机构:[1]Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China,中山大学附属第一医院[2]Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China大德路总院检验科大德路总院检验科广东省中医院
Indole works as an interspecies signal molecule to regulate multiple physiological activities, like antibiotic resistance, acid resistance, and virulence. However, the effect of indole on conjugation is unknown. Here, with Escherichia coli SM10 lambda pi as a donor strain that carries a chromosomally integrated conjugative RP4 plasmid, we explored the effect of indole on conjugation of a mobilizable pUCP24T plasmid imparting gentamycin resistance. The results showed that exogenous indole treatment inhibited conjugative transfer of pUCP24T from SM10 lambda pi to recipient strains, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and E. coli EC600. Furthermore, raising endogenous indole production through overexpression of TnaA, a tryptophanase, in SM10 lambda pi significantly inhibited both SM10 lambda pi-PAO1 and SM10 lambda pi-EC600 conjugation, whereas deficiency of tnaA reversed the phenotype. Subsequent mechanistic studies revealed that exogenous indole significantly inhibited the expression of mating pair formation gene (trbB) and the DNA transfer and replication gene (trfA), mainly due to the promotion of regulatory genes (korA and korB), and the result was confirmed in tnaA knockout and overexpression strains. Additionally, we found that both extracellular indole production and tnaA expression of SM10 lambda pi were downregulated by ciprofloxacin (CIP). Intriguingly, one-eighth minimum inhibitory concentration of CIP treatment clearly facilitated both SM10 lambda pi-PAO1 and SM10 lambda pi-EC600 conjugation, and indole inhibited CIP-induced conjugation frequency. These data suggest that indole may play a negative role in the process of CIP-induced conjugation. This is the first study to reveal the biological function of indole-inhibiting conjugation and its role in CIP-induced conjugation, which may be developed into a new way of controlling the spread of antibiotic resistance.
基金:
Natural Science Foundation
of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2019A1515011882), the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.
81772249, 81871703, and 81572058), and the Guangdong
Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Grant Nos.
YN2018QJ01, YN2019QJ03, and YN2019MJ01).
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Laboratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China,
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Xiong Rui,Liu Yuyang,Pu Jieying,et al.Indole Inhibits IncP-1 Conjugation System Mainly Through Promoting korA and korB Expression[J].FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY.2021,12:doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.628133.
APA:
Xiong, Rui,Liu, Yuyang,Pu, Jieying,Liu, Jianping,Zheng, Dexiang...&Huang, Bin.(2021).Indole Inhibits IncP-1 Conjugation System Mainly Through Promoting korA and korB Expression.FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY,12,
MLA:
Xiong, Rui,et al."Indole Inhibits IncP-1 Conjugation System Mainly Through Promoting korA and korB Expression".FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY 12.(2021)