Negative Osmoregulation of the Salmonella ompS1 Porin Gene Independently of OmpR in an hns Background

AUTOR(ES)

Flores-Valdez, Mario Alberto

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

The ompS1 gene encodes a quiescent porin in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Typhimurium. By using random mariner transposon mutagenesis, mutations that caused derepression of ompS1 expression were isolated, one in S. enterica serovar Typhi and two in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium. All of them mapped in the hns gene in the region coding for the carboxy terminus of the H-NS nucleoid protein. The derepressed ompS1 expression was subject to negative regulation at high osmolarity, both in the presence and in the absence of OmpR. This observation was possible due to the fact that there are two promoters: P1, which is OmpR dependent, and P2, which does not require OmpR for activation (rather, OmpR represses P2). The sequences upstream from position −88, a region previously shown to be involved in the negative regulation of ompS1, can form a static bend, and the integrity of this region was required for function and binding of H-NS and for osmoregulation, as determined with gene reporter fusions of different lengths and with a 31-bp deletion mutant. This is consistent with the notion that this region determines a structure required for repression. Hence, ompS1 shares negative regulation by H-NS with other loci, such as the bgl operon and the ade gene.

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