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Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous nosocomial opportunistic pathogen that harbors many virulence determinants. Part of P. aeruginosa success colonizing a variety of habitats resides in its metabolic robustness and plasticity, which are the basis of its capability of adaptation to different nutri...
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author | Gil-Gil, Teresa Cuesta, Trinidad Hernando-Amado, Sara Reales-Calderón, Jose Antonio Corona, Fernando Linares, Juan F. Martínez, José L. |
author_facet | Gil-Gil, Teresa Cuesta, Trinidad Hernando-Amado, Sara Reales-Calderón, Jose Antonio Corona, Fernando Linares, Juan F. Martínez, José L. |
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description | Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous nosocomial opportunistic pathogen that harbors many virulence determinants. Part of P. aeruginosa success colonizing a variety of habitats resides in its metabolic robustness and plasticity, which are the basis of its capability of adaptation to different nutrient sources and ecological conditions, including the infected host. Given this situation, it is conceivable that P. aeruginosa virulence might be, at least in part, under metabolic control, in such a way that virulence determinants are produced just when needed. Indeed, it has been shown that the catabolite repression control protein Crc, which together with the RNA chaperon Hfq regulates the P. aeruginosa utilization of carbon sources at the post-transcriptional level, also regulates, directly or indirectly, virulence-related processes in P. aeruginosa. Among them, Crc regulates P. aeruginosa cytotoxicity, likely by modulating the activity of the Type III Secretion System (T3SS), which directly injects toxins into eukaryotic host cells. The present work shows that the lack of Crc produces a Type III Secretion-defective phenotype in P. aeruginosa. The observed impairment is a consequence of a reduced expression of the genes encoding the T3SS, together with an impaired secretion of the proteins involved. Our results support that the impaired T3SS activity of the crc defective mutant is, at least partly, a consequence of a defective protein export, probably due to a reduced proton motive force. This work provides new information about the complex regulation of the expression and the activity of the T3SS in P. aeruginosa. Our results highlight the need of a robust bacterial metabolism, which is defective in the ∆crc mutant, to elicit complex and energetically costly virulence strategies, as that provided by the T3SS. |
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spelling | pubmed-104190722023-08-12 Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant Gil-Gil, Teresa Cuesta, Trinidad Hernando-Amado, Sara Reales-Calderón, Jose Antonio Corona, Fernando Linares, Juan F. Martínez, José L. Int J Mol Sci Article Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a ubiquitous nosocomial opportunistic pathogen that harbors many virulence determinants. Part of P. aeruginosa success colonizing a variety of habitats resides in its metabolic robustness and plasticity, which are the basis of its capability of adaptation to different nutrient sources and ecological conditions, including the infected host. Given this situation, it is conceivable that P. aeruginosa virulence might be, at least in part, under metabolic control, in such a way that virulence determinants are produced just when needed. Indeed, it has been shown that the catabolite repression control protein Crc, which together with the RNA chaperon Hfq regulates the P. aeruginosa utilization of carbon sources at the post-transcriptional level, also regulates, directly or indirectly, virulence-related processes in P. aeruginosa. Among them, Crc regulates P. aeruginosa cytotoxicity, likely by modulating the activity of the Type III Secretion System (T3SS), which directly injects toxins into eukaryotic host cells. The present work shows that the lack of Crc produces a Type III Secretion-defective phenotype in P. aeruginosa. The observed impairment is a consequence of a reduced expression of the genes encoding the T3SS, together with an impaired secretion of the proteins involved. Our results support that the impaired T3SS activity of the crc defective mutant is, at least partly, a consequence of a defective protein export, probably due to a reduced proton motive force. This work provides new information about the complex regulation of the expression and the activity of the T3SS in P. aeruginosa. Our results highlight the need of a robust bacterial metabolism, which is defective in the ∆crc mutant, to elicit complex and energetically costly virulence strategies, as that provided by the T3SS. MDPI 2023-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10419072/ /pubmed/37569678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512304 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gil-Gil, Teresa Cuesta, Trinidad Hernando-Amado, Sara Reales-Calderón, Jose Antonio Corona, Fernando Linares, Juan F. Martínez, José L. Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title | Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title_full | Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title_fullStr | Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title_full_unstemmed | Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title_short | Virulence and Metabolism Crosstalk: Impaired Activity of the Type Three Secretion System (T3SS) in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Crc-Defective Mutant |
title_sort | virulence and metabolism crosstalk: impaired activity of the type three secretion system (t3ss) in a pseudomonas aeruginosa crc-defective mutant |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10419072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37569678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512304 |
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