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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00348
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Listeria monocytogenes; PrfA; sigB; single cell; stochastic gene expression; heat stress; salt stress
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- Swiss National Science Foundation [P2BEP3_148881]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [P2BEP3_148881] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
During host infection, the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes must sense and respond to rapidly changing environmental conditions. Two transcriptional regulators, the alternative sigma factor B (sigma(B)) and the Positive Regulatory Factor A (PrfA), are key contributors to the transcriptomic responses that enable bacterial survival in the host gastrointestinal tract and invasion of host duodenal cells. Increases in temperature and osmolarity induce activity of these proteins; such conditions may be encountered in food matrices as well as within the host gastrointestinal tract. Differences in PrfA and sigma(B) activity between individual cells might affect the fate of a cell during host invasion, therefore, we hypothesized that PrfA and ?B activities differ among individual cells under heat and salt stress. We used fluorescent reporter fusions to determine the relative proportions of cells with active sigma(B) or PrfA following exposure to 45 degrees C heat or 4% NaCl. Activities of both PrfA and sigma(B) were induced stochastically, with fluorescence levels ranging from below detection to high among individual cells. The proportion of cells with active PrfA was significantly higher than the proportion with active sigma(B) under all tested conditions; under some conditions, nearly all cells had active PrfA. Our findings further support the growing body of evidence illustrating the stochastic nature of bacterial gene expression under conditions that are relevant for host invasion via food-borne, oral infection.
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