PMID:16938894
| Citation |
Tu, X, Latifi, T, Bougdour, A, Gottesman, S and Groisman, EA (2006) The PhoP/PhoQ two-component system stabilizes the alternative sigma factor RpoS in Salmonella enterica. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 103:13503-8 |
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| Abstract |
The sigma factor RpoS regulates the expression of many stress response genes and is required for virulence in several bacterial species. We now report that RpoS accumulates when Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is growing logarithmically in media with low Mg(2+) concentrations. This process requires the two-component regulatory system PhoP/PhoQ, which is specifically activated in low Mg(2+). We show that PhoP controls RpoS protein turnover by serving as a transcriptional activator of the iraP (yaiB) gene, which encodes a product that enhances RpoS stability by interacting with RssB, the protein that normally delivers RpoS to the ClpXP protease for degradation. Mutation of the phoP gene rendered Salmonella as sensitive to hydrogen peroxide as an rpoS mutant after growth in low Mg(2+). In Escherichia coli, low Mg(2+) leads to only modest RpoS stabilization, and iraP is not regulated by PhoP/PhoQ. These findings add the sigma factor RpoS to the regulatory proteins and two-component systems that are elevated in a PhoP/PhoQ-dependent fashion when Salmonella face low Mg(2+) environments. Our data also exemplify the critical differences in regulatory circuits that exist between the closely related enteric bacteria Salmonella and E. coli. |
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PubMed PMC1557385 Online version:10.1073/pnas.0606026103 |
| Keywords |
Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Base Sequence; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Models, Biological; Molecular Sequence Data; Salmonella enterica/classification; Salmonella enterica/genetics; Salmonella enterica/growth & development; Salmonella enterica/metabolism; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Sigma Factor/genetics; Sigma Factor/metabolism |
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