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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
卷 159, 期 -, 页码 792-802出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.064865-0
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- National Institutes of Health [AI-063121-02, GM066130]
- Undergraduate Research, Innovation, Scholarship & Creativity Fund
- OSU Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Program
ToxT is the central regulatory protein involved in activation of the main virulence genes in Vibrio cholerae. We have identified transposon insertions in central metabolism genes, whose disruption increases toxT transcription. These disrupted genes encode the primary respiration-linked sodium pump (NADH : ubiquinone oxidoreductase or NOR) and certain tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes. Observations made following stimulation of respiration in the nqr mutant or chemical inhibition of NOR activity in the TCA cycle mutants led to the hypothesis that NOR affects toxT transcription via the TCA cycle. That toxT transcription increased when the growth medium was supplemented with citrate, but decreased with oxaloacetate, focused our attention on the TCA cycle substrate acetyl-CoA and its non-TCA cycle metabolism. Indeed, both the nqr and the TCA cycle mutants increased acetate excretion. A similar correlation between acetate excretion and toxT transcription was observed in a to/C mutant and upon amino acid (NRES) supplementation. As acetate and its tendency to decrease pH exerted no strong effect on toxT transcription, and because disruption of the major acetate excretion pathway increased toxT transcription, we propose that toxT transcription is regulated by either acetyl-CoA or some close derivative.
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