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Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence

Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems have been scarcely studied in Brucella abortus, the causative agent of brucellosis, which is one of the most prevalent zoonotic diseases worldwide. In this study, the roles of a putative type II TA system composed by a Zinc-dependent metalloproteinase (ZnMP) and a transc...

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Autores principales: Gómez, Leonardo A., Molina, Raúl E., Soto, Rodrigo I., Flores, Manuel R., Coloma-Rivero, Roberto F., Montero, David A., Oñate, Ángel A.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10538038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37755962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15090536
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author Gómez, Leonardo A.
Molina, Raúl E.
Soto, Rodrigo I.
Flores, Manuel R.
Coloma-Rivero, Roberto F.
Montero, David A.
Oñate, Ángel A.
author_facet Gómez, Leonardo A.
Molina, Raúl E.
Soto, Rodrigo I.
Flores, Manuel R.
Coloma-Rivero, Roberto F.
Montero, David A.
Oñate, Ángel A.
author_sort Gómez, Leonardo A.
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description Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems have been scarcely studied in Brucella abortus, the causative agent of brucellosis, which is one of the most prevalent zoonotic diseases worldwide. In this study, the roles of a putative type II TA system composed by a Zinc-dependent metalloproteinase (ZnMP) and a transcriptional regulator HTH-Xre were evaluated. The deletion of the open reading frame (ORF) BAB1_0270, coding for ZnMP, used to produce a mutant strain, allowed us to evaluate the survival and gene expression of B. abortus 2308 under oxidative conditions. Our results showed that the B. abortus mutant strain exhibited a significantly reduced capacity to survive under hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress. Furthermore, this mutant strain showed a decreased expression of genes coding for catalase (katE), alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (ahpC) and transcriptional regulators (oxyR and oxyR-like), as well as genes involved in the general stress response, phyR and rpoE1, when compared to the wild-type strain. These findings suggest that this type II ZnMP/HTH-Xre TA system is required by B. abortus to resist oxidative stress. Additionally, previous evidence has demonstrated that this ZnMP also participates in the acidic stress resistance and virulence of B. abortus 2308. Therefore, we propose a hypothetical regulatory function for this ZnMP/HTH-Xre TA system, providing insight into the stress response and its potential roles in the pathogenesis of B. abortus.
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spelling pubmed-105380382023-09-29 Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence Gómez, Leonardo A. Molina, Raúl E. Soto, Rodrigo I. Flores, Manuel R. Coloma-Rivero, Roberto F. Montero, David A. Oñate, Ángel A. Toxins (Basel) Article Toxin/antitoxin (TA) systems have been scarcely studied in Brucella abortus, the causative agent of brucellosis, which is one of the most prevalent zoonotic diseases worldwide. In this study, the roles of a putative type II TA system composed by a Zinc-dependent metalloproteinase (ZnMP) and a transcriptional regulator HTH-Xre were evaluated. The deletion of the open reading frame (ORF) BAB1_0270, coding for ZnMP, used to produce a mutant strain, allowed us to evaluate the survival and gene expression of B. abortus 2308 under oxidative conditions. Our results showed that the B. abortus mutant strain exhibited a significantly reduced capacity to survive under hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative stress. Furthermore, this mutant strain showed a decreased expression of genes coding for catalase (katE), alkyl hydroperoxide reductase (ahpC) and transcriptional regulators (oxyR and oxyR-like), as well as genes involved in the general stress response, phyR and rpoE1, when compared to the wild-type strain. These findings suggest that this type II ZnMP/HTH-Xre TA system is required by B. abortus to resist oxidative stress. Additionally, previous evidence has demonstrated that this ZnMP also participates in the acidic stress resistance and virulence of B. abortus 2308. Therefore, we propose a hypothetical regulatory function for this ZnMP/HTH-Xre TA system, providing insight into the stress response and its potential roles in the pathogenesis of B. abortus. MDPI 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10538038/ /pubmed/37755962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15090536 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/).
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Gómez, Leonardo A.
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Soto, Rodrigo I.
Flores, Manuel R.
Coloma-Rivero, Roberto F.
Montero, David A.
Oñate, Ángel A.
Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title_full Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title_fullStr Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title_full_unstemmed Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title_short Unraveling the Role of the Zinc-Dependent Metalloproteinase/HTH-Xre Toxin/Antitoxin (TA) System of Brucella abortus in the Oxidative Stress Response: Insights into the Stress Response and Virulence
title_sort unraveling the role of the zinc-dependent metalloproteinase/hth-xre toxin/antitoxin (ta) system of brucella abortus in the oxidative stress response: insights into the stress response and virulence
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10538038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37755962
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15090536
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