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Journal of Bacteriology, June 2004, p. 3590-3598, Vol. 186, No. 11
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3590-3598.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase A (MsrA) Deficiency Affects the Survival of Mycobacterium smegmatis within Macrophages

T. Douglas,1 D. S. Daniel,2 B. K. Parida,1 C. Jagannath,2 and S. Dhandayuthapani1*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas 78229,1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas 770302

Received 8 December 2003/ Accepted 13 February 2004

Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) is an antioxidant repair enzyme which reduces oxidized methionine to methionine. Since oxidation of methionine in proteins impairs their function, an absence of MsrA leads to abnormalities in different organisms, including alterations in the adherence patterns and in vivo survival of certain pathogenic bacteria. To understand the role of MsrA in intracellular survival of bacteria, we disrupted the gene encoding MsrA in Mycobacterium smegmatis through homologous recombination. The msrA mutant strain of M. smegmatis exhibited significantly reduced intracellular survival in murine J774A.1 macrophages compared to the survival of its wild-type counterpart. Furthermore, immunofluorescence and immnunoblotting of phagosomes containing M. smegmatis strains revealed that the phagosomes with the msrA mutant strain acquired both p67phox of phagocyte NADPH oxidase and inducible nitric oxide synthase much earlier than the phagosomes with the wild-type strain. In addition, the msrA mutant strain of M. smegmatis was observed to be more sensitive to hydroperoxides than the wild-type strain was in vitro. These results suggest that MsrA plays an important role in both extracellular and intracellular survival of M. smegmatis.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78229. Phone: (210) 567-6613. Fax: (210) 567-6612. E-mail: dhandayutha{at}uthscsa.edu.


Journal of Bacteriology, June 2004, p. 3590-3598, Vol. 186, No. 11
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.11.3590-3598.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.




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