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Rewiring of the FtsH regulatory network by a single nucleotide change in saeS of Staphylococcus aureus.

Scientific reports | 2017

In the Gram-positive pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, the membrane-bound ATP-dependent metalloprotease FtsH plays a critical role in resistance to various stressors. However, the molecular mechanism of the FtsH functions is not known. Here, we identified core FtsH target proteins in S. aureus. In the strains Newman and USA300, the abundance of 33 proteins were altered in both strains, of which 11 were identified as core FtsH substrate protein candidates. In the strain Newman and some other S. aureus strains, the sensor histidine kinase SaeS has an L18P (T53C in saeS) substitution, which transformed the protein into an FtsH substrate. Due to the increase of SaeS L18P in the ftsH mutant, Eap, a sae-regulon protein, was also increased in abundance, causing the Newman-specific cell-aggregation phenotype. Regardless of the strain background, however, the ftsH mutants showed lower virulence and survival in a murine infection model. Our study illustrates the elasticity of the bacterial regulatory network, which can be rewired by a single substitution mutation.

Pubmed ID: 28814746 RIS Download

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  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AI095488
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R21 AI121664
  • Agency: NIAID NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R56 AI095488

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