DNA Damage-Inducible Pyocin Expression Is Independent of RecA in xerC-Deleted Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
DNA Damage-Inducible Pyocin Expression Is Independent of RecA in xerC-Deleted Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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DOI：
10.1128/spectrum.01167-22
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发表时间：
2022-08-31
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Cabeen MT
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作者：
Bronson AS;Baggett NS;Cabeen MT
Pyocins are interbacterial killing complexes made by Pseudomonas aeruginosa primarily to enact intraspecific competition. DNA damage and the ensuing activation of RecA initiate canonical pyocin expression. We recently discovered that deletion of xerC, which encodes a tyrosine recombinase involved in chromosome decatenation, markedly elevates basal pyocin production independently of RecA. Interestingly, the already-elevated basal pyocin expression in ΔxerC cells is substantially further increased by ciprofloxacin treatment. Here, we asked whether this further increase is due to DNA damage additionally activating the canonical RecA-dependent pyocin expression pathway. We also interrogated the relationship between XerC recombinase activity and pyocin expression. Surprisingly, we find that DNA damage-induced pyocin stimulation in ΔxerC cells is independent of RecA but dependent on PrtN, implying a RecA-independent means of DNA damage sensing that activates pyocin expression via PrtN. In sharp contrast to the RecA independence of pyocin expression in ΔxerC strains, specific mutational inactivation of XerC recombinase activity (XerCY272F) caused modestly elevated basal pyocin expression and was further stimulated by DNA-damaging drugs, but both effects were fully RecA dependent. To test whether pyocins could be induced by chemically inactivating XerC, we deployed a previously characterized bacterial tyrosine recombinase inhibitor. However, the inhibitor did not activate pyocin expression even at growth-inhibitory concentrations, suggesting that its principal inhibitory activity resembles neither XerC absence nor enzymatic inactivation. Collectively, our results imply a second function of XerC, separate from its recombinase activity, whose absence permits RecA-independent but DNA damage-inducible pyocin expression. IMPORTANCE The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces pyocins—intraspecific, interbacterial killing complexes. The canonical pathway for pyocin production involves DNA damage and RecA activation. Pyocins are released by cell lysis, making production costly. We previously showed that cells lacking the tyrosine recombinase XerC produce pyocins independently of RecA. Here, we show that DNA-damaging agents stimulate pyocin expression in ΔxerC strains without involving RecA. However, strains mutated for XerC recombinase activity display strictly RecA-dependent pyocin production, and a known bacterial tyrosine recombinase inhibitor does not elicit pyocin expression. Our results collectively suggest that the use of XerC inhibition as an antipseudomonal strategy will require targeting the second function of XerC in regulating noncanonical pyocin production rather than targeting its recombinase activity.
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