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Journal of Bacteriology, April 2002, p. 2319-2323, Vol. 184, No. 8
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.8.2319-2323.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

EvgA of the Two-Component Signal Transduction System Modulates Production of the YhiUV Multidrug Transporter in Escherichia coli

Kunihiko Nishino and Akihito Yamaguchi*

Department of Cell Membrane Biology, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Osaka 567-0047, Japan

Received 28 September 2001/ Accepted 8 January 2002


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ABSTRACT
 
Overexpression of the EvgA regulator of the two-component signal transduction system was previously found to modulate multidrug resistance of Escherichia coli by increasing efflux of drugs (K. Nishino and A. Yamaguchi, J. Bacteriol. 183:1455-1458, 2001). Here we present data showing that EvgA contributes to multidrug resistance through increased expression of the multidrug transporter yhiUV gene.


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TEXT
 
For many years, antibiotics have been effective in the treatment of many infectious diseases caused by a range of pathogens. The occurrence of antibiotic resistance, however, has transformed some previously treatable diseases into a new threat to public health. One of the mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance involves the extrusion of the compounds by an efflux pump or carrier. The most intriguing mechanisms of drug extrusion are those that include a wide variety of structurally unrelated compounds as substrates for multidrug resistance (MDR) transporters (14, 23). MDR transporters are found in a variety of bacterial species (19, 20, 26). Recently we cloned 37 putative drug transporter genes of Escherichia coli and investigated their drug resistance phenotypes (15). During the course of that study, we found that the DNA locus including both the putative drug efflux transporter emrKY genes and the two-component signal transduction system evgSA genes conferred MDR to E. coli. We showed that the MDR phenomenon was not due to the emrKY genes but was due to the response regulator evgA gene (16).

Two-component systems are signal transduction pathways in prokaryotic organisms responding to environmental conditions (4, 18). A typical two-component system consists of two types of signal transducers, a sensory kinase and a response regulator. The sensory kinase monitors some environmental conditions and accordingly modulates the phosphorylation state of the response regulator. The response regulator regulates gene expression and/or cell behavior. The EvgSA two-component system is known to regulate the expression of the putative drug efflux transporter emrKY genes (5).

Effect of deletion of yhiUV on MDR induced by overexpression of the EvgA regulator. In our previous study (16), we found that overexpression of the gene regulator EvgA modulates MDR. E. coli KAM3 cells (13) harboring the pUCA plasmid carrying evgA showed drug resistance against deoxycholate (>32-fold compared to the no-plasmid control level), doxorubicin (64-fold), rhodamine 6G (16-fold), erythromycin (8-fold), crystal violet (8-fold), benzalkonium (8-fold), and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) (4-fold) (Table 1). Since EvgA is known to positively regulate emrKY gene expression (5), we cloned emrKY into the pQE30 expression vector and observed that E. coli cells overexpressing EmrKY acquire resistance only to deoxycholate (eightfold) (Table 1). These results suggest a clear difference between the effects of overexpression of EmrKY and EvgA on MDR (16). One possibility is that EvgA regulates an additional, unknown multidrug efflux system(s), different from EmrKY. Previously, we cloned 37 known and putative drug transporter genes of E. coli and investigated the drug resistance activities (15). In those studies, we found that the drug resistance pattern conferred by overexpression of YhiUV is very similar to that conferred by EvgA (Table 1). In order to investigate whether EvgA regulates the expression of yhiUV, we constructed a yhiUV deletion mutant of E. coli KAM3. Construction of a chromosomal in-frame deletion mutant was performed by the gene replacement method as previously described (8), using plasmid pKO3{Delta}yhiUV (Table 2). The yhiUV deletion strain itself exhibited no alteration in drug susceptibility compared to the parental strain KAM3 (Table 1), probably because yhiUV are not expressed under normal conditions. This observation is in good agreement with the results of the systematic deletion of putative drug transporter genes in E. coli as reported by Sulavik et al. (27). In contrast to the case for the KAM3 strain, even when the cells were transformed with plasmid pUCA carrying the evgA gene, the mutant that lacks the yhiUV genes exhibited neither increased drug resistance (Table 1) (except for deoxycholate) nor increased drug efflux (Fig. 1). These observations indicate that EvgA-induced MDR is caused by stimulation of yhiUV gene expression. In regard to deoxycholate resistance, EvgA overexpression in the yhiUV deletion mutant caused a moderate increase (fourfold), which is probably due to EvgA-dependent EmrKY expression. Overexpression of either evgA or yhiUV resulted in different levels of resistance to some compounds, probably due to differences in yhiUV expression levels.


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  		TABLE 1. Resistance of E. coli cells harboring a plasmid carrying evgA, yhiUV, or emrKY


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  		TABLE 2. Bacterial strains, plasmids, and oligonucleotides used in this study



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  		FIG. 1. Active efflux of doxorubicin (A) and rhodamine 6G (B) from E. coli KAM3 and KAM3{Delta}yhiUV cells overproducing EvgA. Active efflux of doxorubicin and rhodamine 6G from E. coli cells was measured as previously described (16). In order to obtain maximal preloading of the fluorophore, the cells were preincubated with 11.5 µM doxorubicin (A) or 1 µM rhodamine 6G (B) in the presence of the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (40 µM) at 37°C for 1 h. The cells were then centrifuged and resuspended in the same medium containing 25 mM glucose without fluorescent drugs and carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, followed by fluorescence measurement. Doxorubicin transport was measured with excitation at 478 nm and emission at 591 nm. Rhodamine 6G transport was measured with excitation at 529 nm and emission at 553 nm.

Effect of EvgA on expression of the MDR transporter YhiUV. The data presented above suggest that the level of the yhiUV transcripts may be increased by EvgA overproduction. To test this hypothesis, total cellular RNA was isolated from pUC119- or pUCA-carrying KAM3 cells. Northern blot analysis using the yhiU probe DNA shows that the yhiUV mRNA is detected in the EvgA-overproducing cells but not in the host KAM3 cells (Fig. 2), indicating that the overproduction of EvgA stimulates yhiUV transcription.



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  		FIG. 2. Northern blot analysis of mRNA from E. coli cells. KAM3 cells harboring pUC119 or pUCA were grown in Luria-Bertani medium to an optical density at 600 nm of 0.8 at 37°C, and the RNA was isolated by using the SV total RNA isolation system (Promega). The membranes (Hybond-N; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) were hybridized at high stringency (68°C) with the probe for yhiU labeled with [{alpha}-32P]dCTP by random priming. The arrow indicates the main transcript. Each lane contains 15 µg of total RNA.

Determination of drug transporter transcript levels by quantitative real-time PCR. In our previous study, we found that 20 intrinsic drug transporter genes conferred drug resistance (15). We investigated the changes of the expression levels of these transporter genes (listed in Table 3, except for acrAB) and the evgA-induced yfdX gene (16) when EvgA was overproduced in E. coli KAM3 (lacking acrAB). Quantitative real-time reverse transcription-PCR was used to verify the expression changes. Total RNA was purified from KAM3 cells harboring pUC119 or pUCA, using RNAprotect Bacteria Reagent (Qiagen) and the SV total RNA isolation system (Promega). cDNA samples were synthesized from total RNA by using TaqMan reverse transcription reagents (PE Applied Biosystems) and random hexamers. Specific primer pairs were designed with the ABI PRISM Primer Express software (PE Applied Biosystems), and then real-time PCR was performed with each specific primer pair using SYBR Green PCR Master Mix (PE Applied Biosystems) and run on an ABI PRISM 7000 sequence detection system (PE Applied Biosystems). The results are shown in Table 3. Increases of 470-fold in yhiU expression, 28-fold in emrK expression, and 3,200-fold in yfdX expression were observed upon evgA amplification.


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  		TABLE 3. Fold induction of transcripts attributed to evgA amplification as determined by amplification of cDNA samples

Binding of the EvgA protein to the DNA fragment containing the yhiU promoter region. If EvgA regulates transcription of yhiUV directly, it may bind to the yhiU promoter region. In order to test this possibility, we constructed plasmid pQE30evgA, which encodes a His6-tagged EvgA (His6-EvgA) under control of the T5 promoter. The His6-EvgA protein was overproduced in E. coli M15(pREP4, pQE30evgA) and purified by Ni-chelating affinity beads (Qiagen). The binding of His6-EvgA to the yhiU and emrK promoter regions was tested by using the electrophoretic mobility shift assay. DNAs of 338 bp containing the yhiU or emrK promoter regions were amplified by PCR and used as target DNAs for the mobility shift assay. The macA (6) promoter region was also amplified as a negative control. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay showed that both the pyhiU and pemrK DNA fragments exhibited changes in mobility in the presence of 5 µg of His6-EvgA (Fig. 3), indicating that EvgA directly binds to both the yhiU and emrK promoter regions.



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  		FIG. 3. Gel mobility shift profile of EvgA-responsive DNA fragments. DNA fragments of 338 bp including the mac, emr, and yhi promoter regions were prepared by PCR. The binding reaction was done in a total volume of 10 µl of binding buffer (20 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 50 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM ß-mercaptoethanol, and 10% glycerol). Each reaction mixture contained 5 µg of His6-EvgA (+) or bovine serum albumin as a negative control (-) as well as 1 µg of DNA. After they were incubated at 37°C for 30 min, the mixtures were put onto a 4% NuSieve 3:1 (BioWhittaker Molecular Applications) agarose gel, and electrophoresis was done. The gel was stained with ethidium bromide and photographed under UV illumination.

Effect of a mutation at the phosphorylation site of EvgA. In a two-component regulatory system, a sensor kinase phosphorylates a conserved aspartic acid in a response regulator (25). The phosphorylation is a trigger for a signal transduction event. A phospho-accepting domain of the response regulator is composed of a short consensus motif, {Delta}{Delta}D (where {Delta} is a nonpolar amino acid such as I, L, M, or V) (12). The EvgA gene regulator also contains the conserved motif 50IID52, and the aspartate (D) 52 is thought to be a phosphorylation site (29). Another adjacent aspartate, Asp54 in EvgA, which does not seem to be a phosphorylation site, was used as a control in the following experiments. We replaced Asp52 and Asp54 individually with alanine by the Kunkel method (7). The mutant evgA genes were cloned into pUC119 (31), and the resulting plasmids were named pUCA-D52A and pUCA-D54A, respectively. Total cell proteins from E. coli KAM3 cells harboring the constructed plasmids were separated on an SDS-polyacrylamide gel, and EvgA expression was detected by Coomassie brilliant blue staining (data not shown). KAM3 cells transformed by pUCA-D52A were no longer multidrug resistant, except for having resistance to doxorubicin, whereas cells transformed by pUCA-D54A showed resistance similar to that conferred by pUCA (Table 1). pUCA-D52A showed moderate doxorubicin resistance (eightfold), possibly due to phosphorylation of another amino acid in place of Asp52. When the evgA-D52A mutant gene was cloned into pQE30, the cells harboring the mutant plasmid showed gradually increasing moderate MDR depending on the IPTG (isopropyl-ß-D-thiogalactopyranoside) concentration (data not shown). Doxorubicin and rhodamine 6G efflux activities of cells carrying pUCA-D52A were significantly lower than those of cells carrying pUCA (data not shown). Thus, phosphorylation of EvgA is required for modulation of MDR.

YhiUV and EmrKY transporters require the outer membrane channel TolC for their function. The YhiV and EmrY transporter proteins belong to the resistance-nodulation-cell division and major facilitator superfamily transporter families, respectively. YhiU and EmrK both belong to the membrane fusion protein family. AcrA and EmrA, which are typical membrane fusion proteins, show 70 and 65% sequence similarity to YhiU and EmrK, respectively. Membrane fusion protein-dependent drug transporters in general depend on the multifunctional outer membrane channel TolC for their function (3, 6, 9). In order to investigate the role of TolC in the YhiUV and EmrKY systems, the TolC-deficient strain E. coli ZK796 (32) was transformed with pUCyhiUV and pQE30emrKY. The resulting transformed cells showed no increase in resistance (MICs for ZK796 with no plasmid, pUCyhiUV, or pQE30emrKY are 3.13 µg/ml [doxorubicin], 3.13 µg/ml [erythromycin], 1.56 µg/ml [crystal violet], 6.25 µg/ml [rhodamine 6G], 3.13 µg/ml [benzalkonium], 25 µg/ml [SDS], and 156 µg/ml [deoxycholate]), indicating that YhiUV and EmrKY also require TolC for their function.

Conclusions. Numerous studies on the regulation of multidrug transporter gene expression have been performed with E. coli. For example, expression of the EmrAB multidrug pump (9) is controlled by EmrR, a MarR type of repressor protein (10). The transcription of the acrAB operon in E. coli is regulated by the repressor AcrR (11). Gel mobility shift assays and lacZ transcriptional fusion proteins suggested that the general stress-enhanced transcription of acrAB is mediated primarily by global regulatory pathways such as the mar regulon and that a major function of AcrR is that of a specific secondary modulator (11).

Our results suggest that phosphorylation of EvgA is required for modulation of MDR. Although it was reported that EvgA is phosphorylated by the EvgS sensor protein as determined by phosphotransfer analysis using radiolabeled ATP (21), EvgA also can be phosphorylated by acetylphosphate without EvgS (22). Recently, we have constructed an evgS-deficient strain of E. coli KAM3 and observed that overproduction of EvgA in this strain also causes MDR (data not shown). Thus, in cells overexpressing EvgA, it may be phosphorylated by an EvgS-independent process.

During recent years, it has been found that two-component systems regulate a number of bacterial drug resistance pathways. VncSR in Streptococcus pneumoniae (17) and VanSR in enterococci regulate vancomycin resistance (1). ArlSR in Staphylococcus aureus regulates the MDR pump NorA (2), and we identified EvgSA as the regulator of the MDR pump YhiUV in this study. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of a two-component system that directly regulates the expression of MDR transporters in gram-negative bacteria. These findings indicate that two-component system-controlled MDR might become a new threat for chemotherapy against bacterial pathogens in the near future.


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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
We thank George M. Church for plasmid pKO3, Hiroshi Nikaido for strain ZK796, and Tomofusa Tsuchiya for strain KAM3. We thank Eitan Bibi for critically reading the manuscript.

K. Nishino is supported by a research fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.


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FOOTNOTES
 
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki-shi, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. Phone: 81-6-6879-8545. Fax: 81-6-6879-8549. E-mail: akihito{at}sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp. Back


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