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GENE REGULATION

Mapping the Transcription Start Points of the Staphylococcus aureus eap, emp, and vwb Promoters Reveals a Conserved Octanucleotide Sequence That Is Essential for Expression of These Genes

Niamh Harraghy, Dagmar Homerova, Mathias Herrmann, Jan Kormanec
Niamh Harraghy
1Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
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Dagmar Homerova
2Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84551 Bratislava, Slovakia
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Mathias Herrmann
1Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
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DOI: 10.1128/JB.01174-07
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ABSTRACT

Mapping the transcription start points of the eap, emp, and vwb promoters revealed a conserved octanucleotide sequence (COS). Deleting this sequence abolished the expression of eap, emp, and vwb. However, electrophoretic mobility shift assays gave no evidence that this sequence was a binding site for SarA or SaeR, known regulators of eap and emp.

The ability of Staphylococcus aureus to cause such diverse infections as endocarditis, pneumonia, skin infections, and biofilms is linked to its great repertoire of virulence factors, including adhesins, immunomodulatory molecules, and toxins (31). The S. aureus cell surface adhesins belong to one of two groups, the MSCRAMMs (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules), which include protein A, clumping factors A and B, and the fibronectin-binding proteins; and the SERAMs (secretable expanded repertoire adhesive molecules), which include the extracellular adherence protein (Eap), the extracellular matrix binding protein (Emp), and the extracellular fibrinogen-binding protein (Efb) (reviewed in references 5 and 7). The MSCRAMMs contain an LPXTG motif, which is involved in anchoring them to the staphylococcal cell surface (10, 32, 45), while the SERAMs lack this motif and may bind to the staphylococcal cell surface either covalently or via specific cell surface receptors (e.g., see references 11, 25, and 35). Together the MSCRAMMs and SERAMs facilitate the attachment of S. aureus to eukaryotic cells, platelets, extracellular matrix proteins, and inert surfaces (reviewed in reference 43) and may aid the survival and persistence of the staphylococci in the host due to their ability to interfere with the host's immune response (1, 4, 15, 22, 28, 30, 41, 44, 47).

Eap, Emp, and von Willebrand factor-binding protein (vWbp) are members of the SERAM family (5). While Eap is functionally well characterized (18), less is known about Emp and vWbp. Emp was described as an extracellular matrix binding protein, but additional functional roles have not yet been described (23). vWbp was identified during a screen for factors binding von Willebrand factor and was subsequently shown to be a coagulase (2, 3). Although the members of the SERAM family do not share significant sequence homology, they are recognized as sharing similar functional properties, such as being important in adhesion and modulation of the host immune response to staphylococcal infections (1-3, 5, 12, 16, 17, 23, 29, 30, 42, 44, 47). What is not yet known, however, is whether the regulation of the SERAMs at the molecular level is governed by a common mechanism or factor.

We became interested in studying the regulation of emp and vwb as these two genes, together with clfA, are located adjacent to each other (S. aureus strain COL open reading frames SACOL0856-SACOL0858), with 223 bp separating clfA from vwb and 353 bp separating vwb from emp. As ClfA is also an important S. aureus virulence factor, an interesting scenario would be the cotranscription of clfA, vwb, and emp. We mapped the transcription start points of emp and vwb in S. aureus strain Newman using primer extension analysis as described in reference 19 and found that both genes had their own promoter (Fig. 1A). These findings suggest that the genes are not cotranscribed and fit with the observations by us and others that the expression profiles of the three genes are different (3, 19, 34, 46). eap was also found to be transcribed from a single promoter (Fig. 1A). Putative promoter elements were identified by analysis of the region upstream of the transcription start point. All three promoters have a conserved −10 box (Fig. 1B), but homology to the consensus −35 box, TTGACA (20, 33, 36, 37), is less conserved, particularly in the vwb promoter. However, we have found a conserved octanucleotide sequence (COS), AGTTAATT, that is just 5′ to a putative −35 box in each promoter (Fig. 1B). Moreover, searching the S. aureus COL genome for this COS revealed a COS in the same position (i.e., immediately upstream of a putative −35 box) in the promoters of several important virulence factors (Table 1). A common feature of these virulence factors is that they are involved in modulating the immune response to S. aureus infections or antibiotic resistance (5, 9, 24, 48). Taken together, these data suggested that the COS could be important in the regulation of these genes.

To investigate the importance of the COS, we deleted it in the eap, emp, and vwb promoters in a two-step PCR. For deleting the COS in the emp promoter, two primer pairs were used. Primers emp-cs_R (5′-GTTTACTTCAATTATACTGAAAATTC-3′) and emp-cs_F (5′-GAATTTTCAGTATAATTGAAGTAAAC-3′) are complementary and lack the COS. Primers empPF1 and empPR1 were described previously (19). In the first PCR, primers empPF1 and emp-cs_F were used to amplify the region 5′ of the COS, while primers empPR1 and emp-cs_R amplified the region 3′ of the COS. In the second PCR, the two PCR products were joined together using primers empPF1 and empPR1. For deleting the COS in the vwb promoter, primers vwbPF1 (5′-TTCGAATTCAGATAGCGATTCGGACTC-3′) and vwbPR1 (5′-CCTAAGCTTTAATTTTCCCTAATTAAC-3′) amplified the entire promoter region, while primers vwb-cs_F (5′-CTACCTTTTTAAAATGTTGATGAA-3′) and vwb-cs_R (5′-ATTCATCAACATTTTAAAAAGGTAG-3′) were the complementary internal primers lacking the COS. The COS in the eap promoter was deleted by using a QuikChange mutagenesis kit (Stratagene) using primers QCF1 (5′-GATAATTTATTATTAATATTCCAAAAAATAGAGAAAGTCTGGC-3′) and QCR1 (5′-GCCAGACTTTCTCTATTTTTTGGAATATTAATAATAAATTATC-3′). All clones were sequenced to confirm the deletion of the COS and that no additional mutations had been introduced during cloning. The mutated promoters were cloned in their respective reporter gene vectors and transduced into strain Newman as described in reference 19. The expression of eap was analyzed by using a bioluminescence assay, while emp and vwb were analyzed by using a β-galactosidase assay. As shown in Fig. 2, deleting the COS in all three promoters severely repressed the expression of the reporter gene. To exclude the possibility that the deletion of the COS per se was responsible for the decrease in expression, we mutated the COS in the emp promoter, changing the sequence from AGTTAATT to TCATAATT (thereby changing the first three nucleotides of the COS while leaving the putative −35 box intact) by using a QuikChange mutagenesis kit (Stratagene) with primers QCF3_emp (5′-GACAACGTTTACTTCATCATAATTATTATACTGAAAATT CTGG-3′) and QCF3_emp-r (5′-CCAGAATTTTCAGTATAATAATTATGATGAAGTAAACGTTGTC-3′). As shown in Fig. 3, mutagenesis of the COS in the emp promoter resulted in a >50% decrease in emp expression but did not completely abrogate expression. This is likely due to the partial homology of the region to the COS. Taken together, our findings suggested that the COS could be the binding site for a regulator of eap, emp, and vwb.

In our previous study, we showed that sarA and RNAIII are involved in the regulation of eap and emp and that sae is essential for the expression of both genes (19). Six of the 11 genes in Table 1 are also regulated by sae (39). To investigate whether SaeR was binding to the eap, emp, and vwb promoters, SaeR was amplified from S. aureus Newman using primers saeR_F2 (5′-GGCATACATATGACCCACTTACTGATC-3′) and saeR_R3 (5′-CCCCCAAGCTTATCGGCTCCTTTCAAATTTATATCC-3′), cloned in the pET28a vector (Novagen), and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. The purified protein was subsequently assessed for binding to each promoter (see the supplemental material for the DNA sequences used) by using electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA). However, no binding of SaeR to the promoters was found (data not shown). As it is possible that SaeR needs to be phosphorylated to bind to its target promoters (13), we decided to purify the DNA binding domain of SaeR and looked for binding of this to the promoters using EMSA. However, we did not observe any binding of the SaeR DNA binding domain to the three promoters. These findings, as well as the observations that vwb is not regulated by sae (39) and that some sae-regulated genes, e.g., scn and chp (40), do not have a COS in their promoter, suggest that the COS is not the binding site for SaeR.

The COS is similar to a proposed binding site for SarA (AGTTAAG) (38). As SarA is known to be involved in the regulation of eap and emp, and SarA binding to different promoters has been demonstrated (6, 38), we investigated whether the COS could be a binding site for SarA. Although SarA binds to the eap, emp, and vwb promoters (N. Harraghy and J. Kormanec, unpublished data), deleting the COS did not have any effect on SarA binding to the three promoters (data not shown), indicating that the COS is not essential for SarA binding.

In summary, we have identified a COS in the eap, emp, and vwb promoters, as well as in the promoters of several genes recognized as being involved in modulation of the immune response to staphylococcal infection. The nature of the relationship between the SERAMs (5) and leukocidins is intriguing as it was recently shown that, in some strains, the expression of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin interferes with the regulation of the other major group of staphylococcal adhesins, the MSCRAMMs (27). Although it is unlikely that the leukocidins described here affect the regulation of the SERAMs, it is possible that they share a common regulator.

Our findings suggest that the COS has an important functional role because deletion of the COS in the eap, emp, and vwb promoters, as well as mutation of the COS in the emp promoter, affected the expression of the reporter gene. Although deleting the COS only partially disrupted the proposed −35 box (in the case of the eap promoter, there is only one mismatch in comparison with the original promoter) the deletion dramatically affected promoter activity. Moreover, the mutation of the COS in the emp promoter, which preserved the −35 box and maintained homology to the COS (only three bases were different), also affected promoter activity, although not to the same extent as when the COS was deleted. Thus, the changes in the expression of the reporter genes appear to be the result of modifications to the COS and the possible loss of a transcription factor-binding site. Our findings suggest that the COS is the binding site for an as-yet-unidentified regulator of eap, emp, and vwb that may function together with SaeR. The existence of such a factor was postulated by Goerke et al. (14) and is supported by work in our laboratory, as well as the recent findings of Kuroda et al. (26). Emerging data from microarray studies and ongoing work in our laboratory will help reveal such candidates.

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Mapping the transcription start points (TSP) of the emp, vwb, and eap promoters (modified from Harraghy et al. [19], with permission of the publisher). (A) The TSP of the vwb, emp, and eap promoters were mapped by primer extension analysis as described in reference 19. (B) Putative −35 and −10 elements were identified by visual inspection of the region upstream of the TSP and are shown in bold. The COS is highlighted.

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Effect of deleting the COS in the emp (A), vwb (B), and eap (C) promoters. A β-galactosidase assay was used for measuring emp and vwb promoter activity, and the bioluminescence assay described in Harraghy et al. (19) was used for measuring eap expression. The data shown are the means ± standard errors of the means of the results of at least two independent experiments. RLU, relative light units.

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Effect of mutating the COS in the emp promoter [emp(mut)]. The COS was changed from AGTTAATT to TCATAATT, and the effect on emp expression was assayed by using a β-galactosidase assay as described in reference 19. The data shown are the means ± standard errors of the means of the results of two independent experiments. RLU, relative light units.

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TABLE 1.

Mapping the COS in selected promoters relative to their putative −35 and −10 boxes

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank Sylvain Kerdudou and Markus Bischoff for critical reading of the manuscript and Karin Hilgert for excellent technical assistance.

The work in our laboratories is funded by grants from the University of Saarland HOMFOR to N.H., Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant He 1850/8-1 to M.H., and VEGA grant 2/6010/26 from the Slovak Academy of Sciences to J.K.

FOOTNOTES

    • Received 25 July 2007.
    • Accepted 19 October 2007.
  • Copyright © 2008 American Society for Microbiology

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Mapping the Transcription Start Points of the Staphylococcus aureus eap, emp, and vwb Promoters Reveals a Conserved Octanucleotide Sequence That Is Essential for Expression of These Genes
Niamh Harraghy, Dagmar Homerova, Mathias Herrmann, Jan Kormanec
Journal of Bacteriology Dec 2007, 190 (1) 447-451; DOI: 10.1128/JB.01174-07

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Mapping the Transcription Start Points of the Staphylococcus aureus eap, emp, and vwb Promoters Reveals a Conserved Octanucleotide Sequence That Is Essential for Expression of These Genes
Niamh Harraghy, Dagmar Homerova, Mathias Herrmann, Jan Kormanec
Journal of Bacteriology Dec 2007, 190 (1) 447-451; DOI: 10.1128/JB.01174-07
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