochemical and structural biology approach, we demonstrate that the only RmlD homologue from GAS, previously renamed GacA, functions in a novel monomeric manner. Sequence analysis of 213 Gram‐negative and Gram‐positive RmlD homologues predicts that enzymes from all Gram‐positive species lack a dimerization motif and function as monomers. The enzymatic function of GacA was confirmed through heterologous expression of gacA in a S. mutans rmlD knockout, which restored attenuated growth and aberrant cell division. Finally, analysis of a saturated mutant GAS library using Tn‐sequencing and generation of a conditional‐expression mutant identified gacA as an essential gene for GAS. In conclusion, GacA is an essential monomeric enzyme in GAS and representative of monomeric RmlD enzymes in Gram‐positive bacteria and a subset of Gram‐negative bacteria. These results will help future screens for novel inhibitors of dTDP‐L‐rhamnose biosynthesis. 相似文献
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Anna Henningham Masaya Yamaguchi Ramy K. Aziz Kirsten Kuipers Cosmo Z. Buffalo Samira Dahesh Biswa Choudhury Jeremy Van Vleet Yuka Yamaguchi Lisa M. Seymour Nouri L. Ben Zakour Lingjun He Helen V. Smith Keith Grimwood Scott A. Beatson Partho Ghosh Mark J. Walker Victor Nizet Jason N. Cole 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2014,289(46):32303-32315
A recent analysis of group A Streptococcus (GAS) invasive infections in Australia has shown a predominance of M4 GAS, a serotype recently reported to lack the antiphagocytic hyaluronic acid (HA) capsule. Here, we use molecular genetics and bioinformatics techniques to characterize 17 clinical M4 isolates associated with invasive disease in children during this recent epidemiology. All M4 isolates lacked HA capsule, and whole genome sequence analysis of two isolates revealed the complete absence of the hasABC capsule biosynthesis operon. Conversely, M4 isolates possess a functional HA-degrading hyaluronate lyase (HylA) enzyme that is rendered nonfunctional in other GAS through a point mutation. Transformation with a plasmid expressing hasABC restored partial encapsulation in wild-type (WT) M4 GAS, and full encapsulation in an isogenic M4 mutant lacking HylA. However, partial encapsulation reduced binding to human complement regulatory protein C4BP, did not enhance survival in whole human blood, and did not increase virulence of WT M4 GAS in a mouse model of systemic infection. Bioinformatics analysis found no hasABC homologs in closely related species, suggesting that this operon was a recent acquisition. These data showcase a mutually exclusive interaction of HA capsule and active HylA among strains of this leading human pathogen. 相似文献
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Zachary W. Stetzner Dengfeng Li Wenchao Feng Mengyao Liu Guanghui Liu James Wiley Benfang Lei 《PloS one》2015,10(6)
The M3 Serotype of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is one of the three most frequent serotypes associated with severe invasive GAS infections, such as necrotizing fasciitis, in the United States and other industrialized countries. The basis for this association and hypervirulence of invasive serotype M3 GAS is not fully understood. In this study, the sequenced serotype M3 strain, MGAS315, and serotype M28 strain, MGAS6180, were characterized in parallel to determine whether contemporary M3 GAS has a higher capacity to invade soft tissues than M28 GAS. In subcutaneous infection, MGAS315 invaded almost the whole skin, inhibited neutrophil recruitment and TNF-α production, and was lethal in subcutaneous infection of mice, whereas MGAS6180 did not invade skin, induced robust neutrophil infiltration and TNF-α production, and failed to kill mice. In contrast to MGAS6180, MGAS315 had covS G1370T mutation. Either replacement of the covS
1370T gene with wild-type covS in MGAS315 chromosome or in trans expression of wild-type covS in MGAS315 reduced expression of CovRS-controlled virulence genes hasA, spyCEP, and sse by >10 fold. MGAS315 covS
wt lost the capacity to extensively invade skin and to inhibit neutrophil recruitment and had attenuated virulence, indicating that the covS G1370T mutation critically contribute to the hypervirulence of MGAS315. Under the background of functional CovRS, MGAS315 covS
wt still caused greater lesions than MGAS6180, and, consistently under the background of covS deletion, MGAS6180 ΔcovS caused smaller lesions than MGAS315 ΔcovS. Thus, contemporary invasive M3 GAS has a higher capacity to evade neutrophil and TNF-α responses and to invade soft tissue than M28 GAS and that this skin-invading capacity of M3 GAS is maximized by natural CovRS mutations. These findings enhance our understanding of the basis for the frequent association of M3 GAS with necrotizing fasciitis. 相似文献
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Pathogenic mechanisms of invasive group A Streptococcus infections by influenza virus–group A Streptococcus superinfection
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The Group A Streptococcus serotype M2 pilus plays a role in host cell adhesion and immune evasion
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Jia‐Yun C. Tsai Jacelyn M. S. Loh Fiona Clow Natalie Lorenz Thomas Proft 《Molecular microbiology》2017,103(2):282-298
Group A Streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes, is a human pathogen that causes diseases ranging from skin and soft tissue infections to severe invasive diseases, such as toxic shock syndrome. Each GAS strain carries a particular pilus type encoded in the variable f ibronectin‐binding, c ollagen‐binding, T antigen (FCT) genomic region. Here, we describe the functional analysis of the serotype M2 pilus encoded in the FCT‐6 region. We found that, in contrast to other investigated GAS pili, the ancillary pilin 1 lacks adhesive properties. Instead, the backbone pilin is important for host cell adhesion and binds several host factors, including fibronectin and fibrinogen. Using a panel of recombinant pilus proteins, GAS gene deletion mutants and Lactococcus lactis gain‐of‐function mutants we show that, unlike other GAS pili, the FCT‐6 pilus also contributes to immune evasion. This was demonstrated by a delay in blood clotting, increased intracellular survival of the bacteria in macrophages, higher bacterial survival rates in human whole blood and greater virulence in a Galleria mellonella infection model in the presence of fully assembled FCT‐6 pili. 相似文献
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Izabela Sitkiewicz Nicole M Green Nina Guo Laurent Mereghetti James M Musser 《BMC microbiology》2011,11(1):65
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The genome of serotype M28 group A Streptococcus (GAS) strain MGAS6180 contains a novel genetic element named Region of Difference 2 (RD2) that encodes seven putative secreted extracellular proteins. RD2 is present in all serotype M28 strains and strains of several other GAS serotypes associated with female urogenital infections. We show here that the GAS RD2 element is present in strain MGAS6180 both as an integrative chromosomal form and a circular extrachromosomal element. RD2-like regions were identified in publicly available genome sequences of strains representing three of the five major group B streptococcal serotypes causing human disease. Ten RD2-encoded proteins have significant similarity to proteins involved in conjugative transfer of Streptococcus thermophilus integrative chromosomal elements (ICEs). 相似文献18.
Samantha L. van der Beek Azul Zorzoli Ebru anak Robert N. Chapman Kieron Lucas Benjamin H. Meyer Dimitrios Evangelopoulos Luiz Pedro S. de Carvalho Geert‐Jan Boons Helge C. Dorfmueller Nina M. van Sorge 《Molecular microbiology》2019,111(4):951-964
Biosynthesis of the nucleotide sugar precursor dTDP‐L‐rhamnose is critical for the viability and virulence of many human pathogenic bacteria, including Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus; GAS), Streptococcus mutans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Streptococcal pathogens require dTDP‐L‐rhamnose for the production of structurally similar rhamnose polysaccharides in their cell wall. Via heterologous expression in S. mutans, we confirmed that GAS RmlB and RmlC are critical for dTDP‐L‐rhamnose biosynthesis through their action as dTDP‐glucose‐4,6‐dehydratase and dTDP‐4‐keto‐6‐deoxyglucose‐3,5‐epimerase enzymes respectively. Complementation with GAS RmlB and RmlC containing specific point mutations corroborated the conservation of previous identified catalytic residues. Bio‐layer interferometry was used to identify and confirm inhibitory lead compounds that bind to GAS dTDP‐rhamnose biosynthesis enzymes RmlB, RmlC and GacA. One of the identified compounds, Ri03, inhibited growth of GAS, other rhamnose‐dependent streptococcal pathogens as well as M. tuberculosis with an IC50 of 120–410 µM. Importantly, we confirmed that Ri03 inhibited dTDP‐L‐rhamnose formation in a concentration‐dependent manner through a biochemical assay with recombinant rhamnose biosynthesis enzymes. We therefore conclude that inhibitors of dTDP‐L‐rhamnose biosynthesis, such as Ri03, affect streptococcal and mycobacterial viability and can serve as lead compounds for the development of a new class of antibiotics that targets dTDP‐rhamnose biosynthesis in pathogenic bacteria. 相似文献
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Anuradha Vajjala Debabrata Biswas Wei Hong Tay Emanuel Hanski Kimberly A. Kline 《Cellular microbiology》2019,21(1)
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human pathogen that causes infections ranging from mild to fulminant and life‐threatening. Biofilms have been implicated in acute GAS soft‐tissue infections such as necrotising fasciitis (NF). However, most in vitro models used to study GAS biofilms have been designed to mimic chronic infections and insufficiently recapitulate in vivo conditions along with the host–pathogen interactions that might influence biofilm formation. Here, we establish and characterise an in vitro model of GAS biofilm development on mammalian cells that simulates microcolony formation observed in a mouse model of human NF. We show that on mammalian cells, GAS forms dense aggregates that display hallmark biofilm characteristics including a 3D architecture and enhanced tolerance to antibiotics. In contrast to abiotic‐grown biofilms, host‐associated biofilms require the expression of secreted GAS streptolysins O and S (SLO, SLS) that induce endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the host. In an in vivo mouse model, the streptolysin null mutant is attenuated in both microcolony formation and bacterial spread, but pretreatment of soft‐tissue with an ER stressor restores the ability of the mutant to form wild‐type‐like microcolonies that disseminate throughout the soft tissue. Taken together, we have identified a new role of streptolysin‐driven ER stress in GAS biofilm formation and NF disease progression. 相似文献
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K. Lakshmana Gowda J. John Melbin S. A. Patil S. R. Bindu Rani M. K. Sanjay C. T. Shivannavar K. N. Brahmadathan 《World journal of microbiology & biotechnology》2011,27(2):319-323
A total of sixty non repetitive isolates of group A streptococci (GAS) recovered from throat cultures of asymptomatic school
children (n = 36), school children with clinical pharyngitis (n = 9) and hospital patients with clinical pharyngitis (n = 4) as well as diverse clinical samples from invasive GAS disease (n = 11) were subjected to emm typing. A total of 35 emm types including 3 new subtypes were identified among them. Types emm 12 (16.6%) and emm 71 (6.6%) were the most prevalent. The distribution of emm types identified among school children were similar to those encountered among invasive isolates but was significantly different
from those reported elsewhere in India. Our study confirms the high diversity among Indian GAS isolates as well as significant
regional differences among the distribution of emm types. 相似文献