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The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) is an evolving infectious pathogen associated with high mortality. The convergence of hypervirulence and multidrug resistance further challenges the clinical treatment options for K. pneumoniae infections. The QseBC two-component system (TCS) is a component...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9019566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35464966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.817494 |
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author | Lv, Jingnan Zhu, Jie Wang, Ting Xie, Xiaofang Wang, Tao Zhu, Zhichen Chen, Liang Zhong, Fengyun Du, Hong |
author_facet | Lv, Jingnan Zhu, Jie Wang, Ting Xie, Xiaofang Wang, Tao Zhu, Zhichen Chen, Liang Zhong, Fengyun Du, Hong |
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description | Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) is an evolving infectious pathogen associated with high mortality. The convergence of hypervirulence and multidrug resistance further challenges the clinical treatment options for K. pneumoniae infections. The QseBC two-component system (TCS) is a component of quorum-sensing regulatory cascade and functions as a global regulator of biofilm growth, bacterial motility, and virulence in Escherichia coli. However, the functional mechanisms of QseBC in hvKP have not been reported, and we aim to examine the role of QseBC in regulating virulence in hvKP strain ATCC43816. The CRISPR-Cas9 system was used to construct qseB, qseC, and qseBC knockout in ATCC43816. No significant alterations in the growth and antibiotic susceptibility were detected between wild-type and mutants. The deletion of qseC led to an increase of biofilm formation, resistance to serum killing, and high mortality in the G. mellonella model. RNAseq differential gene expression analysis exhibited that gene-associated biofilm formation (glgC, glgP, glgA, gcvA, bcsA, ydaM, paaF, ptsG), bacterial type VI secretion system (virB4, virB6, virB10, vgrG, hcp), and biosynthesis of siderophore (entC, entD, entE) were significantly upregulated in comparison with the wild-type control. In addition, qseB, ygiW (encode OB-family protein), and AraC family transcriptional regulator IT767_23090 genes showed highest expressions in the absence of QseC, which might be related to increased virulence. The study provided new insights into the functional importance of QseBC in regulating the virulence of hvKP. |
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spelling | pubmed-90195662022-04-21 The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 Lv, Jingnan Zhu, Jie Wang, Ting Xie, Xiaofang Wang, Tao Zhu, Zhichen Chen, Liang Zhong, Fengyun Du, Hong Front Microbiol Microbiology Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) is an evolving infectious pathogen associated with high mortality. The convergence of hypervirulence and multidrug resistance further challenges the clinical treatment options for K. pneumoniae infections. The QseBC two-component system (TCS) is a component of quorum-sensing regulatory cascade and functions as a global regulator of biofilm growth, bacterial motility, and virulence in Escherichia coli. However, the functional mechanisms of QseBC in hvKP have not been reported, and we aim to examine the role of QseBC in regulating virulence in hvKP strain ATCC43816. The CRISPR-Cas9 system was used to construct qseB, qseC, and qseBC knockout in ATCC43816. No significant alterations in the growth and antibiotic susceptibility were detected between wild-type and mutants. The deletion of qseC led to an increase of biofilm formation, resistance to serum killing, and high mortality in the G. mellonella model. RNAseq differential gene expression analysis exhibited that gene-associated biofilm formation (glgC, glgP, glgA, gcvA, bcsA, ydaM, paaF, ptsG), bacterial type VI secretion system (virB4, virB6, virB10, vgrG, hcp), and biosynthesis of siderophore (entC, entD, entE) were significantly upregulated in comparison with the wild-type control. In addition, qseB, ygiW (encode OB-family protein), and AraC family transcriptional regulator IT767_23090 genes showed highest expressions in the absence of QseC, which might be related to increased virulence. The study provided new insights into the functional importance of QseBC in regulating the virulence of hvKP. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9019566/ /pubmed/35464966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.817494 Text en Copyright © 2022 Lv, Zhu, Wang, Xie, Wang, Zhu, Chen, Zhong and Du. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Lv, Jingnan Zhu, Jie Wang, Ting Xie, Xiaofang Wang, Tao Zhu, Zhichen Chen, Liang Zhong, Fengyun Du, Hong The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title | The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title_full | The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title_fullStr | The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title_short | The Role of the Two-Component QseBC Signaling System in Biofilm Formation and Virulence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC43816 |
title_sort | role of the two-component qsebc signaling system in biofilm formation and virulence of hypervirulent klebsiella pneumoniae atcc43816 |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9019566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35464966 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.817494 |
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