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ArticleArchives of microbiology2020

Overexpression of phzM contributes to much more production of pyocyanin converted from phenazine-1-carboxylic acid in the absence of RpoS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Kewen Wang, Le Kai, Kailu Zhang, Mengyue Hao, Yanjie Yu, Xinyu Xu, Zhifen Yu, Lijuan Chen, Xiaoyan Chi, Yihe Ge

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Article in Archives of microbiology, 2020. 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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9 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kewen Wang *Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Le Kai *Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Kailu Zhang *Department of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Mengyue HaoDepartment of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Yanjie YuDepartment of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Xinyu XuDepartment of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China.
Zhifen YuAffiliated Hospital, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
Lijuan ChenAffiliated Hospital, Ludong University, Yantai, 264025, China.
Xiaoyan ChiDepartment of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China. chixiaoyan@ldu.edu.cn.
Yihe GeDepartment of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Ludong University, Yantai, 264000, China. geyihe@ldu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7938-8292
Ludong University · CN

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of China (CN) 31260080Natural Science Foundation of China (CN) 31571997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a key virulence factor that often causes heavy damages to airway and lung in patients. Conversion of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid to pyocyanin involves an extrametabolic pathway that contains two enzymes encoded, respectively, by phzM and phzS. In this study, with construction of the rpoS-deficient mutant, we first found that although phenazine production increased, pyocyanin produced in the mutant YTΔrpoS was fourfold much higher than that in the wild-type strain YT. To investigate this issue, we constructed phzM-lacZ fusion on a vector and on the chromosome. By quantifying β-galactosidase activities, we confirmed that expression of the phzM was up-regulated when the rpoS gene was inactivated. However, no changes occurred in the expression of phzS and phzH when the rpoS was knocked out. Taken together, overproduction of the SAM-dependent methyltransferase (PhzM) might contribute to the increased pyocyanin in the absence of RpoS in P. aeruginosa.

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Bacterial ProteinsHumansMethyltransferasesMixed Function OxygenasesPhenazinesPseudomonas aeruginosaPyocyanineSigma FactorVirulence Factors1-phenazinecarboxylic acidBacterial ProteinsMethyltransferasesMixed Function OxygenasesPhenazinesPhzM protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosaPhzS protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosaPyocyanineSigma Factorsigma factor KatF protein, BacteriaVirulence FactorsPhenazine-1-carboxylic acidphzMPseudomonas aeruginosaPyocyaninRpoS

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