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- Title
PptAB Exports Rgg Quorum-Sensing Peptides in Streptococcus.
- Authors
Chang, Jennifer C.; Federle, Michael J.
- Abstract
A transposon mutagenesis screen designed to identify mutants that were defective in peptide-pheromone signaling of the Rgg2/Rgg3 pathway in Streptococcus pyogenes generated insertions in sixteen loci displaying diminished reporter activity. Fourteen unique transposon insertions were mapped to pptAB, an ABC-type transporter recently described to export sex pheromones of Enterococcus faecalis. Consistent with an idea that PptAB exports signaling peptides, the pheromones known as SHPs (hort ydrophobic eptides) were no longer detected in cell-free culture supernatants in a generated deletion mutant of pptAB. PptAB exporters are conserved among the Firmicutes, but their function and substrates remain unclear. Therefore, we tested a pptAB mutant generated in Streptococcus mutans and found that while secretion of heterologously expressed SHP peptides required PptAB, secretion of the S. mutans endogenous pheromone XIP (signducing eptide) was only partially disrupted, indicating that a secondary secretion pathway for XIP exists.
- Subjects
TRANSPOSONS; BACTERIA pheromones; QUORUM sensing; DNA insertion elements; STREPTOCOCCUS; CELLULAR signal transduction; BACTERIA
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2016, Vol 11, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0168461