mgr, a Novel Global Regulator in Staphylococcus aureus
AUTOR(ES)
Luong, Thanh T.
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The virulence determinants of Staphylococcus aureus are coordinately controlled by several unlinked chromosomal loci. Here, we report the identification of CYL5614, derived from strain Becker, with a mutation that affects the expression of type 8 capsular polysaccharide (CP8), nuclease, alpha-toxin, coagulase, protease, and protein A. This novel locus, named mgr, was linked by transposon Tn917 and mapped by three-factorial transduction crosses. The region containing the mgr locus was cloned and sequenced. Deletion mutagenesis and genetic complementation showed that the locus consisted of one gene, mgrA. Interestingly, mgrA-null mutants exhibited a phenotype opposite to that of CYL5614. This was due to a T-to-C mutation upstream of mgrA that resulted in a four- to eightfold increase in mgrA transcription in strain CYL5614. Thus, these results indicate that mgrA is an activator of CP8 and nuclease but a repressor of alpha-toxin, coagulase, protease, and protein A. In addition, sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses showed that the mgr locus profoundly affected extracellular protein production, suggesting that the locus may regulate many other genes as well. The translated MgrA protein has a region of significant homology, which includes the helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif, with the Escherichia coli MarR family of transcriptional regulators. Northern slot blot analyses suggested that mgr affected CP8, alpha-toxin, nuclease, and protein A at the transcriptional level.
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