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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 183, 期 2, 页码 773-778出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.2.773-778.2001
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI-15490, AI-40541] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI040541] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The ohr (organic hydroperoxide resistance) gene product of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was essential for optimal resistance to organic hydroperoxides (OHPs) but not to hydrogen peroxide or paraquat. ri Delta ohr mutant was hypersusceptible to OHPs in disk inhibition assays and showed enhanced killing by OHPs in liquid culture. The ohr gene product was demonstrated to contribute to the decomposition of OHPs, Transcription of ohr was induced up to 15-fold upon exposure to OHPs, and this induction was independent of OxyR. Somewhat enhanced ohr-lacZ activity was detected in mutant strains affected in ohr, ahpC, and oxyR, and this phenotype correlated with hypersusceptibility to OHPs, suggesting overlapping or compensatory functions of the ohr and ahpC gene products. A single transcriptional start site for ohr was determined, and ohr transcripts were abundant in cells treated with a sublethal dose of OHPs but not in cells treated with paraquat. An 84-bp portion upstream of the ohr mRNA start site was sufficient for ohr induction by OHPs, Thus, the ohr gene appears to encode an antioxidant enzyme that is not part of the OxyR regulon yet is specifically induced by OHPs.
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