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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2015

Co(2+)-dependent gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae: opposite effect of Mn(2+) and Co(2+) on the expression of the virulence genes psaBCA, pcpA, and prtA.

Irfan Manzoor, Sulman Shafeeq, Tomas G Kloosterman, Oscar P Kuipers

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Irfan ManzoorDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands ; Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Sulman ShafeeqDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands ; Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden.
Tomas G KloostermanDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
Oscar P KuipersDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands.
University of Groningen · NLGovernment College University, Faisalabad · PKKarolinska Institutet · SE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Manganese (Mn(2+))-, zinc (Zn(2+))- and copper (Cu(2+)) play significant roles in transcriptional gene regulation, physiology, and virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae. So far, the effect of the important transition metal ion cobalt (Co(2+)) on gene expression of S. pneumoniae has not yet been explored. Here, we study the impact of Co(2+) stress on the transcriptome of S. pneumoniae strain D39. BLAST searches revealed that the genome of S. pneumoniae encodes a putative Co(2+)-transport operon (cbi operon), the expression of which we show here to be induced by a high Co(2+) concentration. Furthermore, we found that Co(2+), as has been shown previously for Zn(2+), can cause derepression of the genes of the PsaR virulence regulon, encoding the Mn(2+)-uptake system PsaBCA, the choline binding protein PcpA and the cell-wall associated serine protease PrtA. Interestingly, although Mn(2+) represses expression of the PsaR regulon and Co(2+) leads to derepression, both metal ions stimulate interaction of PsaR with its target promoters. These data will be discussed in the light of previous studies on similar metal-responsive transcriptional regulators.

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Co2+Mn2+PsaRStreptococcus pneumoniaetranscriptional regulation

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