Dual role of CsrA in regulating the hemolytic activity of Escherichia coli O157:H7

Post-transcriptional global carbon storage regulator A (CsrA) is a sequence-specific RNA-binding protein involved in the regulation of multiple bacterial processes. Hemolysin is an important virulence factor in the enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC). Here, we show that CsrA plays a dual role in the regulation of hemolysis in EHEC. CsrA significantly represses plasmid-borne enterohemolysin (EhxA)-mediated hemolysis and activates chromosome-borne hemolysin E (HlyE)-mediated hemolysis through different mechanisms. RNA structure prediction revealed a well-matched stem-loop structure with two potential CsrA binding sites located on the 5' untranslated region (UTR) of ehxB, which encodes a translocator required for EhxA secretion. CsrA inhibits EhxA secretion by directly binding to the RNA leader sequence of ehxB to repress its expression in two different ways: CsrA either binds to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence of ehxB to block ribosome access or to ehxB transcript to promote its mRNA decay. The predicted CsrA-binding site 1 of ehxB is essential for its regulation. There is a single potential CsrA-binding site at the 5'-end of the hlyE transcript, and its mutation completely abolishes CsrA-dependent activation. CsrA can also stabilize hlyE mRNA by directly binding to its 5' UTR. Overall, our results indicate that CsrA acts as a hemolysis modulator to regulate pathogenicity under certain conditions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Virulence - 13(2022), 1 vom: 07. Dez., Seite 859-874

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sun, Zhibin [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wenting [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Yu-Feng [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

7440-44-0
Carbon
CsrA/RsmA
CsrA protein, E coli
Escherichia coli O157:H7
Escherichia coli Proteins
Hemolysin Proteins
Hemolysis
Journal Article
Protein–RNA interaction
RNA, Messenger
RNA-Binding Proteins
Repressor Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Virulence

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Date Completed 26.05.2022

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/21505594.2022.2073023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM341317411