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Identification of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Putative Classical Nitroreductase Gene Whose Expression Is Coregulated with That of the acr Gene within Macrophages, in Standing versus Shaking Cultures, and under Low Oxygen Conditions

机译:在低氧条件下静置培养和摇动培养中,结核分枝杆菌推定的经典硝基还原酶基因的表达与巨噬细胞中acr基因的表达相互关联

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Tuberculosis remains a leading killer worldwide, and new approaches for its treatment and prevention are urgently needed. This effort will benefit greatly from a better understanding of gene regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, particularly with respect to this pathogen's response to its host environment. We examined the behavior of two promoters from the divergently transcribed M. tuberculosis genes acr/hspX/Rv2031c (α-crystallin homolog) and Rv2032/acg (acr-coregulated gene) by using a promoter-GFP fusion assay in Mycobacterium bovis BCG. We found that Rv2032 is a novel macrophage-induced gene whose expression is coregulated with that of acr. Relative levels of intracellular induction for both promoters were significantly affected by shallow standing versus shaking bacterial culture conditions prior to macrophage infection, and both promoters were strongly induced under low oxygen conditions. Deletion analyses showed that DNA sequences within a 43-bp region were required for expression of these promoters under all conditions. Multiple sequence alignment and database searches performed with PROBE indicated that Rv2032 is one of eight M. tuberculosis genes of previously unknown function that belong to an unusual superfamily of classical nitroreductases, which may have a role for bacteria within the host environment. These findings show that mycobacterial culture conditions can greatly influence the results and interpretation of subsequent gene regulation experiments. We propose that these differences might be exploited for dissection of the regulatory factors that affect mycobacterial gene expression within the host.
机译:结核病仍然是世界范围内的主要杀手,因此迫切需要新的治疗和预防方法。更好地了解结核分枝杆菌中的基因调控,尤其是就该病原体对其宿主环境的反应而言,这项工作将大大受益。我们检查了来自不同转录的 M的两个启动子的行为。结核基因 acr / hsp X / Rv2031c(α-晶状体蛋白同源物)和Rv2032 / acg acr BCG中使用启动子-GFP融合检测的方法。我们发现Rv2032是一种新型的巨噬细胞诱导基因,其表达与 acr 的表达紧密相关。在巨噬细胞感染之前,浅站立和摇动细菌培养条件对两种启动子的细胞内诱导的相对水平有显着影响,并且两种启动子在低氧条件下被强烈诱导。缺失分析表明在所有条件下表达这些启动子都需要43bp区域内的DNA序列。用PROBE进行的多个序列比对和数据库搜索表明Rv2032是八个 M之一。以前未知功能的结核基因属于经典的硝基还原酶的超家族,可能对宿主环境中的细菌起作用。这些发现表明分枝杆菌培养条件可以极大地影响结果和后续基因调控实验的解释。我们建议这些差异可用于解剖影响宿主内分枝杆菌基因表达的调节因子。

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