分泌的转录因子控制了Mycobacterium结核病的毒性
Sridharan Raghavan1, Paolo Manzanillo, Kaman Chan
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Defense, University of California, San Francisco, 600 16th Street, Campus Box 2200, San Francisco, California 94143-2200, USA.
Nature
|August 8, 2008
概括
一个新发现的调节器,EspR,控制着Mycobacterium tuberculosis中的ESX-1分泌系统. 这一系统对于结核病的毒性至关重要,并通过涉及EspR分泌的负反循环来调节.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
背景情况:
- 结核菌利用专门的分泌系统向宿主细胞输送毒性因子.
- ESX-1分泌系统对M.结核病的毒性至关重要,但其调节仍然不太了解.
研究的目的:
- 确定和描述M.结核病中ESX-1分泌系统的关键调节体.
- 阐明ESX-1系统的调节机制.
主要方法:
- 研究了EspR (Rv3849) 在ESX-1调节和M.结核病毒性的作用.
- 分析了EspR对Rv3616c-Rv3614c操作子的转录激活.
- 研究ESX-1系统对EspR的分泌及其对基因表达的影响.
主要成果:
- 在小鼠模型中,EspR对于ESX-1分泌和M.结核病毒性至关重要.
- EspR直接结合并激活Rv3616c-Rv3614c操作子的促进子.
- EspR是由ESX-1系统分泌的,产生一个负反循环,减少ESX-1活动.
结论:
- EspR作为ESX-1分泌系统的关键调节者.
- 一种新的负反机制通过EspR分泌控制ESX-1活动.
- 精细调节ESX-1分泌可能是M.结核病原因因分泌因子的抗原性质而对M.结核病发病至关重要.
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