Abstract:
:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes a type III secretion system (T3SS) to evade phagocytosis and damage eukaryotic cells. Transcription of the T3SS regulon is controlled by ExsA, a member of the AraC/XylS family of transcriptional regulators. These family members generally consist of an approximately 100-amino acid carboxy-terminal domain (CTD) with two helix-turn-helix DNA binding motifs and an approximately 200-amino acid amino-terminal domain (NTD) with known functions including oligomerization and ligand binding. In the present study, we show that the CTD of ExsA binds to ExsA-dependent promoters in vitro and activates transcription from ExsA-dependent promoters both in vitro and in vivo. Despite possessing these activities, the CTD lacks the cooperative binding properties observed for full-length ExsA at the P(exsC) promoter. In addition, the CTD is unaffected by the negative regulatory activity of ExsD, an inhibitor of ExsA activity. Binding studies confirm that ExsD interacts directly with the NTD of ExsA. Our data are consistent with a model in which a single ExsA molecule first binds to a high-affinity site on the P(exsC) promoter. Protein-protein interactions mediated by the NTD then recruit an additional ExsA molecule to a second site on the promoter to form a complex capable of stimulating wild-type levels of transcription. These findings provide important insight into the mechanisms of transcriptional activation by ExsA and inhibition of ExsA activity by ExsD.
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J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Brutinel ED,Vakulskas CA,Yahr TLdoi
10.1128/JB.00002-09subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-06-01 00:00:00pages
3811-21issue
12eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530pii
JB.00002-09journal_volume
191pub_type
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