Hierarchy in the expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement genes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Abstract:

:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) elicit changes in host cell morphology and cause actin rearrangement, a phenotype that has commonly been referred to as attaching/effacing (AE) lesions. The ability of EPEC to induce AE lesions is dependent upon a type III protein secretion/translocation system that is encoded by genes clustered in a 35.6 kb DNA segment, named the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE). We used transcriptional fusions between the green fluorescent protein (gfp) reporter gene and LEE genes rorf2, orf3, orf5, escJ, escV and eae, together with immunoblot analysis with antibodies against Tir, intimin, EspB and EspF, to analyse the genetic regulation of the LEE. The expression of all these LEE genes was strictly dependent upon the presence of a functional integration host factor (IHF). IHF binds specifically upstream from the ler (orf1) promoter and appears to activate expression of ler, orf3, orf5 and rorf2 directly. The ler-encoded Ler protein was involved in activating the expression of escJ, escV, tir, eae, espB and espF. Expression of both IHF and Ler was needed to elicit actin rearrangement associated with AE lesions. In conclusion, IHF directly activates the expression of the ler and rorf2 transcriptional units, and Ler in turn mediates the expression of the other LEE genes.

journal_name

Mol Microbiol

journal_title

Molecular microbiology

authors

Friedberg D,Umanski T,Fang Y,Rosenshine I

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01655.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-12-01 00:00:00

pages

941-52

issue

5

eissn

0950-382X

issn

1365-2958

pii

mmi1655

journal_volume

34

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