细胞外ATP是细菌中的环境暗示
Sophie Tronnet1, Vikash Pandey1, Miriam Lloret-Berrocal1
1The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå 901 87, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå 901 87, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå 901 87, Sweden.
Cell reports
|October 10, 2025
概括
细胞外ATP (eATP) 向细菌发出信号,改变它们的新陈代谢,抗生素耐药性和毒性. 这项研究揭示了eATP是影响 prokaryotic 生理学和宿主相互作用的关键环境提示.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 细胞外ATP (eATP) 是动物和植物中已知的信号分子,调节免疫反应.
- 肠道细菌在炎症期间遇到eATP水平升高,但它们对它的反应在很大程度上是未知的.
研究的目的:
- 研究细菌,特别是大肠杆菌是否对细胞外ATP (eATP) 有反应.
- 阐明细菌对eATP的反应背后的分子和代谢机制.
- 确定eATP信号在细菌中的功能后果,包括对抗菌素耐药性和毒性的影响.
主要方法:
- 利用基因组规模的促进器库来评估eATP依赖的基因调节.
- 运用代谢学来分析细菌代谢物概况的变化.
- 综合基因组规模建模以了解全球代谢转变.
- 测试了eATP对细菌对抗生素和抗微生物的敏感性的影响.
主要成果:
- 大肠杆菌表现出对eATP的时间,度和介质依赖的ATP特异性反应.
- eATP调节了第二信使通路,并调节了参与新陈代谢,生物膜形成和信封应激的基因.
- 代谢和建模分析揭示了细菌代谢网络和生物质组成的显著变化.
- 细菌接触eATP会影响对抗生素和抗菌的敏感性.
- 在致病性细菌中,eATP被发现可以控制毒性因子的表达.
结论:
- 细胞外ATP (eATP) 作为 prokaryotes 的一个重要的环境提示,广泛调节他们的生理学.
- 细菌对eATP的反应会影响抗微生物耐药性和毒性,这表明它们在宿主微生物相互作用中的作用.
- 细菌中的eATP信号代表了一种新的调节机制,对了解微生物生态和病原体产生有影响.
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