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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2013

Autoregulation of PhoP/PhoQ and positive regulation of the cyclic AMP receptor protein-cyclic AMP complex by PhoP in Yersinia pestis.

Yiquan Zhang, Li Wang, Yanping Han, Yanfeng Yan, Yafang Tan, Lei Zhou, Yujun Cui, Zongmin Du, Xiaoyi Wang, Yujing Bi and 5 more

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yiquan ZhangState Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China.
Li Wang
Yanping Han
Yanfeng Yan
Yafang Tan
Lei Zhou
Yujun Cui
Zongmin Du
Xiaoyi Wang
Yujing Bi
Huiying Yang
Yajun Song
Pingping Zhang
Dongsheng Zhou
Ruifu Yang
Institute of Microbiology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Yersinia pestis is one of the most dangerous bacterial pathogens. PhoP and cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) are global regulators of Y. pestis, and they control two distinct regulons that contain multiple virulence-related genes. The PhoP regulator and its cognate sensor PhoQ constitute a two-component regulatory system. The regulatory activity of CRP is triggered only by binding to its cofactor cAMP, which is synthesized from ATP by adenylyl cyclase (encoded by cyaA). However, the association between the two regulatory systems PhoP/PhoQ and CRP-cAMP is still not understood for Y. pestis. In the present work, the four consecutive genes YPO1635, phoP, phoQ, and YPO1632 were found to constitute an operon, YPO1635-phoPQ-YPO1632, transcribed as a single primary RNA, whereas the last three genes comprised another operon, phoPQ-YPO1632, transcribed with two adjacent transcriptional starts. Through direct PhoP-target promoter association, the transcription of these two operons was stimulated and repressed by PhoP, respectively; thus, both positive autoregulation and negative autoregulation of PhoP/PhoQ were detected. In addition, PhoP acted as a direct transcriptional activator of crp and cyaA. The translational/transcriptional start sites, promoter -10 and -35 elements, PhoP sites, and PhoP box-like sequences were determined for these PhoP-dependent genes, providing a map of the PhoP-target promoter interaction. The CRP and PhoP regulons have evolved to merge into a single regulatory cascade in Y. pestis because of the direct regulatory association between PhoP/PhoQ and CRP-cAMP.

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Adenylyl CyclasesBacterial ProteinsCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Receptor ProteinGene Expression Regulation, BacterialMolecular Sequence DataOperonPromoter Regions, GeneticRegulonTranscription, GeneticTranscription Initiation SiteVirulence FactorsYersinia pestisAdenylyl CyclasesBacterial ProteinsCyclic AMPCyclic AMP Receptor ProteinPhoP protein, BacteriaPhoQ protein, BacteriaVirulence Factors

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PMID23264579
PMCPMC3571323
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