Gene regulation by CnpB in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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ABSTRACT: We have previously reported that Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2837c (cnpB) encodes a phosphodiesterase that specifically cleaves cyclic di-AMP (c-di-AMP) into AMP. Deletion of cnpB results in significant virulence attenuation in a mouse pulmonary infection model, which is very likely due to the significantly elevated c-di-AMP levels as overexpression of Mtb diadenylate cyclase, disA, also leads to a similar outcome. An earlier study also demonstrated that CnpB functions similarly to E. coli oligoribonuclease (Orn) that hydrolyzes 2-5-mer nanoRNAs (short oligonucleotides of five residues or shorter in length) except that CnpB prefers 2-mer nanoRNA as a substrate. Additionally, a recent report showed that CnpB also degrades cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP), although we demonstrated that CnpB prefers c-di-AMP to c-di-GMP according to an in vitro enzymatic kinetics analysis In this study, we initially attempted to determine c-di-AMP-mediated gene regulation in Mtb by comparing the expression profiles between WT and ∆cnpB using RNA-Seq. We found that the CRISPR-Cas system of M. tuberculosis was highly upregulated by deletion of cnpB.
ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PROVIDER: GSE102816 | GEO | 2018/02/27
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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