Postepy Biochem
December 2024
The gut microbiota is an essential component of the proper functioning of the human body, as gut microorganisms and their metabolites strongly influence the host’s metabolism and immune functions. They also contribute to the biosynthesis of vitamins, production of gut hormones, maintenance of intestinal barrier integrity, protection against pathogens, as well as digestion and absorption of nutrients. There is increasing emphasis on the relationship between disturbances in gut microbiota composition and the onset of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIron is both essential for and potentially toxic to bacteria, so the precise maintenance of iron homeostasis is necessary for their survival. Our previous study indicated that in the human enteropathogen , the regulator OmpR directly controls the transcription of the , and genes, encoding the ferric uptake repressor and two transporters of ferric siderophores, respectively. This study was undertaken to determine the significance of the RNA chaperone Hfq and the small RNAs OmrA and RyhB1 in the post-transcriptional control of the expression of these OmpR targets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the fact that tumor microenvironment (TME) and gene mutations are the main determinants of progression of the deadliest cancer in the world - lung cancer, their interrelations are not well understood. Digital pathology data provides a unique insight into the spatial composition of the TME. Various spatial metrics and machine learning approaches were proposed for prediction of either patient survival or gene mutations from this data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn a previous study, differential proteomic analysis was used to identify membrane proteins of the human enteropathogen , whose levels are influenced by OmpR, the transcriptional regulator in the two-component EnvZ/OmpR system. Interestingly, this analysis demonstrated that at 37 °C, OmpR negatively affects the level of over a dozen Ysc-Yop proteins, which constitute a type III secretion system (T3SS) that is essential for the pathogenicity of . Here, we focused our analysis on the role of OmpR in the expression and secretion of Yops (translocators and effectors).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we found that the loss of OmpR, the response regulator of the two-component EnvZ/OmpR system, increases the cellular level of Fur, the master regulator of iron homeostasis in . Furthermore, we demonstrated that transcription of the gene from the YeP promoter is subject to negative OmpR-dependent regulation. Four putative OmpR-binding sites (OBSs) were indicated by in silico analysis of the promoter region, and their removal affected OmpR-dependent expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFexhibits a dual lifestyle, existing as both a saprophyte and a pathogen colonizing different niches within a host organism. OmpR has been recognized as a regulator that controls the expression of genes involved in many different cellular processes and the virulence of pathogenic bacteria. Here, we have examined the influence of OmpR and varying temperature (26°C vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMachine learning algorithms hold the promise to effectively automate the analysis of histopathological images that are routinely generated in clinical practice. Any machine learning method used in the clinical diagnostic process has to be extremely accurate and, ideally, provide a measure of uncertainty for its predictions. Such accurate and reliable classifiers need enough labelled data for training, which requires time-consuming and costly manual annotation by pathologists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe show that strain Ye9 (bio-serotype 2/O:9) utilizes heme-containing molecules as an iron source. The Ye9 genome contains two multigenic clusters, -1 and -2, encoding putative heme receptors HemR1 and HemR2, that share 62% amino acid identity. Expression of these proteins in an mutant defective in heme biosynthesis allowed this strain to use hemin and hemoglobin as a source of porphyrin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOligogalacturonide (OGA)-specific porins of the KdgM family have previously been identified and characterized in enterobacterial plant pathogens. We found that deletion of the gene encoding response regulator OmpR causes the porin KdgM2 to become one of the most abundant proteins in the outer membrane of the human enteropathogen . Reporter gene fusion and real-time PCR analysis confirmed that the expression of is repressed by OmpR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnteropathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica is able to grow within or outside the mammalian host. Previous transcriptomic studies have indicated that the regulator OmpR plays a role in the expression of hundreds of genes in enterobacteria. Here, we have examined the impact of OmpR on the production of Y.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOmpR is a transcriptional regulator implicated in the control of various cellular processes and functions in Enterobacteriaceae. This study was undertaken to identify genes comprising the OmpR regulon in the human gastrointestinal pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica. Derivatives of an ompR-negative strain with random transposon insertions creating transcriptional fusions with the reporter gene lacZ were isolated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: One of the elements of treatment considering inflammatory bowel diseases is nutritional therapy. The duration of the above-mentioned depends on the prevalence of such symptoms as fever, bowel movements, length of the functioning gastrointestinal tract, stoma and intestinal fistula presence. Nutritional therapy is an essential element of successful treatment alongside pharmacological, surgical, and biological therapy, as well as other methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe EnvZ/OmpR two-component system constitutes a regulatory pathway involved in bacterial adaptive responses to environmental cues. Our previous findings indicated that the OmpR regulator in Yersinia enterocolitica O:9 positively regulates the expression of FlhDC, the master flagellar activator, which influences adhesion/invasion properties and biofilm formation. Here we show that a strain lacking OmpR grown at 37°C exhibits extremely high resistance to the bactericidal activity of normal human serum (NHS) compared with the wild-type strain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe environmental control of invasin (inv) expression in Yersinia enterocolitica is mediated by a regulatory network composed of negative and positive regulators of inv gene transcription. Previously, we demonstrated that OmpR, a response regulator of the two-component signal transduction pathway EnvZ/OmpR, negatively regulates inv gene expression in Y. enterocolitica O9 by direct interaction with the inv promoter region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRocz Panstw Zakl Hig
November 2011
The main purpose of this work was the analysis of the composition of fatty acids and cholesterol. The investigation was done among 143 students, with 3-day dietary records method. The research was carried out in the years 2007 and 2008.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo elucidate the physiological meaning of OmpR-dependent expression of invasin gene (inv) inhibition in Yersinia enterocolitica, the function of the EnvZ/OmpR regulatory pathway in osmoregulation of inv expression was analyzed in detail. The osmoregulation of inv expression was found to be a multifaceted process involving both OmpR-dependent and -independent mechanisms. Analysis of inv transcription in strains lacking OmpR or EnvZ proteins indicated that kinase EnvZ is not the only regulator of OmpR phosphorylation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe OmpR regulator positively influences flagella synthesis and negatively regulates invasin expression in Yersinia enterocolitica. To determine the physiological consequences of this inverse regulation, we analyzed the effect of the ompR mutation on the ability of Y. enterocolitica Ye9 (serotype O9, biotype 2) to adhere to and invade human epithelial HEp-2 cells and to form biofilms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntonie Van Leeuwenhoek
February 2011
Flagella and invasin play important roles during the early stages of infection by the enteric pathogen Yersinia enterocolitica. Our previous study demonstrated that OmpR negatively regulates invasin gene expression at the transcriptional level. The present study focused on the role of OmpR in the regulation of flagella expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo show the role of MalT protein in the regulation of mal genes, encoding proteins involved in transport and metabolism of maltose/ maltodextrins in Yersinia enterocolitica, we constructed a malT mutant which was characterized by a strong reduction in maltose transport and a loss of MBP protein. We also studied the influence of MalT activity on the production of Yop proteins in Y. enterocolitica and found that the level of these virulence factors is not changed in the malT mutant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobiology (Reading)
August 2007
Invasin, the major adhesion and invasion factor of Yersinia enterocolitica, is encoded by the inv gene, which is regulated by growth phase and in response to a variety of environmental conditions such as temperature, pH and osmolarity. So far, three proteins, RovA, H-NS and YmoA, have been identified as factors regulating the expression of the inv gene in enteropathogenic Yersinia. Here, data from inv' : : lacZYA chromosomal gene fusion studies are presented indicating that OmpR, the response regulator of the EnvZ/OmpR two-component system, acts to negatively regulate inv expression at the transcriptional level at 25 degrees C, and that high osmolarity enhances the inhibitory effect of this protein.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFYersinia enterocolitica is a human pathogen that causes gastroenteric infections. Various environmental signals control the expression of the virulence factors in pathogenic Y. enterocolitica strains.
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