Identification of a differentially expressed oligopeptide binding protein (oppA2) in Streptococcus uberis by representational difference analysis of cDNA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5210-5219

  Taylor, D L ^a   Ward, P N ^b   Rapier, C D ^b   Leigh, J A ^b   Bowler, L D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOPTERIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OLIGOPEPTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN OPPA2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTATION; MASTITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPOPROTEINS; MASTITIS, BOVINE; MILK; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS UBERIS;

EID: 0042389576     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.17.5210-5219.2003     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Alloing, G., P. de Philip, and J. P. Claverys. 1994. Three highly homologous membrane-bound lipoproteins participate in oligopeptide transport by the Ami system of the gram-positive Streptococcus pneumoniae. J. Mol. Biol. 241:44-58.
2. Alloing, G., M. C. Trombe, and J. P. Claverys. 1990. The ami locus of the gram-positive bacterium Streptococcuspneumoniae is similar to binding protein-dependent transport operons of gram-negative bacteria. Mol. Microbiol. 4:633-644.
3. Altschul, S. F., W. Gish, W. Miller, E. W. Myers, and D. J. Lipman. 1990. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410.
4. Aston, J. 1975. Amino acids in milk. Their determination by gas-liquid chromatography and their variation due to mastitic infection. Aust. J. Dairy Technol. 30:55-59.
5. Bowler, L. D., M. Hubank, and B. G. Spratt. 1999. Representational difference analysis of cDNA for the detection of differential gene expression in bacteria: development using a model of iron-regulated gene expression in Neisseria meningitidis. Microbiology 145:3529-3537.
6. Caparon, M. G., and J. R. Scott. 1987. Identification of a gene that regulates expression of M protein, the major virulence determinant of group A streptococci. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:8677-8681.
7. Chanter, N., C. L. Ward, N. C. Talbot, J. A. Flanagan, M. Binns, S. B. Houghton, K. C. Smith, and J. A. Mumford. 1999. Recombinant hyaluronate associated protein as a protective immunogen against Streptococcus equi and Streptococcus zooepidemicus challenge in mice. Microb. Pathog. 27:133-143.
8. Charbonnel, P., M. Lamarque, J. C. Piard, C. Gilbert, V. Juillard, and D. Atlan. 2003. Diversity of oligopeptide transport specificity in Lactococcus lactis species. A tool to unravel the role of OppA in uptake specificity. J. Biol. Chem. 278:14832-14840.
9. Cundell, D. R., B. J. Pearce, J. Sandros, A. M. Naughton, and H. R. Masure. 1995. Peptide permeases from Streptococcuspneumoniae affect adherence to eucaryotic cells. Infect. Immun. 63:2493-2498.
10. Detmers, F. J., F. C. Lanfermeijer, R. Abele, R. W. Jack, R. Tampe, W. N. Konings, and B. Poolman. 2000. Combinatorial peptide libraries reveal the ligand-binding mechanism of the oligopeptide receptor OppA of Lactococcus lactis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:12487-12492.
11. Fenno, J. C., M. Tamura, P. M. Hannam, G. W. Wong, R. A. Chan, and B. C. McBride. 2000. Identification of a Treponema denticola OppA homologue that binds host proteins present in the subgingival environment. Infect. Immun. 68:1884-1892.
12. Finch, J. M., A. Winter, A. W. Walton, and J. A. Leigh. 1997. Further studies on the efficacy of a live vaccine against mastitis caused by Streptococcus uberis. Vaccine 15:1138-1143.
13. Garault, P., D. Le Bars, C. Besset, and V. Monnet. 2002. Three oligopeptide-binding proteins are involved in the oligopeptide transport of Streptococcus thermophilus. J. Biol. Chem. 277:32-39.
14. Gominet, M., L. Slamti, N. Gilois, M. Rose, and D. Lereclus. 2001. Oligopeptide permease is required for expression of the Bacillus thuringiensis plcR regulon and for virulence. Mol. Microbiol. 40:963-975.
15. Hall, L. M., B. Duke, and G. Urwin. 1995. An approach to the identification of the pathogens of bacterial meningitis by the polymerase chain reaction. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 14:1090-1094.
16. Hubank, M., and D. G. Schatz. 1994. Identifying differences in mRNA expression by representational difference analysis of cDNA. Nucleic Acids Res. 22:5640-5648.
17. Jenkinson, H. F., R. A. Baker, and G. W. Tannock. 1996. A binding-lipoprotein-dependent oligopeptide transport system in Streptococcus gordonii essential for uptake of hexa- and heptapeptides. J. Bacteriol. 178:68-77.
18. Jiang, M., P. R. MacLachlan, L. A. Babiuk, A. J. Bolton, and A. A. Potter. 1998. The abp locus of Streptococcus uberis encodes a protein homologous to polar amino acid and opine binding proteins of gram-negative bacteria. Can. J. Microbiol. 44:784-788.
19. Juillard, V., A. Guillot, D. Le Bars, and J. C. Gripon. 1998. Specificity of milk peptide utilization by Lactococcus lactis. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:1230-1236.
20. Juillard, V., D. Le Bars, E. R. Kunji, W. N. Konings, J. C. Gripon, and J. Richard. 1995. Oligopeptides are the main source of nitrogen for Lactococcus lactis during growth in milk. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:3024-3030.
21. Kitt, A. J., and J. A. Leigh. 1997. The auxotrophic nature of Streptococcus uberis. The acquisition of essential acids from plasmin derived casein peptides. Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 418:647-650.
22. Kossaibati, M. A., and R. J. Esslemont. 1997. The costs of production diseases in dairy herds in England. Vet. J. 154:41-51.
23. Kunji, E. R., A. Hagting, C. J. De Vries, V. Juillard, A. J. Haandrikman, B. Poolman, and W. N. Konings. 1995. Transport of beta-casein-derived peptides by the oligopeptide transport system is a crucial step in the proteolytic pathway of Lactococcus lactis. J. Biol. Chem. 270:1569-1574.
24. Lansing, M., S. Lellig, A. Mausolf, I. Martini, F. Crescenzi, M. O'Regan, and P. Prehm. 1993. Hyaluronate synthase: cloning and sequencing of the gene from Streptococcus sp. Biochem. J. 289:179-184.
25. Leigh, J. A., and T. R. Field. 1991. Killing of Streptococcus uberis by bovine neutrophils following growth in chemically defined media. Vet. Res. Commun. 15:1-6.
26. Leonard, B. A., A. Podbielski, P. J. Hedberg, and G. M. Dunny. 1996. Enterococcus faecalis pheromone binding protein, PrgZ, recruits a chromosomal oligopeptide permease system to import sex pheromone cCF10 for induction of conjugation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:260-264.
27. Magnuson, R., J. Solomon, and A. D. Grossman. 1994. Biochemical and genetic characterization of a competence pheromone from B. subtilis. Cell 77:207-216.
28. Mangan, J. A., K. M. Sole, D. A. Mitchison, and P. D. Butcher. 1997. An effective method of RNA extraction from bacteria refractory to disruption, including mycobacteria. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:675-676.
29. Maurelli, A. T., and P. J. Sansonetti. 1988. Identification of a chromosomal gene controlling temperature-regulated expression of Shigella virulence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:2820-2824.
30. Mekalanos, J. J. 1992. Environmental signals controlling expression of virulence determinants in bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 174:1-7.
31. Miller, J. F., J. J. Mekalanos, and S. Falkow. 1989. Coordinate regulation and sensory transduction in the control of bacterial virulence. Science 243:916-922.
32. Nakayama, J., K. Yoshida, H. Kobayashi, A. Isogai, D. B. Clewell, and A. Suzuki. 1995. Cloning and characterization of a region of Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pPD1 encoding pheromone inhibitor (ipd), pheromone sensitivity (traC), and pheromone shutdown (traB) genes. J. Bacteriol. 177:5567-5573.
33. Pearce, B. J., A. M. Naughton, and H. R. Masure. 1994. Peptide permeases modulate transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol. Microbiol. 12:881-892.
34. Peltoniemi, K., E. Vesanto, and A. Palva. 2002. Genetic characterization of an oligopeptide transport system from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus. Arch. Microbiol. 177:457-467.
35. Pfaffl, M. W. 2001. A new mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR. Nucleic Acids Res. 29:2002-2007.
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. Podbielski, A., and B. A. Leonard. 1998. The group A streptococcal dipeptide permease (Dpp) is involved in the uptake of essential amino acids and affects the expression of cysteine protease. Mol. Microbiol. 29:1323-1334.
38. Podbielski, A., B. Pohl, M. Woischnik, C. Korner, K. H. Schmidt, E. Rozdzinski, and B. A. Leonard. 1996. Molecular characterization of group A streptococcal (GAS) oligopeptide permease (opp) and its effect on cysteine protease production. Mol. Microbiol. 21:1087-1099.
39. Rozen, S., and H. Skaletsky. 2000. Primer3 on the WWW for general users and for biologist programmers. Methods Mol. Biol. 132:365-386.
40. Sagerstrom, C. G., B. I. Sun, and H. L. Sive. 1997. Subtractive cloning: past, present, and future. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 66:751-783.
41. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
42. Simpson, W. J., D. LaPenta, C. Chen, and P. P. Cleary. 1990. Coregulation of type 12 M protein and streptococcal C5a peptidase genes in group A streptococci: evidence for a virulence regulon controlled by the virR locus. J. Bacteriol. 172:696-700.
43. Slamti, L., and D. Lereclus. 2002. A cell-cell signaling peptide activates the PlcR virulence regulon in bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group. EMBO J. 21:4550-4559.
44. Slamti, L., and D. Lereclus. 2002. A cell-cell signaling peptide activates the PlcR virulence regulon in bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group. EMBO J. 21:4550-4559.
45. Smith, A. 2003. Identification of genes required for growth of Streptocococus uberis in milk. PhD. thesis. Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, United Kingdom.
46. Tam, R., and M. H. Saier, Jr. 1993. Structural, functional, and evolutionary relationships among extracellular solute-binding receptors of bacteria. Microbiol. Rev. 57:320-346.
47. Tame, J. R., E. J. Dodson, G. Murshudov, C. F. Higgins, and A. J. Wilkinson. 1995. The crystal structures of the oligopeptide-binding protein OppA complexed with tripeptide and tetrapeptide ligands. Structure 3:1395-1406.
48. Taylor, D. L., A. Bart, and L. D. Bowler. 2002. Representational difference analysis and genome comparisons, p. 103-120. Methods in microbiology: functional microbial genomics, vol. 33. Academic Press, New York, N.Y.
49. Thomas, L. H., W. Haider, A. W. Hill, and R. S. Cook. 1994. Pathologic findings of experimentally induced Streptococcus uberis infection in the mammary gland of cows. Am. J. Vet. Res. 55:1723-1728.
50. Ward, P. N., T. R. Field, W. G. Ditcham, E. Maguin, and J. A. Leigh. 2001. Identification and disruption of two discrete loci encoding hyaluronic acid capsule biosynthesis genes hasA, hasB, and hasC in Streptococcus uberis. Infect. Immun. 69:392-399.