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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 189, 期 5, 页码 1827-1835出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01766-06
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI051490-04, AI051490, R01 AI051490] Funding Source: Medline
Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera, secretes several accessory toxins, including RTX toxin, which causes the cross-linking of the actin cytoskeleton. RTX toxin is exported to the extracellular milieu by an atypical type I secretion system (T1SS), and we previously noted that RTX-associated activity is detectable only in supernatant fluids from log phase cultures. Here, we investigate the mechanisms for regulating RTX toxin activity in supernatant fluids. We find that exported proteases are capable of destroying RTX activity and may therefore play a role in the growth phase regulation of toxin activity. We determined that the absence of RTX toxin in stationary-phase culture supernatant fluids is also due to a lack of toxin secretion and not attributable to solely proteolytic degradation. We ascertained that the T1SS apparatus is regulated at the transcriptional level by growth phase control that is independent of quorum sensing, unlike other virulence factors of V. cholerae. Additionally, in stationary-phase cultures, all RTX toxin activity is associated with bacterial membranes or outer membrane vesicles.
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