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Redox-active antibiotics control gene expression and community behavior in divergent bacteria.


ABSTRACT: It is thought that bacteria excrete redox-active pigments as antibiotics to inhibit competitors. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the endogenous antibiotic pyocyanin activates SoxR, a transcription factor conserved in Proteo- and Actinobacteria. In Escherichia coli, SoxR regulates the superoxide stress response. Bioinformatic analysis coupled with gene expression studies in P. aeruginosa and Streptomyces coelicolor revealed that the majority of SoxR regulons in bacteria lack the genes required for stress responses, despite the fact that many of these organisms still produce redox-active small molecules, which indicates that redox-active pigments play a role independent of oxidative stress. These compounds had profound effects on the structural organization of colony biofilms in both P. aeruginosa and S. coelicolor, which shows that "secondary metabolites" play important conserved roles in gene expression and development.

SUBMITTER: Dietrich LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2745639 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Redox-active antibiotics control gene expression and community behavior in divergent bacteria.

Dietrich Lars E P LE   Teal Tracy K TK   Price-Whelan Alexa A   Newman Dianne K DK  

Science (New York, N.Y.) 20080801 5893


It is thought that bacteria excrete redox-active pigments as antibiotics to inhibit competitors. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the endogenous antibiotic pyocyanin activates SoxR, a transcription factor conserved in Proteo- and Actinobacteria. In Escherichia coli, SoxR regulates the superoxide stress response. Bioinformatic analysis coupled with gene expression studies in P. aeruginosa and Streptomyces coelicolor revealed that the majority of SoxR regulons in bacteria lack the genes required for str  ...[more]

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