Inactivation of PadR, the Repressor of the Phenolic Acid Stress Response, by Molecular Interaction with Usp1, a Universal Stress Protein fromLactobacillus plantarum, inEscherichia coli
- 15 August 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 75 (16), 5273-5283
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00774-09
Abstract
The phenolic acid decarboxylase gene padA is involved in the phenolic acid stress response (PASR) in gram-positive bacteria. In Lactobacillus plantarum, the padR gene encodes the negative transcriptional regulator of padA and is cotranscribed with a downstream gene, usp1, which encodes a putative universal stress protein (USP), Usp1, of unknown function. The usp1 gene is overexpressed during the PASR. However, the role and the mechanism of action of the USPs are unknown in gram-positive bacteria. Therefore, to gain insights into the role of USPs in the PASR; (i) a usp1 deletion mutant was constructed; (ii) the two genes padR and usp1 were coexpressed with padA under its own promoter as a reporter gene in Escherichia coli; and (iii) molecular in vitro interactions between the PadR, Usp1, and the padA promoter were studied. Although the usp1 mutant strain retained phenolic acid-dependent PAD activity, it displayed a greater sensitivity to strong acidic conditions compared to that of the wild-type strain. PadR cannot be inactivated directly by phenolic acid in E. coli recombinant cultures but is inactivated by Usp1 when the two proteins are coexpressed in E. coli. The PadR inactivation observed in recombinant E. coli cells was supported by electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Although Usp1 seems not to be absolutely required for the PASR, its capacity to inactivate PadR indicates that it could serve as an important mediator in acid stress response mechanisms through its capacity to interact with transcriptional regulators.Keywords
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