Molecular genetic analysis of a group A Streptococcus operon encoding serum opacity factor and a novel fibronectin-binding protein, SfbX

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1208-1217

  Jeng, Arthur ^a   Sakota, Varja ^b   Li, Zhongya ^b   Datta, Vivekananda ^a   Beall, Bernard ^b   Nizet, Victor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; COAGULASE; DNA; FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN BINDING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA; SERUM OPACITY FACTOR PROTEIN; SFBX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SFBX GENE; SOF GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FIBRONECTINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 0037315055     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.4.1208-1217.2003     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Barnett, T. C., and J. R. Scott. 2002. Differential recognition of surface proteins in Streptococcus pyogenes by two sortase gene homologs. J. Bacteriol. 184:2181-2191.
2. Beall, B., G. Gherardi, M. Lovgren, R. R. Facklam, B. A. Forwick, and G. J. Tyrrell. 2000. emm and sof gene sequence variation in relation to serological typing of opacity-factor-positive group A streptococci. Microbiology 146:1195-1209.
3. Beres, S. B., G. L. Sylva, K. D. Barbian, B. Lei, J. S. Hoff, N. D. Mammarella, M. Y. Liu, J. C. Smoot, S. F. Porcella, L. D. Parkins, D. S. Campbell, T. M. Smith, J. K. McCormick, D. Y. Leung, P. M. Schlievert, and J. M. Musser. 2002. Genome sequence of a serotype M3 strain of group A Streptococcus: phage-encoded toxins, the high-virulence phenotype, and clone emergence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:10078-10083.
4. Bessen, D., K. F. Jones, and V. A. Fischetti. 1989. Evidence for two distinct classes of streptococcal M protein and their relationship to rheumatic fever. J. Exp. Med. 169:269-283.
5. Bessen, D. E., C. M. Sotir, T. L. Readdy, and S. K. Hollingshead. 1996. Genetic correlates of throat and skin isolates of group A streptococci. J. Infect. Dis. 173:896-900.
6. Betschel, S. D., S. M. Borgia, N. L. Barg, D. E. Low, and J. C. De Azavedo. 1998. Reduced virulence of group A streptococcal Tn916 mutants that do not produce streptolysin S. Infect. Immun. 66:1671-1679.
7. Bisno, A. L., and D. L. Stevens. 1996. Streptococcal infections of skin and soft tissues. N. Engl. J. Med. 334:240-245.
8. Chaffin, D. O., and C. E. Rubens. 1998. Blue/white screening of recombinant plasmids in gram-positive bacteria by interruption of alkaline phosphatase gene (phoZ) expression. Gene 219:91-99.
9. Courtney, H. S., J. B. Dale, and D. L. Hasty. 2002. Mapping the fibrinogen-binding domain of serum opacity factor of group a streptococci. Curr. Microbiol. 44:236-240.
10. Courtney, H. S., D. L. Hasty, Y. Li, H. C. Chiang, J. L. Thacker, and J. B. Dale. 1999. Serum opacity factor is a major fibronectin-binding protein and a virulence determinant of M type 2 Streptococcuspyogenes. Mol. Microbiol. 32:89-98.
11. Ferretti, J. J., W. M. McShan, D. Ajdic, D. J. Savic, G. Savic, K. Lyon, C. Primeaux, S. Sezate, A. N. Suvorov, S. Kenton, H. S. Lai, S. P. Lin, Y. Qian, H. G. Jia, F. Z. Najar, Q. Ren, H. Zhu, L. Song, J. White, X. Yuan, S. W. Clifton, B. A. Roe, and R. McLaughlin. 2001. Complete genome sequence of an M1 strain of Streptococcus pyogenes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:4658-4663.
12. Framson, P. E., A. Nittayajarn, J. Merry, P. Youngman, and C. E. Rubens. 1997. New genetic techniques for group B streptococci: high-efficiency transformation, maintenance of temperature-sensitive pWV01 plasmids, and mutagenesis with Tn917. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:3539-3547.
13. Gillen, C. M., R. J. Towers, D. J. McMillan, A. Delvecchio, K. S. Sriprakash, B. Currie, B. Kreikemeyer, G. S. Chhatwal, and M. J. Walker. 2002. Immunological response mounted by Aboriginal Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia against Streptococcus pyogenes serum opacity factor. Microbiology 148:169-178.
14. Grant, S. G., J. Jessee, F. R. Bloom, and D. Hanahan. 1990. Differential plasmid rescue from transgenic mouse DNAs into Escherichia coli methylation-restriction mutants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87:4645-4649.
15. Hanski, E., and M. Caparon. 1992. Protein F, a fibronectin-binding protein, is an adhesin of the group A streptococcus Streptococcus pyogenes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 89:6172-6176.
16. Hollingshead, S. K., T. L. Readdy, D. L. Yung, and D. E. Bessen. 1993. Structural heterogeneity of the emm gene cluster in group A streptococci. Mol. Microbiol. 8:707-717.
17. Holo, H., and I. F. Nes. 1989. High-frequency transformation, by electroporation, of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris grown with glycine in osmotic stabilized media. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:3119-3123.
18. Humar, D., V. Datta, D. J. Bast, B. Beall, J. C. De Azavedo, and V. Nizet. 2002. Streptolysin S and necrotising infections produced by group G streptococcus. Lancet 359:124-129.
19. Johnson, D. R., and E. L. Kaplan. 1988. Microtechnique for serum opacity factor characterization of group A streptococci adaptable to the use of human sera. J. Clin. Microbiol. 26:2025-2030.
20. Kansal, R. G., A. McGeer, D. E. Low, A. Norrby-Teglund, and M. Kotb. 2000. Inverse relation between disease severity and expression of the streptococcal cysteine protease, SpeB, among clonal M1T1 isolates recovered from invasive group A streptococcal infection cases. Infect. Immun. 68:6362-6369.
21. Karlyshev, A. V., M. J. Pallen, and B. W. Wren. 2000. Single-primer PCR procedure for rapid identification of transposon insertion sites. BioTechniques 28:1078-1082.
22. Katerov, V., P. E. Lindgren, A. A. Totolian, and C. Schalen. 2000. Streptococcal opacity factor: a family of bifunctional proteins with lipoproteinase and fibronectin-binding activities. Curr. Microbiol. 40:149-156.
23. Kawabata, S., and S. Iwanaga. 1994. Structure and function of staphylothrombin. Semin. Thromb. Hemost. 20:345-350.
24. Kreikemeyer, B., D. R. Martin, and G. S. Chhatwal. 1999. SfbII protein, a fibronectin binding surface protein of group A streptococci, is a serum opacity factor with high serotype-specific apolipoproteinase activity. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 178:305-311.
25. Kreikemeyer, B., S. R. Talay, and G. S. Chhatwal. 1995. Characterization of a novel fibronectin-binding surface protein in group A streptococci. Mol. Microbiol. 17:137-145.
26. Kuipers, O. P., P. G. de Ruyter, M. Kleerebezem, and W. M. de Vos. 1998. Quorum sensing-controlled gene expression in lactic acid bacteria. J. Biotechnol. 64:15-21.
27. Lancefield, R. C. 1962. Current knowledge of the type specific M antigens of group A streptococci. J. Immunol. 89:307-313.
28. Lindgren, P. E., M. J. McGavin, C. Signas, B. Guss, S. Gurusiddappa, M. Hook, and M. Lindberg. 1993. Two different genes coding for fibronectin-binding proteins from Streptococcus dysgalactiae. The complete nucleotide sequences and characterization of the binding domains. Eur. J. Biochem. 214:819-827.
29. Lupas, A. 1996. Prediction and analysis of coiled-coil structures. Methods Enzymol. 266:513-525.
30. Majeed, H. A., A. M. Yousof, J. Rotta, H. Havlickpva, G. Bahar, and K. Bahbahani. 1992. Group A streptococcal strains in Kuwait: a nine-year prospective study of prevalence and associations. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 11:295-303.
31. Maxted, W. R., J. P. Widdowson, C. A. Fraser, L. C. Ball, and D. C. Bassett. 1973. The use of the serum opacity reaction in the typing of group-A streptococci. J. Med. Microbiol. 6:83-90.
32. Mazmanian, S. K., H. Ton-That, and O. Schneewind. 2001. Sortase-catalysed anchoring of surface proteins to the cell wall of Staphylococcus aureus. Mol. Microbiol. 40:1049-1057.
33. McLandsborough, L. A., and P. P. Cleary. 1995. Insertional inactivation of virR in Streptococcus pyogenes M49 demonstrates that VirR functions as a positive regulator of ScpA, FcRA, OF, and M protein. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 128:45-51.
34. Molinari, G., and G. S. Chhatwal. 1999. Role played by the fibronectin-binding protein SfbI (protein F1) of Streptococcus pyogenes in bacterial internalization by epithelial cells. J. Infect. Dis. 179:1049-1050.
35. Pinney, A. M., J. P. Widdowson, and W. R. Maxted. 1977. Inhibition of beta-haemolysis by opacity factor in group A streptococci. J. Hyg. 78:355-362.
36. Podbielski, A., A. Kaufhold, and R. Lutticken. 1992. The vir-regulon of Streptococcus pyogenes: coordinate expression of important virulence factors. Immun. Infekt. 20:161-168.
37. Pritzlaff, C. A., J. C. Chang, S. P. Kuo, G. S. Tamura, C. E. Rubens, and V. Nizet. 2001. Genetic basis for the beta-haemolytic/cytolytic activity of group B Streptococcus. Mol. Microbiol. 39:236-247.
38. Rakonjac, J. V., J. C. Robbins, and V. A. Fischetti. 1995. DNA sequence of the serum opacity factor of group A streptococci: identification of a fibronectin-binding repeat domain. Infect. Immun. 63:622-631.
39. Rocha, C. L., and V. A. Fischetti. 1999. Identification and characterization of a novel fibronectin-binding protein on the surface of group A streptococci. Infect. Immun. 67:2720-2728.
40. Rose, R. E. 1988. The nucleotide sequence of pACYC184. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:355.
41. Rubens, C. E., and L. M. Heggen. 1988. Tn916 delta E: a Tn916 transposon derivative expressing erythromycin resistance. Plasmid 20:137-142.
42. Saravani, G. A., and D. R. Martin. 1990. Opacity factor from group A streptococci is an apoproteinase. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 56:35-39.
43. Sela, S., A. Aviv, A. Tovi, I. Burstein, M. G. Caparon, and E. Hanski. 1993. Protein F: an adhesin of Streptococcus pyogenes binds fibronectin via two distinct domains. Mol. Microbiol. 10:1049-1055.
44. Signas, C., G. Raucci, K. Jonsson, P. E. Lindgren, G. M. Anantharamaiah, M. Hook, and M. Lindberg. 1989. Nucleotide sequence of the gene for a fibronectin-binding protein from Staphylococcus aureus: use of this peptide sequence in the synthesis of biologically active peptides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:699-703.
45. Simon, D., and J. J. Ferretti. 1991. Electrotransformation of Streptococcus pyogenes with plasmid and linear DNA. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 66:219-224.
46. Simpson, W. A., D. L. Hasty, J. M. Mason, and E. H. Beachey. 1982. Fibronectin-mediated binding of group A streptococci to human polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Infect. Immun. 37:805-810.
47. Smoot, J. C., K. D. Barbian, J. J. Van Gompel, L. M. Smoot, M. S. Chaussee, G. L. Sylva, D. E. Sturdevant, S. M. Ricklefs, S. F. Porcella, L. D. Parkins, S. B. Beres, D. S. Campbell, T. M. Smith, Q. Zhang, V. Kapur, J. A. Daly, L. G. Veasy, and J. M. Musser. 2002. Genome sequence and comparative microarray analysis of serotype M18 group A Streptococcus strains associated with acute rheumatic fever outbreaks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:4668-4673.
48. Talay, S. R., P. Valentin-Weigand, P. G. Jerlstrom, K. N. Timmis, and G. S. Chhatwal. 1992. Fibronectin-binding protein of Streptococcus pyogenes: sequence of the binding domain involved in adherence of streptococci to epithelial cells. Infect. Immun. 60:3837-3844.
49. Wertman, K. F., A. R. Wyman, and D. Botstein. 1986. Host/vector interactions which affect the viability of recombinant phage lambda clones. Gene 49:253-262.
50. Woodcock, D. M., P. J. Crowther, J. Doherty, S. Jefferson, E. DeCruz, M. Noyer-Weidner, S. S. Smith, M. Z. Michael, and M. W. Graham. 1989. Quantitative evaluation of Escherichia coli host strains for tolerance to cytosine methylation in plasmid and phage recombinants. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:3469-3478.
51. Yang, K. D., N. H. Augustine, L. A. Gonzalez, J. F. Bohnsack, and H. R. Hill. 1988. Effects of fibronectin on the interaction of polymorphonuclear leukocytes with unopsonized and antibody-opsonized bacteria. J. Infect. Dis. 158:823-830.
52. Yother, J., and D. E. Briles. 1992. Structural properties and evolutionary relationships of PspA, a surface protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae, as revealed by sequence analysis. J. Bacteriol. 174:601-609.