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ArticlePloS one2012

Transcriptional regulator PerA influences biofilm-associated, platelet binding, and metabolic gene expression in Enterococcus faecalis.

Scott M Maddox, Phillip S Coburn, Nathan Shankar, Tyrrell Conway

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Article in PloS one, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Scott M MaddoxAdvanced Center for Genome Technology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America.
Phillip S Coburn
Nathan Shankar
Tyrrell Conway

Funding

GROWTH AND COLONIZATION OF THE INTESTINE BY E COLIR01AI048945 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA NORMAN · PI CONWAY, TYRRELL · 2000 to 2008
$3.4M
Symbiosis of E. coli and the Intestinal Microbiota in a Mouse ModelR01GM095370 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA · PI CONWAY, TYRRELL · 2011 to 2014
$1.6M
Growth and Colonization of the Intestine by E. coliR56AI048945 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA · PI CONWAY, TYRRELL · 2009 to 2009
$462k
NIAID NIH HHS AI48945NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI048945NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI048945NIGMS NIH HHS GM095370NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095370
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and a leading cause of nosocomial infections, traits facilitated by the ability to quickly acquire and transfer virulence determinants. A 150 kb pathogenicity island (PAI) comprised of genes contributing to virulence is found in many enterococcal isolates and is known to undergo horizontal transfer. We have shown that the PAI-encoded transcriptional regulator PerA contributes to pathogenicity in the mouse peritonitis infection model. In this study, we used whole-genome microarrays to determine the PerA regulon. The PerA regulon is extensive, as transcriptional analysis showed 151 differentially regulated genes. Our findings reveal that PerA coordinately regulates genes important for metabolism, amino acid degradation, and pathogenicity. Further transcriptional analysis revealed that PerA is influenced by bicarbonate. Additionally, PerA influences the ability of E. faecalis to bind to human platelets. Our results suggest that PerA is a global transcriptional regulator that coordinately regulates genes responsible for enterococcal pathogenicity.

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BiofilmsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialRegulonAnimalsBiomarkersBlood PlateletsEnterococcus faecalisGenomic IslandsGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsHumansMiceOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisPeritonitisPhenotypeReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionBiomarkersRNA, Messenger

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PMID22496800
PMCPMC3319582

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