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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2008, p. 1658-1670, Vol. 190, No. 5
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01649-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator LeuO Controls Expression of Several Genes in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi{triangledown} ,{dagger}

I. Hernández-Lucas,1,{ddagger} A. L. Gallego-Hernández,1,{ddagger} S. Encarnación,2 M. Fernández-Mora,1 A. G. Martínez-Batallar,2 H. Salgado,2 R. Oropeza,1 and E. Calva1*

Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México,1 Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México2

Received 11 October 2007/ Accepted 11 December 2007

LeuO is a LysR-type transcriptional regulator that has been implicated in the bacterial stringent response and in the virulence of Salmonella. A genomic analysis with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi revealed that LeuO is a positive regulator of OmpS1, OmpS2, AssT, and STY3070. In contrast, LeuO down-regulated the expression of OmpX, Tpx, and STY1978. Transcriptional fusions supported the positive and negative LeuO regulation. Expression of ompS1, assT, and STY3070 was induced in an hns mutant, consistent with the notion that H-NS represses these genes; transcriptional activity was lower for tpx and STY1978 in an hns background, suggesting that this global regulatory protein has a positive effect. In contrast, ompS2 and ompX expression appeared to be H-NS independent. LeuO specifically bound to the 5' intergenic regions of ompS2, assT, STY3070, ompX, and tpx, while it was not observed to bind to the promoter region of STY1978, suggesting that LeuO regulates in direct and indirect ways. In this work, a novel set of genes belonging to the LeuO regulon are described; interestingly, these genes are involved in a variety of biological processes, suggesting that LeuO is a global regulator in Salmonella.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México. Phone: (52) (777) 329-1645. Fax: (52) (777) 313-8673. E-mail: ecalva{at}ibt.unam.mx

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 21 December 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

{ddagger} I.H.-L. and A.L.G.-H. contributed equally to this work.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2008, p. 1658-1670, Vol. 190, No. 5
0021-9193/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.01649-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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