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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2007

The catabolite control protein CcpA binds to Pmga and influences expression of the virulence regulator Mga in the Group A streptococcus.

Audry C Almengor, Traci L Kinkel, Stephanie J Day, Kevin S McIver

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50 citing papers in PubMed, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Audry C AlmengorDepartment of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute MPRI, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4451, USA.
Traci L Kinkel
Stephanie J Day
Kevin S McIver
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY TRAINING GRANTT32AI007520 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI Julie K Pfeiffer · 1997 to 2026
$7.0M
PRD-Containing Virulence Regulators of Pathogenic StreptococciR01AI047928 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI MCIVER, KEVIN S. · 2001 to 2023
$6.5M
NIAID NIH HHS 5T32 AI07520NIAID NIH HHS AI47928NIAID NIH HHS AI-47928-SNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI047928NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007520
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) allows bacteria to alter metabolism in response to the availability of specific sugar sources, and increasing evidence suggests that CCR is involved in regulating virulence gene expression in many pathogens. A scan of the M1 SF370 group A streptococcus (GAS) genome using a Bacillus subtilis consensus identified a number of potential catabolite-responsive elements (cre) important for binding by the catabolite control protein A (CcpA), a mediator of CCR in gram-positive bacteria. Intriguingly, a putative cre was identified in the promoter region of mga upstream of its distal P1 start of transcription. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays showed that a His-CcpA fusion protein was capable of binding specifically to the cre in Pmga in vitro. Deletion analysis of Pmga using single-copy Pmga-gusA reporter strains found that Pmga P1 and its upstream cre were not required for normal autoregulated mga expression from Pmga P2 as long as Mga was produced from its native locus. In fact, the Pmga P1 region appeared to show a negative influence on Pmga P2 in these studies. However, deletion of the cre at the native Pmga resulted in a reduction of total mga transcripts as determined by real-time reverse transcription-PCR, supporting a role for CcpA in initial expression. Furthermore, normal transcriptional initiation from the Pmga P1 start site alone was dependent on the presence of the cre. Importantly, inactivation of ccpA in the M6 GAS strain JRS4 resulted in a reduction in Pmga expression and Mga protein levels in late-logarithmic-phase cell growth. These data support a role for CcpA in the early activation of the mga promoter and establish a link between CCR and Mga regulation in the GAS.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialAntigens, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCarbonCarrier ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsEscherichia coliGenome, BacterialPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingRepressor ProteinsStreptococcus pyogenesTranscription, GeneticTranscription Initiation SiteVirulenceAntigens, BacterialBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCarbonCarrier Proteinscatabolite control proteins, bacteriaDNA-Binding Proteinsmry protein, Streptococcus pyogenesRepressor Proteinsstreptococcal M protein

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PMID17905980
PMCPMC2168945
OpenAlexW2114126023

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