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A transcriptional co-repressor regulatory circuit controlling the heat-shock response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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Title A transcriptional co-repressor regulatory circuit controlling the heat-shock response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
 
Creator Singh, Ranjeet
Anil Kumar, Vijjamarri
Das, Arijit Kumar
Bansal, Roohi
Sarkar, Dibyendu
 
Description The co-ordinated regulation of heat shock proteins is critically important for the stress response of M. tuberculosis, failure of which results in enhanced immune recognition of the tubercle bacilli with reduced survival during chronic infections. In this study, we show that PhoP regulates the transcription of α-crystallin 2 (acr2), expression of which increases more than any other gene of M. tuberculosis during heat-shock or following macrophage infection. We also show that regulation of acr2 by PhoP is attributable to direct regulator-promoter interactions at specific sites proximal to a sequence motif comprising the target site of another virulence factor, HspR. While both these regulators, on their own, are capable of influencing acr2 expression, remarkably our results show that the two virulence regulators PhoP and HspR interact with each other to influence their in vivo recruitment at the acr2 regulatory region, and in turn, contribute to stress-specific regulation of acr2 expression. We propose a model to suggest how protein-protein interactions between PhoP and HspR influence the regulation of α-crystallin 2, an essential pathogenic determinant of M. tuberculosis.
 
Publisher Oxford, OX ; Boston, MA : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1987-
 
Date 2014-10
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Relation http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mmi.12778/abstract;jsessionid=F560D16D5378259FB1267DAE6B18B124.f04t02
http://crdd.osdd.net/open/1542/
 
Identifier Singh, Ranjeet and Anil Kumar, Vijjamarri and Das, Arijit Kumar and Bansal, Roohi and Sarkar, Dibyendu (2014) A transcriptional co-repressor regulatory circuit controlling the heat-shock response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecular microbiology, 94 (2). pp. 450-65. ISSN 1365-2958