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The Staphylococcus aureus non-coding RNA IsrR regulates TCA cycle activity and virulence
Nucleic Acids Research ( IF 16.6 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-20 , DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1243 Gustavo Rios-Delgado, Aubrey K G McReynolds, Emma A Pagella, Javiera Norambuena, Paul Briaud, Vincent Zheng, Matthew J Munneke, Jisun Kim, Hugo Racine, Ronan K Carroll, Ehud Zelzion, Eric Skaar, Jeffrey L Bose, Dane Parker, David Lalaouna, Jeffrey M Boyd
Nucleic Acids Research ( IF 16.6 ) Pub Date : 2024-12-20 , DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae1243 Gustavo Rios-Delgado, Aubrey K G McReynolds, Emma A Pagella, Javiera Norambuena, Paul Briaud, Vincent Zheng, Matthew J Munneke, Jisun Kim, Hugo Racine, Ronan K Carroll, Ehud Zelzion, Eric Skaar, Jeffrey L Bose, Dane Parker, David Lalaouna, Jeffrey M Boyd
Staphylococcus aureus has evolved mechanisms to cope with low iron (Fe) availability in host tissues. Staphylococcus aureus uses the ferric uptake transcriptional regulator (Fur) to sense titers of cytosolic Fe. Upon Fe depletion, apo-Fur relieves transcriptional repression of genes utilized for Fe uptake. We demonstrate that an S. aureus Δfur mutant has decreased expression of acnA, which codes for the Fe-dependent enzyme aconitase. This prevents the Δfur mutant from growing with amino acids as sole carbon and energy sources. We used a suppressor screen to exploit this phenotype and determined that a mutation that decreases the transcription of isrR, which produces a regulatory RNA, increased acnA expression, thereby enabling growth. Directed mutation of bases predicted to facilitate the interaction between the acnA transcript and IsrR, decreased the ability of IsrR to control acnA expression in vivo and IsrR bound to the acnA transcript in vitro. IsrR also bound transcripts coding the alternate tricarboxylic acid cycle proteins sdhC, mqo, citZ and citM. Whole-cell metal analyses suggest that IsrR promotes Fe uptake and increases intracellular Fe not ligated by macromolecules. Lastly, we determined that Fur and IsrR promote infection using murine skin and acute pneumonia models.
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