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- Title
The LysR‐type transcription factor LsrB regulates beta‐lactam resistance in Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- Authors
Schmidt, Janka J.; Remme, Donata C. L. E.; Eisfeld, Jessica; Brandenburg, Vivian B.; Bille, Hannah; Narberhaus, Franz
- Abstract
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen, broadly known as the causal agent of the crown gall disease. The soil bacterium is naturally resistant to beta‐lactam antibiotics by utilizing the inducible beta‐lactamase AmpC. Our picture on the condition‐dependent regulation of ampC expression is incomplete. A known regulator is AmpR controlling the transcription of ampC in response to unrecycled muropeptides as a signal for cell wall stress. In our study, we uncovered the global transcriptional regulator LsrB as a critical player acting upstream of AmpR. Deletion of lsrB led to severe ampicillin and penicillin sensitivity, which could be restored to wild‐type levels by lsrB complementation. By transcriptome profiling via RNA‐Seq and qRT‐PCR and by electrophoretic mobility shift assays, we show that ampD coding for an anhydroamidase involved in peptidoglycan recycling is under direct negative control by LsrB. Controlling AmpD levels by the LysR‐type regulator in turn impacts the cytoplasmic concentration of cell wall degradation products and thereby the AmpR‐mediated regulation of ampC. Our results substantially expand the existing model of inducible beta‐lactam resistance in A. tumefaciens by establishing LsrB as higher‐level transcriptional regulator.
- Subjects
AGROBACTERIUM tumefaciens; TRANSCRIPTION factors; LACTAMS; PHYTOPATHOGENIC microorganisms; BETA lactam antibiotics; SOIL microbiology
- Publication
Molecular Microbiology, 2024, Vol 121, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0950-382X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mmi.15191