Regulation ofSalmonella entericaPathogenicity Island 1 by DNA Adenine Methylation
- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Genetics
- Vol. 184 (3), 637-649
- https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.109.108985
Abstract
DNA adenine methylase (Dam−) mutants of Salmonella enterica are attenuated in the mouse model and present multiple virulence-related defects. Impaired interaction of Salmonella Dam− mutants with the intestinal epithelium has been tentatively correlated with reduced secretion of pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) effectors. In this study, we show that S. enterica Dam− mutants contain lowered levels of the SPI-1 transcriptional regulators HilA, HilC, HilD, and InvF. Epistasis analysis indicates that Dam-dependent regulation of SPI-1 requires HilD, while HilA, HilC, and InvF are dispensable. A transcriptional hilD∷lac fusion is expressed at similar levels in Dam+ and Dam− hosts. However, lower levels of hilD mRNA are found in a Dam− background, thus providing unsuspected evidence that Dam methylation might exert post-transcriptional regulation of hilD expression. This hypothesis is supported by the following lines of evidence: (i) lowered levels of hilD mRNA are found in Salmonella Dam− mutants when hilD is transcribed from a heterologous promoter; (ii) increased hilD mRNA turnover is observed in Dam− mutants; (iii) lack of the Hfq RNA chaperone enhances hilD mRNA instability in Dam− mutants; and (iv) lack of the RNA degradosome components polynucleotide phosphorylase and ribonuclease E suppresses hilD mRNA instability in a Dam− background. Our report of Dam-dependent control of hilD mRNA stability suggests that DNA adenine methylation plays hitherto unknown roles in post-transcriptional control of gene expression.Keywords
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