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INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 550-556Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.1.550-556.2003
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI045728, R01AI038399, U19AI043924, U19AI038515] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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It has been reported that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possesses a very high level of catalase activity, but the regulation of catalase expression has not been investigated extensively. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, it has been demonstrated that OxyR is a positive regulator of hydrogen peroxide-inducible genes, including the gene encoding catalase. The oxyR gene from N. gonorrhoeae was cloned and used to complement an E. coli oxyR mutant, confirming its identity and function. The gene was inactivated by inserting a kanamycin resistance cassette and used to make a knockout allele on the chromosome of N. gonorrhoeae strain 1291. In contrast to E. coli, the N. gonorrhoeae oxyR::kan mutant expressed ninefold-more catalase activity and was more resistant to hydrogen peroxide killing than the wild type. These data are consistent with OxyR in N. gonorrhoeae acting as a repressor of catalase expression.
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