Transcription of Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin binding protein genes is negatively regulated by agr and an agr-independent mechanism - PubMed (original) (raw)
Transcription of Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin binding protein genes is negatively regulated by agr and an agr-independent mechanism
P Saravia-Otten et al. J Bacteriol. 1997 Sep.
Abstract
The production of cell surface proteins in Staphylococcus aureus is generally down-regulated in the postexponential growth phase by the global regulator agr. The effector of this regulation is the RNAIII molecule, which is encoded within the agr locus. RNAIII seems to regulate most target genes at the level of transcription, but it also has an effect on the translation of some genes. To study the role of agr on the expression of fibronectin binding proteins (FnBPs), we investigated the transcription and translation of fnb genes in agr mutant strain WA250 and its parent strain, 8325-4. The results show that fnb genes are negatively regulated by agr and also by an agr-independent mechanism that restricts fnb mRNA synthesis to the early exponential phase of growth. Transcription and Western blot analysis of cell-associated FnBPs demonstrated that synthesis of both FnBPA and FnBPB in the wild-type and agr mutant strains took place preferentially during the first hour of growth and rapidly decreased after the second hour. We also confirmed previous results showing that the agr mutant strain has an increased capacity to bind fibronectin compared to its parent agr+ strain. However, while the concentrations of fnb mRNAs and proteins differed by a factor of 16 between the strains, the difference in fibronectin binding was only twofold, indicating that the binding of fibronectin to the bacteria is not proportional to the amount of FnBPs on their surface.
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