A Xanthomonas Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase Subunit C (ahpC) Mutant Showed an Altered Peroxide Stress Response and Complex Regulation of the Compensatory Response of Peroxide Detoxification Enzymes

AUTOR(ES)

Mongkolsuk, Skorn

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit C (AhpC) is the catalytic subunit responsible for alkyl peroxide metabolism. A Xanthomonas ahpC mutant was constructed. The mutant had increased sensitivity to organic peroxide killing, but was unexpectedly hyperresistant to H2O2 killing. Analysis of peroxide detoxification enzymes in this mutant revealed differential alteration in catalase activities in that its bifunctional catalase-peroxidase enzyme and major monofunctional catalase (Kat1) increased severalfold, while levels of its third growth-phase-regulated catalase (KatE) did not change. The increase in catalase activities was a compensatory response to lack of AhpC, and the phenotype was complemented by expression of a functional ahpC gene. Regulation of the catalase compensatory response was complex. The Kat1 compensatory response increase in activity was mediated by OxyR, since it was abolished in an oxyR mutant. In contrast, the compensatory response increase in activity for the bifunctional catalase-peroxidase enzyme was mediated by an unknown regulator, independent of OxyR. Moreover, the mutation in ahpC appeared to convert OxyR from a reduced form to an oxidized form that activated genes in the OxyR regulon in uninduced cells. This complex regulation of the peroxide stress response in Xanthomonas differed from that in other bacteria.

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