Streptococcus pneumoniae
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PROVIDER: PRJNA238822 | ENA |
REPOSITORIES: ENA
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| SRR1171940.fastq.gz | Fastqsanger.gz | |||
| SRR1171941.fastq.gz | Fastqsanger.gz | |||
| SRR1171942.fastq.gz | Fastqsanger.gz | |||
| SRR1171943.fastq.gz | Fastqsanger.gz | |||
| SRR1171934.fastq.gz | Fastqsanger.gz |
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Project description:Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a leading human pathogen that can cause serious localized and invasive diseases. Pneumococci can undergo a spontaneous and reversible phase variation that is reflected in colony opacity, which allows the population to adapt to different host environments. Generally, transparent variants are adapted for nasopharyngeal colonization whereas opaque variants are associated with invasive disease. In recent work, colony phase variation was shown to occur by means of recombination events to generate multiple alleles of the hsdS targeting domain of a DNA methylase complex, which mediates epigenetic changes in gene expression. A panel of isogenic strains were created in the well-studied S. pneumoniae TIGR4 background that are “locked” in the transparent (n=4) or opaque (n=2) colony phenotype. The strains had significant differences in colony size which were stable over multiple passages in vitro and in vivo. While there were no significant differences in adherence for the phase-locked mutant strains to immortalized epithelial cells, biofilm formation and viability was reduced for opaque variants in static assays. Nasopharyngeal colonization was stable for all strains, but the mortality rate differed between them. Transcript profiling by RNA-seq analyses revealed that expression of certain virulence factors were increased in a phase-specific manner. As epigenetic regulation of phase variation (often referred to as phasevarion) is emerging as a common theme for mucosal pathogens, these studies serve as a model for future studies of host-pathogen interactions.
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Project description:RNases perform indispensable functions in regulating gene expression in many bacterial pathogens by processing and/or degrading RNAs. Despite the pivotal role of RNases in regulating bacterial virulence factors, the functions of RNases have not yet been studied in the major human respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus). Here, we sought to determine the impact of two conserved RNases, the endoribonuclease RNase Y and exoribonuclease polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase), on the physiology and virulence of S. pneumoniae serotype 2 strain D39. We report that RNase Y and PNPase are essential for pneumococcal pathogenesis as both deletion mutants showed strong attenuation of virulence in murine models of invasive pneumonia. Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis revealed that nearly 200 mRNA transcripts were significantly up-regulated, whereas the abundance of several pneumococcal sRNAs, including the Ccn (CiaR Controlled Noncoding RNA) sRNAs, were altered in the ∆rny mutant relative to the wild-type strain. Additionally, lack of RNase Y resulted in pleiotropic phenotypes that included defects in pneumococcal cell morphology and growth in vitro. In contrast, Dpnp mutants showed no growth defect in vitro, but differentially expressed a total of 40 transcripts including the tryptophan biosynthesis operon genes and numerous 5’-cis-acting regulatory RNAs, a majority of which were previously shown to impact pneumococcal disease progression in mice using the serotype 4 strain TIGR4. Altogether our data suggest that RNase Y exerts a global impact on pneumococcal physiology, while PNPase-mediates virulence phenotypes, likely through sRNA regulation.
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Project description:Invasive pneumococcal disease is preceded by asymptomatic colonization of the human nasopharynx by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Progression from colonization to invasion is a watershed in the host-pathogen interaction, and exposes the pneumococcus to markedly different microenvironments. This in turn, requires alterations in gene expression profile to adapt to the new niche. One apparent adaptive mechanism is reversible phase variation between “transparent” and “opaque” colony opacity phenotypes. Transparent phase variants colonize the nasopharynx more efficiently than opaque variants of the same strain, while opaque variants exhibit higher systemic virulence. Previous studies have reported quantitative differences in surface components such as the capsule, teichoic acid and certain surface proteins between the two phenotypes, but the underlying regulatory mechanism is not understood. In the present study, we found no differences in expression of key surface proteins between opaque and transparent variants of S. pneumoniae strain D39, but opaque cells produced five-fold more capsular polysaccharide. Subsequent microarray and real-time RT-PCR analysis showed no differences in capsule gene expression, but several genes involved in uridine monophosphate (UMP) biosynthesis were up-regulated in the opaque phenotype. This correlated with significant increases in the intracellular concentrations of both UMP and UDP-glucose, which are essential precursors for capsule biosynthesis. Our data suggest a novel mechanism for pneumococcal capsule regulation, in which rate-limiting precursor pathways are modulated rather than the capsule biosynthetic genes themselves. Keywords: Phase variants
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Project description:Post-transcriptional gene regulation often involves RNA-binding proteins that modulate mRNA translation and/or stability either directly through protein-RNA interactions or indirectly by facilitating the annealing of small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs). The human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae D39 (pneumococcus) does not encode in its genome any homologs to RNA-binding proteins known to be involved in promoting sRNA stability and function, such as Hfq or ProQ, even though it contains genes for at least 112 sRNAs. Instead, the pneumococcal genome contains genes for at least six S1 RNA-binding domain proteins, which includes ribosomal protein S1 (rpsA), polynucleotide phosphorylase (pnpA), RNase R (rnr), and three proteins of unknown function. Here, we characterize the function of one of these conserved, yet uncharacterized S1-domain proteins, SPD_1366, which we have renamed CvfD (Conserved virulence factor D), since loss of this protein results in a attenuation of virulence in a murine pneumonia model. We also report that deletion of cvfD impacts expression of 144 transcripts including the pst1 operon, encoding the phosphate transport system 1 in S. pneumoniae. We further show that CvfD post-transcriptionally regulates the PhoU2 master regulator of the pneumococcal dual phosphate transport system by binding phoU2 mRNA and impacting translation. CvfD not only controls expression of phosphate transporter genes, but also functions as a global regulator impacting cold sensitivity and the expression of sRNAs and genes involved in diverse cellular functions, including manganese uptake and zinc efflux. Together, our data suggest that CvfD exerts a broad impact on pneumococcal physiology and virulence via post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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