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SCIENCE
卷 321, 期 5893, 页码 1203-1206出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1160619
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- EMBO Long Term Fellowship
- Packard Foundation and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
It is thought that bacteria excrete redox- active pigments as antibiotics to inhibit competitors. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the endogenous antibiotic pyocyanin activates SoxR, a transcription factor conserved in Proteo- and Actinobacteria. In Escherichia coli, SoxR regulates the superoxide stress response. Bioinformatic analysis coupled with gene expression studies in P. aeruginosa and Streptomyces coelicolor revealed that the majority of SoxR regulons in bacteria lack the genes required for stress responses, despite the fact that many of these organisms still produce redox- active small molecules, which indicates that redox- active pigments play a role independent of oxidative stress. These compounds had profound effects on the structural organization of colony biofilms in both P. aeruginosa and S. coelicolor, which shows that secondary metabolites play important conserved roles in gene expression and development.
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