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@article{Thabet:2023:10.1038/s41467-023-42413-0,
author = {Thabet, MA and Penadés, JR and Haag, AF},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-023-42413-0},
journal = {Nature Communications},
title = {The ClpX protease is essential for inactivating the CI master repressor and completing prophage induction in Staphylococcus aureus},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42413-0},
volume = {14},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Bacteriophages (phages) are the most abundant biological entities on Earth, exerting a significant influence on the dissemination of bacterial virulence, pathogenicity, and antimicrobial resistance. Temperate phages integrate into the bacterial chromosome in a dormant state through intricate regulatory mechanisms. These mechanisms repress lytic genes while facilitating the expression of integrase and the CI master repressor. Upon bacterial SOS response activation, the CI repressor undergoes auto-cleavage, producing two fragments with the N-terminal domain (NTD) retaining significant DNA-binding ability. The process of relieving CI NTD repression, essential for prophage induction, remains unknown. Here we show a specific interaction between the ClpX protease and CI NTD repressor fragment of phages 11 and 80α in Staphylococcus aureus. This interaction is necessary and sufficient for prophage activation after SOS-mediated CI auto-cleavage, defining the final stage in the prophage induction cascade. Our findings unveil unexpected roles of bacterial protease ClpX in phage biology.
AU - Thabet,MA
AU - Penadés,JR
AU - Haag,AF
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-42413-0
PY - 2023///
SN - 2041-1723
TI - The ClpX protease is essential for inactivating the CI master repressor and completing prophage induction in Staphylococcus aureus
T2 - Nature Communications
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42413-0
UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37852980
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42413-0
VL - 14
ER -