Overexpression of phzM contributes to much more production of pyocyanin converted from phenazine-1-carboxylic acid in the absence of RpoS in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a key virulence factor that often causes heavy damages to airway and lung in patients. Conversion of phenazine-1-carboxylic acid to pyocyanin involves an extrametabolic pathway that contains two enzymes encoded, respectively, by phzM and phzS. In this study, with construction of the rpoS-deficient mutant, we first found that although phenazine production increased, pyocyanin produced in the mutant YTΔrpoS was fourfold much higher than that in the wild-type strain YT. To investigate this issue, we constructed phzM-lacZ fusion on a vector and on the chromosome. By quantifying β-galactosidase activities, we confirmed that expression of the phzM was up-regulated when the rpoS gene was inactivated. However, no changes occurred in the expression of phzS and phzH when the rpoS was knocked out. Taken together, overproduction of the SAM-dependent methyltransferase (PhzM) might contribute to the increased pyocyanin in the absence of RpoS in P. aeruginosa.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:202

Enthalten in:

Archives of microbiology - 202(2020), 6 vom: 13. Aug., Seite 1507-1515

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Kewen [VerfasserIn]
Kai, Le [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Kailu [VerfasserIn]
Hao, Mengyue [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Yanjie [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Xinyu [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Zhifen [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Lijuan [VerfasserIn]
Chi, Xiaoyan [VerfasserIn]
Ge, Yihe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1-phenazinecarboxylic acid
2538-68-3
9OQM399341
Bacterial Proteins
EC 1.-
EC 1.14.13.-
EC 2.1.1.-
Journal Article
Methyltransferases
Mixed Function Oxygenases
Phenazine-1-carboxylic acid
Phenazines
PhzM
PhzM protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
PhzS protein, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pyocyanin
Pyocyanine
RpoS
Sigma Factor
Sigma factor KatF protein, Bacteria
Virulence Factors

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Date Completed 24.08.2020

Date Revised 21.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00203-020-01837-8

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM308085086