Regulation of hemolysin expression in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 1 by Ca2+.

Abstract:

:Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, the causative agent of swine pleuropneumonia, secretes a hemolytic activity which is thought to be a factor involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. The biosynthesis of hemolysin by serotype 1 strain 4074 was strongly dependent on the activity of free Ca2+ in the growth medium. At activities of free Ca2+ below 50 microM, very low hemolytic activities could be detected in the growth medium and in cell extracts. Maximal hemolytic activities of up to 400 hemolytic units per ml could be measured in growth medium containing free Ca2+ activities above 3 mM. Other bivalent cations did not stimulate the production of hemolysin. Neither the growth rate nor the secretion of hemolysin was affected by increasing Ca2+ concentrations in the medium. The hemolysin of serotype 1 did not require Ca2+ as a cofactor for the lysis of erythrocytes. Ca2+ induced the expression of a 105-kilodalton protein, which was secreted. This protein comigrated with purified hemolysin on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and exhibited hemolysin activity upon purification. Inhibition experiments with rifampin suggest that the hemolysin of A. pleuropneumoniae is regulated by Ca2+ at the transcriptional level. The threshold of hemolysin induction was around 700 microM free Ca2+, a concentration which is similar to that found in blood serum. The Ca2+-inducible hemolysin represents a novel type of positively regulated bacterial gene expression.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Frey J,Nicolet J

doi

10.1128/IAI.56.10.2570-2575.1988

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-10-01 00:00:00

pages

2570-5

issue

10

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

journal_volume

56

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