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Journal of Bacteriology, September 2005, p. 6058-6068, Vol. 187, No. 17
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.17.6058-6068.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

PtrB of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Suppresses the Type III Secretion System under the Stress of DNA Damage

Weihui Wu and Shouguang Jin*

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida 32610-0266

Received 5 April 2005/ Accepted 17 June 2005

In a search for regulatory genes of the type III secretion system (TTSS) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, transposon (Tn5) insertional mutants of the prtR gene were found defective in the TTSS. PrtR is an inhibitor of prtN, which encodes a transcriptional activator for pyocin synthesis genes. In P. aeruginosa, pyocin synthesis is activated when PrtR is degraded during the SOS response. Treatment of a wild-type P. aeruginosa strain with mitomycin C, a DNA-damaging agent, resulted in the inhibition of TTSS activation. A prtR/prtN double mutant had the same TTSS defect as the prtR mutant, and complementation by a prtR gene but not by a prtN gene restored the TTSS function. Also, overexpression of the prtN gene in wild-type PAK had no effect on the TTSS; thus, PrtN is not involved in the repression of the TTSS. To identify the PrtR-regulated TTSS repressor, another round of Tn mutagenesis was carried out in the background of a prtR/prtN double mutant. Insertion in a small gene, designated ptrB, restored the normal TTSS activity. Expression of ptrB is specifically repressed by PrtR, and mitomycin C-mediated suppression of the TTSS is also abolished in a ptrB mutant strain. Therefore, PtrB is a new TTSS repressor that coordinates TTSS repression and pyocin synthesis under the stress of DNA damage.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, P.O. Box 100266, 1600 SW Archer Rd., Gainesville, FL 32610-0266. Phone: (352) 392-8323. Fax: (352) 392-3133. E-mail: sjin{at}mgm.ufl.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, September 2005, p. 6058-6068, Vol. 187, No. 17
0021-9193/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.187.17.6058-6068.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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