Unique Roles of DosT and DosS in DosR Regulon Induction and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Dormancy
- 1 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 77 (8), 3258-3263
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.01449-08
Abstract
In Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the sensor kinases DosT and DosS activate the transcriptional regulator DosR, resulting in the induction of the DosR regulon, which is important for anaerobic survival and perhaps latent infection. The individual and collective roles of these sensors have been postulated biochemically, but their roles in vivo have remained unclear. This work demonstrates distinct and additive roles for each sensor during anaerobic dormancy. Both sensors are necessary for wild-type levels of DosR regulon induction, and concomitantly, full induction of the regulon is required for wild-type anaerobic survival. In the anaerobic model, DosT plays an early role, responding to hypoxia. DosT then induces the regulon and with it DosS, which sustains and further induces the regulon. DosT then loses its functionality as oxygen becomes limited, and DosS alone maintains induction of the genes from that point forward. Thus, M. tuberculosis has evolved a system whereby it responds to hypoxic conditions in a stepwise fashion as it enters an anaerobic state.Keywords
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