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Diguanylate cyclases control magnesium-dependent motility of Vibrio fischeri.

Abstract：

:Flagellar biogenesis and hence motility of Vibrio fischeri depends upon the presence of magnesium. In the absence of magnesium, cells contain few or no flagella and are poorly motile or nonmotile. To dissect the mechanism by which this regulation occurs, we screened transposon insertion mutants for those that could migrate through soft agar medium lacking added magnesium. We identified mutants with insertions in two distinct genes, VF0989 and VFA0959, which we termed mifA and mifB, respectively, for magnesium-dependent induction of flagellation. Each gene encodes a predicted membrane-associated protein with diguanylate cyclase activity. Consistent with that activity, introduction into V. fischeri of medium-copy plasmids carrying these genes inhibited motility. Furthermore, multicopy expression of mifA induced other phenotypes known to be correlated with diguanylate cyclase activity, including cellulose biosynthesis and biofilm formation. To directly test their function, we introduced the wild-type genes on high-copy plasmids into Escherichia coli. We assayed for the production of cyclic di-GMP using two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography and found that strains carrying these plasmids produced a small but reproducible spot that migrated with an R(f) value consistent with cyclic di-GMP that was not produced by strains carrying the vector control. Disruptions of mifA or mifB increased flagellin levels, while multicopy expression decreased them. Semiquantitative reverse transcription-PCR experiments revealed no significant difference in the amount of flagellin transcripts produced in either the presence or absence of Mg(2+) by either vector control or mifA-overexpressing cells, indicating that the impact of magnesium and cyclic-di-GMP primarily acts following transcription. Finally, we present a model for the roles of magnesium and cyclic di-GMP in the control of motility of V. fischeri.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

O'Shea TM,Klein AH,Geszvain K,Wolfe AJ,Visick KL

doi

10.1128/JB.00728-06

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-12-01 00:00:00

pages

8196-205

issue

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

pii

JB.00728-06

journal_volume

188

pub_type

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Diguanylate cyclases control magnesium-dependent motility of Vibrio fischeri.