title: A novel sensor kinase is required for Bordetella bronchiseptica to colonize the lower respiratory tract.
abstract: Bacterial virulence is influenced by the activity of two-component regulator systems (TCSs), which consist of membrane-bound sensor kinases that allow bacteria to sense the external environment and cytoplasmic, DNA-binding response regulator proteins that control appropriate gene expression. Respiratory pathogens of the Bordetella genus require the well-studied TCS BvgAS to control the expression of many genes required for colonization of the mammalian respiratory tract. Here we describe the identification of a novel gene in Bordetella bronchiseptica, plrS, the product of which shares sequence homology to several NtrY-family sensor kinases and is required for B. bronchiseptica to colonize and persist in the lower, but not upper, respiratory tract in rats and mice. The plrS gene is located immediately 5' to and presumably cotranscribed with a gene encoding a putative response regulator, supporting the idea that PlrS and the product of the downstream gene may compose a TCS. Consistent with this hypothesis, the PlrS-dependent colonization phenotype requires a conserved histidine that serves as the site of autophosphorylation in other sensor kinases, and in strains lacking plrS, the production and/or cellular localization of several immune-recognized proteins is altered in comparison to that in the wild-type strain. Because plrS is required for colonization and persistence only in the lower respiratory tract, a site where innate and adaptive immune mechanisms actively target infectious agents, we hypothesize that its role may be to allow Bordetella to resist the host immune response.
authors: Department of Biology, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, USA.
authors: Callan S
authors: CS
authors: Kaut
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authors: Duncan
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authors: JY
authors: Kim
authors: Joshua J
authors: JJ
authors: Maclaren
authors: Keith T
authors: KT
authors: Cochran
authors: Steven M
authors: SM
authors: Julio
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