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DarR, a TetR-like transcriptional factor, is a cyclic di-AMP-responsive repressor in Mycobacterium smegmatis.


ABSTRACT: Cyclic dinucleotides, including cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP), are known to be ubiquitous second messengers involved in bacterial signal transduction. However, no transcriptional regulator has been characterized as a c-di-AMP receptor/effector to date. In the present study, using a c-di-AMP/transcription factor binding screen, we identified Ms5346, a TetR family regulator in Mycobacterium smegmatis, as a c-di-AMP receptor in bacteria. Ms5346 could specifically bind c-di-AMP with K(d) of 2.3 ± 0.5 ?M. Using EMSA and DNase I footprinting assays, c-di-AMP was found to stimulate the DNA binding activity of Ms5346 and to enhance its ability to protect its target DNA sequence. A conserved 14-bp palindromic motif was identified as the DNA-binding site for Ms5346. Further, Ms5346 was found to negatively regulate expression of three target genes including Ms5347 (encoding a major facilitator family transporter), Ms5348 (encoding a medium chain fatty acyl-CoA ligase), and Ms5696 (encoding a cold shock protein, CspA). Ms5346 is the first cyclic di-AMP receptor regulator to be identified in bacteria, and we have designated it as DarR. Our findings enhance our understanding of the function and regulatory mechanism of the second messenger c-di-AMP in bacteria.

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3561532 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DarR, a TetR-like transcriptional factor, is a cyclic di-AMP-responsive repressor in Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Zhang Lei L   Li Weihui W   He Zheng-Guo ZG  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20121217 5


Cyclic dinucleotides, including cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP), are known to be ubiquitous second messengers involved in bacterial signal transduction. However, no transcriptional regulator has been characterized as a c-di-AMP receptor/effector to date. In the present study, using a c-di-AMP/transcription factor binding screen, we identified Ms5346, a TetR family regulator in Mycobacterium smegmatis, as a c-di-AMP receptor in bacteria. Ms5346 could specifically bind c-di-AMP with K(d) of 2.3 ± 0.5 μM.  ...[more]

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