Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq

OBJECTIVE: The golden color of Staphylococcus aureus is due to the synthesis of carotenoid pigments. In Gram-negative bacteria, Hfq is a global posttranscriptional regulator, but its function in S. aureus remains obscure. The absence of Hfq in S. aureus was reported to correlate with production of c...

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Autores principales: Liu, Wenfeng, Boudry, Pierre, Bohn, Chantal, Bouloc, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-4934-4
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author Liu, Wenfeng
Boudry, Pierre
Bohn, Chantal
Bouloc, Philippe
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description OBJECTIVE: The golden color of Staphylococcus aureus is due to the synthesis of carotenoid pigments. In Gram-negative bacteria, Hfq is a global posttranscriptional regulator, but its function in S. aureus remains obscure. The absence of Hfq in S. aureus was reported to correlate with production of carotenoid pigment leading to the conclusion that Hfq was a negative regulator of the yellow color. However, we reported the construction of hfq mutants in several S. aureus strains and never noticed any color change; we therefore revisited the question of Hfq implication in S. aureus pigmentation. RESULTS: The absence or accumulation of Hfq does not affect S. aureus pigmentation.
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spelling pubmed-70076782020-02-13 Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq Liu, Wenfeng Boudry, Pierre Bohn, Chantal Bouloc, Philippe BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The golden color of Staphylococcus aureus is due to the synthesis of carotenoid pigments. In Gram-negative bacteria, Hfq is a global posttranscriptional regulator, but its function in S. aureus remains obscure. The absence of Hfq in S. aureus was reported to correlate with production of carotenoid pigment leading to the conclusion that Hfq was a negative regulator of the yellow color. However, we reported the construction of hfq mutants in several S. aureus strains and never noticed any color change; we therefore revisited the question of Hfq implication in S. aureus pigmentation. RESULTS: The absence or accumulation of Hfq does not affect S. aureus pigmentation. BioMed Central 2020-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7007678/ /pubmed/32033621 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-4934-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title_full Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title_fullStr Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title_full_unstemmed Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title_short Staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by Hfq
title_sort staphylococcus aureus pigmentation is not controlled by hfq
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32033621
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-020-4934-4
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