A Sensor of the Two-Component System CpxA Affects Expression of the Type III Secretion System through Posttranscriptional Processing of InvE
AUTOR(ES)
Mitobe, Jiro
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The chief function of the Cpx two-component system is perceiving various cell envelope stresses, but CpxR is also known to regulate the expression of the type III secretion system (TTSS) of Shigella sonnei through transcription of the primary regulator virF. Here, we have isolated novel cpxA mutants that exhibited decreased TTSS expression from Escherichia coli HW1273, which carries the virulence plasmid of S. sonnei. The cpxA deletion strain of HW1273 expressed β-galactosidase activity levels from the virF-lacZ fusion similar to those of HW1273. However, the second regulator InvE (VirB) and the TTSS component IpaB proteins were apparently expressed at a low level. In the cpxA strain, β-galactosidase activity levels from the invE-lacZ transcriptional fusion remained similar to those of HW1273, whereas the β-galactosidase activity level from the translational fusion of invE-lacZ was reduced to 21% of that of HW1273. Therefore, the deletion of the cpxA gene influenced TTSS expression chiefly at the posttranscriptional processing of InvE. In addition, the cpxA deletion strain of S. sonnei showed the same phenotype. These results indicate that the Cpx two-component system is involved in virulence expression through posttranscriptional processing of the regulatory protein InvE, a novel feature of the Cpx two-component system in posttranscriptional processing and virulence expression of Shigella.
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