Functional characterization of Fur from the strict anaerobe <i>Clostridioides difficile</i> provides insight into its redox-driven regulatory capacity
Fernández-Otal, Ángela ; Guío, Jorge ; Sarasa-Buisan, Cristina ; Peleato, M. Luisa ; Fillat, María F. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Lanas, Ángel (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Bes, M. Teresa (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Resumen: Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea associated with antibiotic therapy. The ability of this anaerobic pathogen to acquire enough iron to proliferate under iron limitation conditions imposed by the host largely determines its pathogenicity. However, since high intracellular iron catalyzes formation of deleterious reactive hydroxyl radicals, iron uptake is tightly regulated at the transcriptional level by the ferric uptake regulator Fur. Several studies relate lacking a functional fur gene in C. difficile cells to higher oxidative stress sensitivity, colonization defect and less toxigenicity, although Fur does not appear to directly regulate either oxidative stress response genes or pathogenesis genes. In this work, we report the functional characterization of C. difficile Fur and describe an additional oxidation sensing Fur‐mediated mechanism independent of iron, which affects Fur DNA‐binding. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays, we show that Fur binding to the promoters of fur, feoA and fldX genes, identified as iron and Fur‐regulated genes in vivo, is specific and does not require co‐regulator metal under reducing conditions. Fur treatment with H2O2 produces dose‐dependent soluble high molecular weight species unable to bind to target promoters. Moreover, Fur oligomers are dithiotreitol sensitive, highlighting the importance of some interchain disulfide bond(s) for Fur oligomerization, and hence for activity. Additionally, the physiological electron transport chain NADPH‐thioredoxin reductase/thioredoxin from Escherichia coli reduces inactive oligomerized C. difficile Fur that recovers activity. In conjunction with available transcriptomic data, these results suggest a previously underappreciated complexity in the control of some members of the Fur regulon that is based on Fur redox properties and might be fundamental for the adaptive response of C. difficile during infection.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1111/febs.17156
Año: 2024
Publicado en: FEBS Journal 291, 16 (2024), 3604-3627
ISSN: 1742-464X
Factor impacto JCR: 4.2 (2024)
Categ. JCR: BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY rank: 99 / 319 = 0.31 (2024) - Q2 - T1
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.212 - Biochemistry (Q1) - Molecular Biology (Q1) - Cell Biology (Q1)
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Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E35-23R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/FIS/PI11-02578
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/FPU2018-03619
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/BFU2016-77671-P
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Area Medicina (Dpto. Medicina, Psiqu. y Derm.)
Área (Departamento): Área Bioquímica y Biolog.Mole. (Dpto. Bioq.Biolog.Mol. Celular)
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Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1111/febs.17156
Año: 2024
Publicado en: FEBS Journal 291, 16 (2024), 3604-3627
ISSN: 1742-464X
Factor impacto JCR: 4.2 (2024)
Categ. JCR: BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY rank: 99 / 319 = 0.31 (2024) - Q2 - T1
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 2.212 - Biochemistry (Q1) - Molecular Biology (Q1) - Cell Biology (Q1)
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/B18
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E35-23R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/FIS/PI11-02578
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/FPU2018-03619
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/BFU2016-77671-P
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Area Medicina (Dpto. Medicina, Psiqu. y Derm.)
Área (Departamento): Área Bioquímica y Biolog.Mole. (Dpto. Bioq.Biolog.Mol. Celular)
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