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ArticleMolecular microbiology2016

Thiol-based switch mechanism of virulence regulator AphB modulates oxidative stress response in Vibrio cholerae.

Zhi Liu, Hui Wang, Zhigang Zhou, Ying Sheng, Nawar Naseer, Biao Kan, Jun Zhu

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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7 authors.

Zhi LiuDepartment of Biotechnology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Hui WangDepartment of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Zhigang ZhouDivision of Microbiology, Key Laboratory for Feed Biotechnology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
Ying ShengDepartment of Microbiology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Nawar NaseerDepartment of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
Biao KanDivision of Bacterial Infectious Diseases, State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 102206, China.
Jun ZhuDepartment of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.

Funding

ROS responses during Vibrio cholerae infectionR01AI120489 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ZHU, JUN · 2016 to 2020
$2.4M
Thiol-based switches in Vibrio cholerae pathogenesisR21AI109316 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ZHU, JUN · 2014 to 2015
$440k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120489NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI109316
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial pathogens display versatile gene expression to adapt to changing surroundings. For example, Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, utilizes distinct genetic programs to combat reactive oxygen species (ROS) in aquatic environments or during host infection. We previously reported that the virulence activator AphB in V. cholerae is involved in ROS resistance. Here by performing a genetic screen, we show that AphB represses ROS resistance gene ohrA, which is also repressed by another regulator, OhrR. Reduced forms of both AphB and OhrR directly bind to the ohrA promoter and repress its expression, whereas organic hydroperoxides such as cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) deactivate AphB and OhrR. OhrA is critical for V. cholerae adult mouse colonization but is dispensable when the mice are treated with antioxidants. Furthermore, similar to our previous finding that AphB and OhrR exhibit different reduction rates during the shift from oxic to anoxic environments, we found that AphB is also oxidized more slowly than OhrR under peroxide stress or exposure to oxygen. This differential regulation optimizes the expression of ohrA and contributes to V. cholerae's ability to survive in a variety of environmental niches that contain different levels of ROS.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsOxidation-ReductionOxidative StressPromoter Regions, GeneticRepressor ProteinsStress, PhysiologicalSulfhydryl CompoundsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription FactorsVibrio choleraeVirulenceAphB protein, Vibrio choleraeBacterial ProteinsRepressor ProteinsSulfhydryl CompoundsTrans-ActivatorsTranscription Factors

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