H-NS Regulates DNA Repair in Shigella
AUTOR(ES)
Palchaudhuri, Sunil
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We report a new role for H-NS in Shigella spp.: suppression of repair of DNA damage after UV irradiation. H-NS-mediated suppression of virulence gene expression is thermoregulated in Shigella, being functional at 30°C and nonfunctional at 37 to 40°C. We find that H-NS-mediated suppression of DNA repair after UV irradiation is also thermoregulated. Thus, Shigella flexneri M90T, incubated at 37 or 40°C postirradiation, shows up to 30-fold higher survival than when incubated at 30°C postirradiation. The hns mutants BS189 and BS208, both of which lack functional H-NS, show a high rate of survival (no repression) whether incubated at 30 or 40°C postirradiation. Suppression of DNA repair by H-NS is not mediated through genes on the invasion plasmid of S. flexneri M90T, since BS176, cured of plasmid, behaves identically to the parental M90T. Thus, in Shigella the nonfunctionality of H-NS permits enhanced DNA repair at temperatures encountered in the human host. However, pathogenic Escherichia coli strains (enteroinvasive and enterohemorrhagic E. coli) show low survival whether incubated at 30 or 40°C postirradiation. E. coli K-12 shows markedly different behavior; high survival postirradiation at both 30 and 40°C. These K-12 strains were originally selected from E. coli organisms subjected to both UV and X irradiation. Therefore, our data suggest that repair processes, extensively described for laboratory strains of E. coli, require experimental verification in pathogenic strains which were not adapted to irradiation.
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