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Journal of Bacteriology, January 2000, p. 225-227, Vol. 182, No. 1
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Inorganic Polyphosphate Is Required for Motility of Bacterial Pathogens

M. Harunur Rashid, Narayana N. Rao, and Arthur Kornberg*

Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305

Received 19 April 1999/Accepted 11 October 1999


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The ppk gene encodes polyphosphate kinase (PPK), the principal enzyme in many bacteria responsible for the synthesis of inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) from ATP. A null mutation in the ppk gene of six bacterial pathogens renders them greatly impaired in motility on semisolid agar plates; this defect can be corrected by the introduction of ppk gene in trans. In view of the fact that the motility of pathogens is essential to invade and establish systemic infections in host cells, this impairment in motility suggests a crucial and essential role of PPK or polyP in bacterial pathogenesis.


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Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is a linear polymer of hundreds of orthophosphate residues linked by high-energy phosphoanhydride bonds. It is ubiquitous in nature (10), having been found in every bacterial, plant, and animal cell. Among the many functions proposed for polyP is a role in Escherichia coli in regulating the networks essential for responses to nutritional stringencies and environmental stresses and for survival in the stationary phase of growth (2, 15, 16). The regulatory role in E. coli is inferred from the behavior of null mutants of ppk, the gene that encodes polyP kinase (PPK), the enzyme responsible for the synthesis of polyP from ATP.

Inasmuch as some virulence factors are also expressed in stationary phase (11, 19), there may be a dependence on polyP for gene regulation in a pathogen (23). The relationship of polyP to virulence in pathogens is suggested by three observations: (i) massive accumulation of polyP in Helicobacter pylori during its infectious stage (S. Liu and A. Kornberg, unpublished data), (ii) sensitivity of the ppk mutant of Neisseria meningitidis to 10% human serum (22), and (iii) coregulation of capsular polysaccharide (alginate) synthesis and polyP accumulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (9).

Among these three pathogens and at least ten others, there is a remarkable conservation of the PPK amino acid sequence (reference 23 and C.-M. Tzeng and A. Kornberg, unpublished data). This list of pathogens includes P. aeruginosa, which causes infections in humans, particularly with cystic fibrosis patients, burn victims, and individuals with AIDS or cancer. Other pathogens in this list are Salmonella spp., the causative agents of typhoid and/or gastroenteritis; Vibrio cholerae, the cause of severe diarrheal disease; Klebsiella pneumoniae, an agent of pneumonia in humans; H. pylori, the cause of chronic gastritis and peptic ulcers; and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae, the agents of tuberculosis and leprosy, respectively.

To elucidate the roles of polyP in bacterial pathogenesis, we prepared ppk null mutants of P. aeruginosa PAO1, V. cholerae 92A1552, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium FIRN, and Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin SVA47, in addition to the available E. coli MG1655 and K. pneumoniae ATCC9621 mutants. The ppk::tet mutation in P. aeruginosa and the ppk::kan mutations in V. cholerae and Salmonella serovars Typhimurium and Dublin were verified at the genetic level either by genomic PCR or Southern hybridization. Biochemical verifications were performed by assaying the loss of activities of PPK and exopolyphosphatase (PPX) (where appropriate) relative to the wild type and by the deficiency in polyP accumulation under defined conditions (unpublished data).

To examine whether the ppk mutation has any effect on the flagellar motility of these pathogens, the motility of these mutants was compared with that of the corresponding wild-type strains on swim plates (1% tryptone, 0.5% NaCl) containing 0.3% agar. As shown in Fig. 1 for P. aeruginosa, the mutant is severely impaired in motility. Since the P. aeruginosa ppk mutant still accumulates at least 20% as much polyP under some conditions compared to the wild type (unpublished data), the mutant was transformed with a plasmid overexpressing the yeast PPX (ScPPX1) (24) to deplete residual polyP. This strain behaved much like the mutant. When the mutant was transformed with a plasmid expressing P. aeruginosa PPK, the motility was completely restored. This clearly demonstrates the dependence of flagellar motility on PPK function. This observation has been extended to other pathogens (Table 1). Impairments of swarming in the ppk mutants were between 13 and 79% of those of the wild-type levels. As in P. aeruginosa, the motility deficiency of the mutant could be complemented in E. coli by introducing the ppk gene on a plasmid.


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  		FIG. 1.   Swimming motility of P. aeruginosa PAO1 wild-type (WT) and derivative strains. The flagellum-mediated motility of the strains was assessed on tryptone swim plates (1% tryptone, 0.5% NaCl, 0.3% agar) with carbenicillin (300 µg/ml) and IPTG (isopropyl-beta -D-thiogalactopyranoside) (1 mM) after 12 h of growth at 30°C. Migration of the cells from the point of inoculation (observed as a turbid zone) indicates that a strain is proficient for flagellar-mediated motility. The strains are (clockwise from upper left) PAO1/p66HE (WT plus vector control), PAOM-5/p66HE (Delta ppk plus vector control), PAOM-5/pSCPPX (Delta ppk plus PPX+++), and PAOM-5/pPAPPK (Delta ppk plus PPK+++).

                              
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  		TABLE 1.   Flagellum-mediated motility of pathogens on swim plates

To determine whether the impairment in swimming motility of the ppk mutants on semisolid agar plates is due to a growth impairment, the growth of E. coli and P. aeruginosa wild-type and ppk mutants was monitored in shaking cultures at 30°C in tryptone broth. No growth defect could be observed (Fig. 2) to account for the reduced swimming motility of the ppk mutants on semisolid tryptone plates. Electron microscopy revealed that the ppk mutants of E. coli, P. aeruginosa, K. pneumoniae, V. cholerae, and Salmonella serovar Dublin all possessed apparently intact flagella indistinguishable from those of the wild-type strains (data not shown). Thus, the effect of polyP on swimming motility is likely due to altered functioning of the flagella.


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  		FIG. 2.   Growth curves of E. coli MG1655 (A) and P. aeruginosa PAO1 (B) wild-type and ppk mutants in tryptone broth at 30°C. Growth was monitored at an optical density at 600 nm (OD600). Symbols: , wild type; , mutant (ppk).

Direct microscopic observations revealed that the E. coli and P. aeruginosa ppk mutants were motile in liquid culture. Cells were in exponential phase (0.4 to 0.7 optical density at 600 nm) grown in tryptone broth (1% tryptone, 0.5% NaCl) at 30°C. Peritrichous E. coli and monotrichous P. aeruginosa change direction of movement by similar mechanisms, a reversal of flagellar rotation (21); in E. coli, reversal causes tumbling, and in P. aeruginosa, reversal causes the bacteria to back up. The ppk mutants of E. coli and P. aeruginosa along with their respective wild-types examined under phase-contrast microscopy (magnification, ×800) revealed no striking differences in changes of movement direction between wild-type and mutant cells. Possibly, more refined techniques will disclose the role of polyP in flagellar swimming.

Flagella are highly complex and conserved bacterial organelles requiring coordinated and ordered expression of about 50 genes for their synthesis and function (18). The roles of flagella in chemotaxis and motility are important for the survival of many organisms. A connection between virulence and flagellum-based motility has long been observed in many pathogens, some of which require functional flagella for virulence (7, 8, 12) and others in which motility must be suppressed for virulence (1).

The roles of flagella and flagellum-mediated motility in P. aeruginosa pulmonary and burn infections have been studied in detail (4-6, 13, 20). In the pathogenesis of respiratory tract infection, it has been shown that flagella and/or flagellar motility are necessary at three distinct stages of infection: (i) acquisition of motile organisms, (ii) immunostimulation, and (iii) adaptation (6). Flagellar motility and type IV pili-based twitching motility have been found necessary for the development of a P. aeruginosa biofilm (14). Bacterial biofilms are troublesome when they form on tissues, on catheters, or on medical implants because of their innate resistance to antibiotics and other biocides (for a review, see reference 3). We have found that the ppk mutant of P. aeruginosa is also defective in twitching motility and biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces (data not shown). Taken together, these several lines of evidence suggest that PPK or polyP might be a virulence determinant of pathogens, like P. aeruginosa.


    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to the NIH for support of this research.

We thank A. Kuroda, K.-S. Kim, C. Fraley, and N. Ogawa, respectively, for strains of K. pneumoniae, Salmonella serovar Typhimurium, Salmonella serovar Dublin, and V. cholerae. We thank E. Peter Greenberg (University of Iowa) for helpful suggestions.


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* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305. Phone: (650) 723-6167. Fax: (650) 723-6783. E-mail: akornber{at}cmgm.stanford.edu.


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