The SaeR/S Gene Regulatory System is Essential for Innate Immune Evasion by Staphylococcus aureus
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ABSTRACT: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is problematic both in hospitals and the community. Currently, we have limited understanding of mechanisms of innate immune evasion used by S. aureus. To that end, we created an isogenic deletion mutant in strain MW2 (USA400) of the saeR/S two-component gene regulatory system and studied its role in mouse models of pathogenesis and during human neutrophil interaction. In this study, we demonstrate saeR/S plays a distinct role in S. aureus pathogenesis and is vital for virulence of MW2 in a mouse model of sepsis. Moreover, deletion of saeR/S significantly impaired survival of MW2 in human blood and after neutrophil phagocytosis. Microarray analysis of genes influenced by saeR/S demonstrated SaeR/S of MW2 influences a wide variety of genes with diverse biological functions. These data shed new insight into how virulence is regulated in S. aureus and associates a specific staphylococcal gene-regulatory system with invasive staphylococcal disease. Wild type control vs mutant at two different growth phases
ORGANISM(S): Staphylococcus aureus
SUBMITTER:
Courtney Iverson Shannon Griffith Kevin R Braughton Mark DeWald Stanislava Kocianova Tyler K Nygaard Daniel E Sturdevant Adeline R Whitney Michael Otto Frank R DeLeo Jennifer Jones Cuong Vuong Dan Sturdevant Jovanka M Voyich
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15067 | ArrayExpress | 2010-05-14
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): GSE15067PRJNA114843
REPOSITORIES: GEO, ArrayExpress
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