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- The Mycobacterium tuberculosis relBE toxin:antitoxin genes are stress-responsive modules that regulate growth through translation inhibition
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Shaleen B. Korch , Vandana Malhotra , Heidi Contreras , Josephine E. Clark-Curtiss
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(11):783-795. Published online October 28, 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-015-5333-8
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Abstract
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) genes are ubiquitous among bacteria
and are associated with persistence and dormancy. Following
exposure to unfavorable environmental stimuli, several species
(Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Myxococcus
xanthus) employ toxin proteins such as RelE and MazF to
downregulate growth or initiate cell death. Mycobacterium
tuberculosis possesses three Rel TA modules (RelMtb): RelBEMtb,
RelFGMtb and RelJKMtb (Rv1246c-Rv1247c, Rv2865-Rv2866,
and Rv3357-Rv3358, respectively), which inhibit mycobacterial
growth when the toxin gene (relE, relG, relK) is expressed
independently of the antitoxin gene (relB, relF, relJ).
In the present study, we examined the in vivo mechanism of
the RelEMtb toxin protein, the impact of RelEMtb on M. tuberculosis
physiology and the environmental conditions that regulate
all three relMtb modules. RelEMtb negatively impacts
growth and the structural integrity of the mycobacterial envelope,
generating cells with aberrant forms that are prone
to extensive aggregation. At a time coincident with growth
defects, RelEMtb mediates mRNA degradation in vivo resulting
in significant changes to the proteome. We establish that
relMtb modules are stress responsive, as all three operons are
transcriptionally activated following mycobacterial exposure
to oxidative stress or nitrogen-limiting growth environments.
Here we present evidence that the relMtb toxin:antitoxin family
is stress-responsive and, through the degradation of mRNA,
the RelEMtb toxin influences the growth, proteome and morphology
of mycobacterial cells.
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