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The Fusidic acid Stimulon of Staphylococcus aureus

ABSTRACT: Genome-wide transcriptional profiling studies of the growth of bacteria with antimicrobial agents often reveals aspects of the drug-specific protective bacterial response. Fusidic acid is a steroid antimicrobial that inhibits protein synthesis by interfering with the release of elongation factor G (EF-G) after it has functioned in the translocation step. Two hundred and seventy two genes were both up- and down-regulated in a fusidic acid-susceptible strain of Staphylococcus aureus following challenge with 2 mg/L-1 fusidic acid for 15 min. Many genes altered by fusidic acid challenge are associated with protein synthesis such as fusA, which encodes EF-G which was up-regulated following exposure to the drug. The Staphylococcus microarray meta-database which curates and compares S. aureus transcriptome data revealed that the fusidic acid stimulon has the greatest overlap with the S. aureus cold shock- and stringent-responses. Six out of 9 autolysin genes making up the two component YycFG regulon (ssaA1-ssaA4, isaA and sceD) were also upregulated by fusidic acid; as were a carboxylesterase (est) and two putative Emr-Qac-like multidrug efflux pumps (emr-qac1 and emr-qac2). Genes down-regulated by fusidic acid induction encode a putative secreted acid phosphatase (sapS) and a number of protease genes (yjbG1, yjbG2, htrA1 and htrA2). Transcriptional analysis in conjunction with mutant fusidic acid susceptibility experiments revealed that th45 e virulence gene regulatory agr operon, a YycFG controlled peptidoglycan hydrolase gene isaA and the proteases htrA1 and htrA2 are required for the expression of wild-type levels of fusidic acid susceptibility.

ORGANISM(S): Staphylococcus aureus

PROVIDER: GSE12210 | GEO | 2008/08/25

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA113721

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:The mechanisms leading to the vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) phenotype are incompletely understood. In an effort to identify VISA determinants, clinical hVISA strain MM66 and its 1st-step VISA mutants were compared. S. aureus microarrays, array data analysis protocols (NIAID's Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center), as well as comparative genomic sequencing (CGS) were utilized to determine VISA transcriptome alterations and mutations that define the MM66 VISA mechanism. In addition, whole cell autolysis, antimicrobial susceptibility tests, growth in the presence of salt, coagulase and hemolysis assays were performed to confirm VISA transcriptional alterations. Overall, 2 MM66 VISA demonstrated 85 up-regulated and 8 down-regulated genes in common. SAMMD (Staphylococcus aureus Microarray Metadatabase) analysis identified a significant differential gene expression overlap between the global stress response regulator sigB-controlled genes in MM66-3 and MM66-4. CGS analysis on a MM66 VISA revealed two mutations in: a sensory box histidine kinase (yycG) and a putative adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (apt). The yycFG two-component system has been reported to regulate whole cell autolysis and MM66 VISA demonstrated reduced whole cell autolysis. Five ssaA homologues (putative amidases) and a gene that expresses a bifunctional autolysin (atlA) controlled by YycFG were downregulated in MM66 VISA. One MM66 VISA mutant demonstrated drastic downregulation of a gene cluster (betA, gbsA, betB, and cudT) required for the osmoprotective response of S. aureus and MM66 VISA mutants demonstrated reduced growth in high salt media compared to MM66. Virulence genes were also downregulated (coa, hla, hlb, hlgA, hlgB, and hlgC) in 2 MM66 VISA mutants which also demonstrated reduced coagulase and hemolytic activities compared to MM66. pur operon genes were also upregulated in MM66 VISA and it is interesting that we have also found an apt mutation, since Apt activity can be inhibited by high AMP levels and reduces the conversion of AMP into adenine. Conclusion: Mutations in yycG and apt allow hVISA to acquire the VISA phenotype and yycFG is involved with altered autolytic activity in MM66 VISA.

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