Bacterial sensing of and resistance to gold salts
- 8 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 63 (5), 1307-1318
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05590.x
Abstract
The MerR family is a group of bacterial transcriptional regulators that respond to different environmental stimuli, such as heavy metals, oxidative stress or antibiotics. Here we characterize a new member of this family that is highly selective for Au ions. We show that this Salmonella regulator, named GolS, directly controls the expression of at least two transcriptional units specifically required for Au resistance. By chromosomal mutagenesis, we demonstrated that Au-selectivity is accomplished by a metal-binding motif in GolS. Among the monovalent metal-ion sensing MerR regulators GolS clusters in a branch distant from enterobacterial CueR orthologues. We propose that GolS and its homologues evolved to cope with toxic concentration of Au ion, allowing microorganisms to withstand contaminated environments.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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