Chakrabarti S K, Misra T K
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7344, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2000 Oct;182(20):5893-7. doi: 10.1128/JB.182.20.5893-5897.2000.
Mutation and genetic complementation studies suggested that two chromosomal loci, agr and sar, are involved in the upregulation of several exotoxin genes and the downregulation of a number of surface protein genes in a growth phase-dependent manner in Staphylococcus aureus. We purified recombinant T7-tagged SarA from Escherichia coli and determined its effect on transcription from several S. aureus promoters by using purified RNA polymerase reconstituted with either sigma(A) or sigma(B) from S. aureus. Of the seven sigma(A)-dependent promoters that we tested, SarA repressed transcription from agrP2, agrP3, cna, sarP1, and sea promoters and did not affect sec and znt promoters. Furthermore, SarA had no effect on transcription from the sigma(B)-dependent sarP3 promoter. In vitro experimental data presented in this report suggest that SarA expression is autoregulated.
突变和基因互补研究表明,在金黄色葡萄球菌中,两个染色体位点agr和sar以生长阶段依赖性方式参与多个外毒素基因的上调和许多表面蛋白基因的下调。我们从大肠杆菌中纯化了重组T7标签的SarA,并通过使用用来自金黄色葡萄球菌的sigma(A)或sigma(B)重组的纯化RNA聚合酶,确定了其对几个金黄色葡萄球菌启动子转录的影响。在我们测试的七个依赖sigma(A)的启动子中,SarA抑制了agrP2、agrP3、cna、sarP1和sea启动子的转录,而不影响sec和znt启动子。此外,SarA对依赖sigma(B)的sarP3启动子的转录没有影响。本报告中提供的体外实验数据表明,SarA的表达是自动调节的。