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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 103, Issue 36, Pages 13503-13508Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606026103
Keywords
iraP; magnesium; Escherichia coli
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI049561, AI49561] Funding Source: Medline
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The sigma factor RpoS regulates the expression of many stress response genes and is required for virulence in several bacterial species. We now report that RpoS accumulates when Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is growing logarithmically in media with low Mg2+ concentrations. This process requires the two-component regulatory system PhoP/PhoQ, which is specifically activated in low Mg2+. We show that PhoP controls RpoS protein turnover by serving as a transcriptional activator of the iraP (yaiB) gene, which encodes a product that enhances RpoS stability by interacting with RssB, the protein that normally delivers RpoS to the ClpXP protease for degradation. Mutation of the phoP gene rendered Salmonella as sensitive to hydrogen peroxide as an rpoS mutant after growth in low Mg2+. In Escherichia coli, low Mg2+ leads to only modest RpoS stabilization, and iraP is not regulated by PhoP/PhoQ. These findings add the sigma factor RpoS to the regulatory proteins and two-component systems that are elevated in a PhoP/PhoQ-dependent fashion when Salmonella face low Mg2+ environments. Our data also exemplify the critical differences in regulatory circuits that exist between the closely related enteric bacteria Salmonella and E. coli.
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