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Type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are multicomponent machineries that play an essential role in pathogenicity of many facultative intracellular bacteria. The virB operon of Brucella abortus codes for a T4SS essential for virulence and intracellular multiplication. Here, virB expression analyses carried out using lacZ transcriptional fusions showed that virB promoter (PvirB) is temporally activated within J774 cells. Primer extension experiments revealed that virB transcription starts at 27 bp upstream of the first gene of the virB operon. Structural analyses showed that PvirB and regulatory sequences involved in intracellular regulation span 430 bp upstream of the transcription start site. A protein able to bind PvirB was isolated and identified. This protein, homologue to integration host factor (IHF), specifically interacts with PvirB and induces a DNA bending with an angle of 50.36°. DNAse I footprinting experiments showed that IHF protects a 51 bp region that contains two overlapped IHF binding consensus motifs. VirB expression experiments carried out with PvirB-lacZ fusions showed that in B. abortus IHF participates in the regulation of PvirB activity during the intracellular and vegetative growth in different media. A mutant strain with a 20 bp IHF binding site replacement failed to turn on the virB operon during the initial stages of macrophage infection and displayed severe intracellular multiplication defects. These data indicate that IHF plays a key role during intracellular virB operon expression being required for the biogenesis of the endoplasmic reticulum-derived replicative vacuole.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Integration host factor is involved in transcriptional regulation of the Brucella abortus virB operon
Autor:Sieira, R.; Comerci, D.J.; Pietrasanta, L.I.; Ugalde, R.A.
Filiación:Inst. de Invest. Biotecnologicas, Univ. Nacional de General San Martin, CONICET, San Martin 1650, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, División Agropecuaria, Centro Atómico Ezeiza 1804, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centro de Microscopias Avanzadas, Fac. de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón I 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:beta galactosidase; curved DNA; deoxyribonuclease I; integration host factor; VirB protein; animal cell; article; bacterial strain; bacterial virulence; bacterium mutant; binding site; Brucella abortus; cell vacuole; consensus sequence; endoplasmic reticulum; gene overexpression; gene replication; genetic transcription; macrophage; mouse; nonhuman; operon; pathogenicity; priority journal; promoter region; protein binding; protein protein interaction; regulatory sequence; transcription initiation site; transcription regulation; Animals; Bacterial Proteins; Base Sequence; Binding Sites; Brucella abortus; Cell Line; Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; Genes, Reporter; Integration Host Factors; Macrophages; Mice; Operon; Promoter Regions (Genetics); Recombinant Fusion Proteins; Transcription Factors; Transcription, Genetic; Animalia; Bacteria (microorganisms); Brucella; Brucella melitensis biovar Abortus; Negibacteria
Año:2004
Volumen:54
Número:3
Página de inicio:808
Página de fin:822
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04316.x
Título revista:Molecular Microbiology
Título revista abreviado:Mol. Microbiol.
ISSN:0950382X
CODEN:MOMIE
CAS:deoxyribonuclease I, 9003-98-9; integration host factor, 97930-86-4; Bacterial Proteins; Integration Host Factors; Recombinant Fusion Proteins; Transcription Factors
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Sieira, R., Comerci, D.J., Pietrasanta, L.I. & Ugalde, R.A. (2004) . Integration host factor is involved in transcriptional regulation of the Brucella abortus virB operon. Molecular Microbiology, 54(3), 808-822.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04316.x
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Sieira, R., Comerci, D.J., Pietrasanta, L.I., Ugalde, R.A. "Integration host factor is involved in transcriptional regulation of the Brucella abortus virB operon" . Molecular Microbiology 54, no. 3 (2004) : 808-822.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04316.x
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Sieira, R., Comerci, D.J., Pietrasanta, L.I., Ugalde, R.A. "Integration host factor is involved in transcriptional regulation of the Brucella abortus virB operon" . Molecular Microbiology, vol. 54, no. 3, 2004, pp. 808-822.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04316.x
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Sieira, R., Comerci, D.J., Pietrasanta, L.I., Ugalde, R.A. Integration host factor is involved in transcriptional regulation of the Brucella abortus virB operon. Mol. Microbiol. 2004;54(3):808-822.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04316.x