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Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium HtrA: regulation of expression and role of the chaperone and protease activities during infection

Lewis, Claire, Skovierova, Henrieta, Rowley, Gary, Rezuchova, Bronislava, Homerova, Dagmar, Stevenson, Andrew, Spencer, Janice, Farn, Jacinta +2 more·2009·Microbiology

Abstract

HtrA is a bifunctional stress protein required by many bacterial pathogens to successfully cause infection. Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) htrA mutants are defective in intramacrophage survival and are highly attenuated in mice. Transcription of htrA in Escherichia coli is governed by a single promoter that is dependent on σ E (RpoE). S. Typhimurium htrA also possesses a σ E-dependent promoter; however, we found that the absence of σ E had little effect on production of HtrA by S. Typhimurium. This suggests that additional promoters control expression of htrA in S. Typhimurium. We identified three S. Typhimurium htrA promoters. Only the most proximal promoter, htrAp3, was σ E dependent. The other promoters, htrAp1 and htrAp2, are probably recognized by the principal sigma factor σ 70. These two promoters were constitutively expressed but were also slightly induced by heat shock. Thus expression of htrA is different in S. Typhimurium and E. coli. The role of HtrA is to deal with misfolded/damaged proteins in the periplasm. It can do this either by degrading (protease activity) or folding/capturing (chaperone/sequestering, C/S, activity) the aberrant protein. We investigated which of these functions are important to S. Typhimurium in vitro and in vivo. Point or deletion mutants of htrA that encode variant HtrA molecules have been used in previous studies to investigate the role of different regions of HtrA in C/S and protease activity. These htrA variants were placed under the control of the S. Typhimurium htrAP123 promoters and expressed in a S. Typhimurium htrA mutant, GVB1343. Both wild-type HtrA and HtrA (HtrA S210A) lacking protease activity enabled GVB1343 to grow at high temperature (46 °C). Both molecules also significantly enhanced the growth/survival of GVB1343 in the liver and spleen of mice during infection. However, expression of wild-type HtrA enabled GVB1343 to grow to much higher levels than expression of HtrA S210A. Thus both the protease and C/S functions of HtrA operate in vivo during infection but the protease function is probably more important. Absence of either PDZ domain completely abolished the ability of HtrA to complement the growth defects of GVB1343 in vitro or in vivo.

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  • H. pylori, Salmonella typhimurium and Campylobacter jejuni interact with the host cell epithelium and establish infection by HtrA.

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Authors
Lewis, C., Skovierova, H., Rowley, G., Rezuchova, B., Homerova, D., Stevenson, A., Spencer, J., Farn, J., Kormanec, J., & Roberts, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Glasgow (GB)
  • Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Science, Dubravska cesta 21, 845 51 Bratislava, Slovak Republik
  • University of East Anglia (GB)
Venue
Microbiology
Published
2009-03-01
Volume
155
Issue
3
Pages
873-881
ISSN
  • 1350-0872 (ISSN-L)
  • 1465-2080
OpenAlex
W2118603057
Cited by
54
References
45
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FWCI
2.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Microbiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ResearchOnline (acceptedVersion)
  • ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) (submittedVersion)
  • ResearchOnline (Glasgow Caledonian University) (submittedVersion)
  • UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (065027)
  • Slovenská Akadémia Vied
  • Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAV
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (PRS12222)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heat shock proteins research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
Keywords
HtrA, chaperone activity, proteolytic activity, sigma E, RpoE, sigma70, promoter analysis, gene expression regulation, intramacrophage survival, bacterial virulence, heat shock, protein degradation, mouse infection, attenuated strains
MeSH terms
Animals, Bacterial Proteins, Base Sequence, Escherichia coli, Female, Genes, Bacterial, Genetic Complementation Test, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Molecular Sequence Data, Peptide Hydrolases, Promoter Regions, Genetic, RNA, Bacterial, Salmonella Infections, Salmonella typhimurium, Sigma Factor, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Point Mutation, Sequence Deletion, Molecular Chaperones, Mice

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