文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Su, Zhenhe ¹ ; Han, Sen ² ; Fu, Zheng Qing ⁴ ; Qian, Guoliang ² ; Liu, Fengquan ¹ ;

作者机构： 1.Jiangsu Acad Agr Sci, Inst Plant Protect, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

2.Nanjing Agr Univ, Coll Plant Protect, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

3.Nanjing Agr Univ, Key Lab Integrated Management Crop Dis & Pests, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China

4.Univ South Carolina, Dept Biol Sci, Columbia, SC USA

关键词： 4-HBA;HSAF;Lysobacter;MarR

期刊名称：APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY （ 影响因子：4.792； 五年影响因子：5.26 ）

ISSN： 0099-2240

年卷期： 2018 年 84 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Lysobacter enzymogenes is a Gram-negative, environmentally ubiquitous bacterium that produces a secondary metabolite, called heat-stable antifungal factor (HSAF), as an antifungal factor against plant and animal fungal pathogens. 4-Hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA) is a newly identified diffusible factor that regulates HSAF synthesis via L. enzymogenes LysR (LysRLe), an LysR-type transcription factor (TF). Here, to identify additional TFs within the 4-HBA regulatory pathway that control HSAF production, we reanalyzed the LenB2-based transcriptomic data, in which LenB2 is the enzyme responsible for 4-HBA production. This survey led to identification of three TFs (Le4806, Le4969, and Le3904). Of them, LarR (Le4806), a member of the MarR family proteins, was identified as a new TF that participated in the 4-HBA-dependent regulation of HSAF production. Our data show the following: (i) that LarR is a downstream component of the 4-HBA regulatory pathway controlling the HSAF level, while LysRLe is the receptor of 4-HBA; (ii) that 4-HBA and LysRLe have opposite regulatory effects on larR transcription whereby larR transcript is negatively modulated by 4-HBA while LysRLe, in contrast, exerts positive transcriptional regulation by directly binding to the larR promoter without being affected by 4-HBA in vitro; (iii) that LarR, similar to LysRLe, can bind to the promoter of the HSAF biosynthetic gene operon, leading to positive regulation of HSAF production; and (iv) that LarR and LysRLe cannot interact and instead control HSAF biosynthesis independently. These results outline a previously uncharacterized mechanism by which biosynthesis of the antibiotic HSAF in L. enzymogenes is modulated by the interplay of 4-HBA, a diffusible molecule, and two different TFs. IMPORTANCE Bacteria use diverse chemical signaling molecules to regulate a wide range of physiological and cellular processes. 4-HBA is an "old" chemical molecule that is produced by diverse bacterial species, but its regulatory function and working mechanism remain largely unknown. We previously found that 4-HBA in L. enzymogenes could serve as a diffusible factor regulating HSAF synthesis via LysRLe. Here, we further identified LarR, an MarR family protein, as a second TF that participates in the 4-HBA-dependent regulation of HSAF biosynthesis. Our results dissected how LarR acts as a protein linker to connect 4-HBA and HSAF synthesis, whereby LarR also has cross talk with LysRLe. Thus, our findings not only provide fundamental insight regarding how a diffusible molecule (4-HBA) adopts two different types of TFs for coordinating HSAF biosynthesis but also show the use of applied microbiology to increase the yield of the antibiotic HSAF by modification of the 4-HBA regulatory pathway in L. enzymogenes.