Goyard S, Bellalou J, Mireau H, Ullmann A
Unité de Biochimie des Régulations Cellulaires, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
J Bacteriol. 1994 Aug;176(16):5163-6. doi: 10.1128/jb.176.16.5163-5166.1994.
The bvg locus of Bordetella pertussis, required for coordinate regulation of virulence genes in response to environmental signals, encodes two proteins, BvgS and BvgA, that belong to the bacterial two-component signal transduction systems. We have isolated spontaneous mutations of the bvg locus in Escherichia coli and analyzed their effects on the expression of fhaB::lacZY transcriptional fusions. The mutations, localized in the linker and transmitter domain of BvgS, result in increased activation of fhaB and/or in insensitivity to a modulating agent, nicotinic acid.
百日咳博德特氏菌的bvg位点负责响应环境信号对毒力基因进行协同调控,它编码两种属于细菌双组分信号转导系统的蛋白质,即BvgS和BvgA。我们在大肠杆菌中分离出了bvg位点的自发突变,并分析了它们对fhaB::lacZY转录融合表达的影响。这些突变位于BvgS的连接区和传递结构域,导致fhaB的激活增加和/或对调节剂烟酸不敏感。