<i>Bordetella</i>AlcS Transporter Functions in Alcaligin Siderophore Export and Is Central to Inducer Sensing in Positive Regulation of Alcaligin System Gene Expression

• Timothy J. Brickman

  Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0312

• Sandra K. Armstrong

  Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0312

抄録

Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella bronchiseptica , which are respiratory mucosal pathogens of mammals, produce and utilize the siderophore alcaligin to acquire iron in response to iron starvation. A predicted permease of the major facilitator superfamily class of membrane efflux pumps, AlcS (synonyms, OrfX and Bcr), was reported to be encoded within the alcaligin gene cluster. In this study, alcS null mutants were found to be defective in growth under iron starvation conditions, in iron source utilization, and in alcaligin export. trans complementation using cloned alcS genes of B. pertussis or B. bronchiseptica restored the wild-type phenotype to the alcS mutants. Although the levels of extracellular alcaligin measured in alcS strain culture fluids were severely reduced compared with the wild-type levels, alcS mutants had elevated levels of cell-associated alcaligin, implicating AlcS in alcaligin export. Interestingly, a Δ alcA mutation that eliminated alcaligin production suppressed the growth defects of alcS mutants. This suppression and the alcaligin production defect were reversed by trans complementation of the Δ alcA mutation in the double-mutant strain, confirming that the growth-defective phenotype of alcS mutants is associated with alcaligin production. In an alcA ::mini-Tn 5 lacZ1 operon fusion strain background, an alcS null mutation resulted in enhanced AlcR-dependent transcriptional responsiveness to alcaligin inducer; conversely, AlcS overproduction blunted the transcriptional response to alcaligin. These transcription studies indicate that the alcaligin exporter activity of AlcS is required to maintain appropriate intracellular alcaligin levels for normal inducer sensing and responsiveness necessary for positive regulation of alcaligin system gene expression.

収録刊行物

• Journal of Bacteriology

  Journal of Bacteriology 187 (11), 3650-3661, 2005-06

  American Society for Microbiology

キーワード

• Molecular Biology
• Microbiology

詳細情報

• CRID: 1362544421356872960
• NII論文ID: 30021054910
• DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.11.3650-3661.2005
• ISSN: 10985530
• ISSN: 00219193
• Web Site: https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/JB.187.11.3650-3661.2005
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