期刊
FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.952948
关键词
Regulatory RNA; metal ions; metal homeostasis; nutritional immunity; oxidative stress
资金
- Thomas Jefferson Fund, a program of FACE Foundation
- National Institutes of Health [R01AI155611, R21AI149115]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-20-CE12-0021]
- Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Vie et de la Sante [ED414]
- IdEx Unistra [ANR-10-IDEX-0002]
- SFRI-STRAT'US project [ANR 20-SFRI-0012]
- EUR IMCBio [ANR-17-EURE-0023]
- Labex NetRNA [ANR-10-LABX-0036]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-20-CE12-0021] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
This article discusses the regulation of metal uptake and homeostasis in bacteria, as well as the role of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) in this process. The article highlights the importance and toxicity of metals in bacterial biological processes, and describes how the immune system leverages these characteristics to limit bacterial proliferation and combat invaders. The article also emphasizes the importance of sRNAs as post-transcriptional regulators, which play a key role in regulating bacterial adaptation to metals and stress responses.
Metal such as iron, zinc, manganese, and nickel are essential elements for bacteria. These nutrients are required in crucial structural and catalytic roles in biological processes, including precursor biosynthesis, DNA replication, transcription, respiration, and oxidative stress responses. While essential, in excess these nutrients can also be toxic. The immune system leverages both of these facets, to limit bacterial proliferation and combat invaders. Metal binding immune proteins reduce the bioavailability of metals at the infection sites starving intruders, while immune cells intoxicate pathogens by providing metals in excess leading to enzyme mismetallation and/or reactive oxygen species generation. In this dynamic metal environment, maintaining metal homeostasis is a critical process that must be precisely coordinated. To achieve this, bacteria utilize diverse metal uptake and efflux systems controlled by metalloregulatory proteins. Recently, small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) have been revealed to be critical post-transcriptional regulators, working in conjunction with transcription factors to promote rapid adaptation and to fine-tune bacterial adaptation to metal abundance. In this mini review, we discuss the expanding role for sRNAs in iron homeostasis, but also in orchestrating adaptation to the availability of other metals like manganese and nickel. Furthermore, we describe the sRNA-mediated interdependency between metal homeostasis and oxidative stress responses, and how regulatory networks controlled by sRNAs contribute to survival and virulence.
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