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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 187, 期 9, 页码 3139-3150出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.9.3139-3150.2005
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01AI42783, R01AI30138, R01 AI046445, R01AI46445, R01 AI030138, R01 AI042783] Funding Source: Medline
The agr system is a global regulator of accessory functions in staphylococci, including genes encoding exoproteins involved in virulence. The agr locus contains a two-component signal transduction module that is activated by an autoinducing peptide (AIP) encoded within the agr locus and is conserved throughout the genus. The AIP has an unusual partially cyclic structure that is essential for function and that, in all but one case, involves an internal thiolactone bond between a conserved cysteine and the C-terminal carboxyl group. The exceptional case is a strain of Staphylococcus intermedius that has a serine in place of the conserved cysteine. We demonstrate here that the S. intermedius AIP is processed by the S. intermedius AgrB protein to generate a cyclic lactone, that it is an autoinducer as well as a cross-inhibitor, and that all of five other S. intermedius strains examined also produce serine-containing AIPs.
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