title: Detection of a gene encoding a phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C that is co-ordinately expressed with listeriolysin in Listeria monocytogenes.
abstract: A phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) that is unique to the pathogenic Listeria species L. monocytogenes and L. ivanovii has been detected. Deletion analysis performed with Escherichia coli recombinants expressing PI-PLC activity together with maxicell analysis showed that a 34 kDa polypeptide was responsible for this activity. Nucleotide sequencing revealed that the gene encoding this polypeptide comprises 317 amino acid residues with a 22-amino-acid signal peptide. This gene, designated pic for phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C, is located back to back with the listeriolysin gene on the chromosome of L. monocytogenes where these genes are transcribed by divergent non-overlapping promoters. Expression of the pic gene is dependent on the product of the prfA gene, which also regulates expression of the listeriolysin gene in L. monocytogenes.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie, Universität Wurzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leimeister-Wächter
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Domann
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D006460:Hemolysin Proteins; D010727:Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases; D054801:Phosphoinositide Phospholipase C; D043265:Phosphatidylinositol Diacylglycerol-Lyase; C038705:hlyA protein, Listeria monocytogenes