Glutamate-dependent arginine biosynthesis requires the inactivation of spoVG, sarA, and ahrC in Staphylococcus aureus

Tn, which is defective in synthesizing arginine from proline, were selected on CDM-R agar. Genome sequencing revealed that these mutants had compensatory mutations within both spoVG, encoding an ortholog of the Bacillus subtilis stage V sporulation protein, and sarA, encoding the staphylococcal accessory regulator. Transcriptional studies document that argD expression is significantly increased when JE2 spoVG sarA was grown in CDM-R. Lastly, we found that a mutation in ahrC was required to induce argD expression in JE2 spoVG sarA when grown in an arginine-replete medium (CDM), suggesting that AhrC also functions to repress argDCJB in an arginine-dependent manner. In conclusion, these data indicate that the argDCJB operon is functional when transcribed in vitro and that SNPs within potential putative regulatory proteins are required to alleviate the repression.IMPORTANCEAlthough Staphylococcus aureus has the capability to synthesize all 20 amino acids, it is phenotypically auxotrophic for several amino acids including arginine. This work identifies putative regulatory proteins, including SpoVG, SarA, and AhrC, that function to inhibit the arginine biosynthetic pathways using glutamate as a substrate. Understanding the ultimate mechanisms of why S. aureus is selected to repress arginine biosynthetic pathways even in the absence of arginine will add to the growing body of work assessing the interactions between metabolism and S. aureus pathogenesis.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:206

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Journal of bacteriology - 206(2024), 2 vom: 22. Feb., Seite e0033723

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Reslane, Itidal [VerfasserIn]
Handke, Luke D [VerfasserIn]
Watson, Gabrielle F [VerfasserIn]
Shinde, Dhananjay [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Jong-Sam [VerfasserIn]
Endres, Jennifer L [VerfasserIn]
Razvi, Fareha [VerfasserIn]
Gilbert, Emily A [VerfasserIn]
Bayles, Kenneth W [VerfasserIn]
Thomas, Vinai C [VerfasserIn]
Lehman, McKenzie K [VerfasserIn]
Fey, Paul D [VerfasserIn]

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Amino Acids
Arginine
Arginine biosynthesis
Bacterial Proteins
Glutamic Acid
Journal Article
Metabolism
Proline
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Staphylococcus aureus
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Date Completed 23.02.2024

Date Revised 08.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1128/jb.00337-23

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NLM36789159X