Publication: Regulation by SoxR of mfsA, which encodes a major facilitator protein involved in paraquat resistance in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
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2015-04-27
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19326203
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PLoS ONE. Vol.10, No.4 (2015)
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Kriangsuk Srijaruskul, Nisanart Charoenlap, Poommaree Namchaiw, Sorayut Chattrakarn, Suparat Giengkam, Skorn Mongkolsuk, Paiboon Vattanaviboon Regulation by SoxR of mfsA, which encodes a major facilitator protein involved in paraquat resistance in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. PLoS ONE. Vol.10, No.4 (2015). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123699 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/35172
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Regulation by SoxR of mfsA, which encodes a major facilitator protein involved in paraquat resistance in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
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© 2015 Srijaruskul et al. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia MfsA (Smlt1083) is an efflux pump in the major facilitator superfamily (MFS). Deletion of mfsA renders the strain more susceptible to paraquat, but no alteration in the susceptibility levels of other oxidants is observed. The expression of mfsA is inducible upon challenge with redox cycling/superoxide-generating drug (paraquat, menadione and plumbagin) treatments and is directly regulated by SoxR, which is a transcription regulator and sensor of superoxide-generating agents. Analysis of mfsA expression patterns in wild-type and a soxR mutant suggests that oxidized SoxR functions as a transcription activator of the gene. soxR (smlt1084) is located in a head-to-head fashion with mfsA, and these genes share the -10 motif of their promoter sequences. Purified SoxR specifically binds to the putative mfsA promoter motifs that contain a region that is highly homologous to the consensus SoxR binding site, and mutation of the SoxR binding site abolishes binding of purified SoxR protein. The SoxR box is located between the putative -35 and -10 promoter motifs of mfsA; and this position is typical for a promoter in which SoxR acts as a transcriptional activator. At the soxR promoter, the SoxR binding site covers the transcription start site of the soxR transcript; thus, binding of SoxR auto-represses its own transcription. Taken together, our results reveal for the first time that mfsA is a novel member of the SoxR regulon and that SoxR binds and directly regulates its expression.