Publication Date:
2008-08-08
Description:
Bacterial pathogens trigger specialized virulence factor secretion systems on encountering host cells. The ESX-1 protein secretion system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-the causative agent of the human disease tuberculosis-delivers bacterial proteins into host cells during infection and is critical for virulence, but how it is regulated is unknown. Here we show that EspR (also known as Rv3849) is a key regulator of ESX-1 that is required for secretion and virulence in mice. EspR activates transcription of an operon that includes three ESX-1 components, Rv3616c-Rv3614c, whose expression in turn promotes secretion of ESX-1 substrates. EspR directly binds to and activates the Rv3616c-Rv3614c promoter and, unexpectedly, is itself secreted from the bacterial cell by the ESX-1 system that it regulates. Efflux of the DNA-binding regulator results in reduced Rv3616c-Rv3614c transcription, and thus reduced ESX-1 secretion. Our results reveal a direct negative feedback loop that regulates the activity of a secretion system essential for virulence. As the virulence factors secreted by the ESX-1 system are highly antigenic, fine control of secretion may be critical to successful infection.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862998/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862998/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Raghavan, Sridharan -- Manzanillo, Paolo -- Chan, Kaman -- Dovey, Cole -- Cox, Jeffery S -- AI51667/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI63302/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302-010001/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302-020001/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302-030001/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302-040001/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- P01 AI063302-050001/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI051667/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI051667-06/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI051667-07/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- R01 AI051667-08/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2008 Aug 7;454(7205):717-21. doi: 10.1038/nature07219.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, 600 16th Street, Campus Box 2200, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18685700" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bacterial Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism/secretion
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Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
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Macrophages/microbiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics/*pathogenicity
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Operon/genetics
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Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
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Transcription Factors/chemistry/*metabolism/*secretion
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Transcription, Genetic
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Transcriptional Activation
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Virulence/genetics
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Virulence Factors/genetics/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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