Tatsanee Chuchue. OHRR1-OHR is the primary protective system against organic hydroperoxides in Agrobacterium Tumefaciens. Doctoral Degree(Biotechnology). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
OHRR1-OHR is the primary protective system against organic hydroperoxides in Agrobacterium Tumefaciens
Abstract:
Organic hydroperoxide resistance gene, ohr, involves in conferring resistance to
organic hydroperoxide. The ohr gene is wildly distributed among diverse groups of
Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The goals of this study were to determine
the roles of Agrobacterium tumefaciens ohr and ohrR1 and their regulation. The ohr
mutant was sensitive to organic hydroperoxide (tBOOH and CuOOH) killing and had a
reduced capacity to metabolize organic hydroperoxides. These phenotypes could be
restored by a plasmid-borne ohr. The ohr gene is located next to, and is divergently
transcribed from, ohrR1, encoding a sensor and transcription regulator of organic
hydroperoxide stress. Inactivation of ohrR1 led to a small increase in the resistance level
to CuOOH. The expression analysis showed that transcription of both ohr and ohrR1
could be induced by exposure of cells to organic hydroperoxides and not to other
oxidants. This induction requires functional ohrR1. Furthermore, ohrR1 is autoregulated.
Promoter deletion analysis revealed that the ohr and ohrR1 promoters reside in the
region within 55 bp and 80 bp, respectively, of their transcription start site. The gel
mobility shift showed the specific binding of purified OhrR1 to ohr-ohrR1 promoter
region. Surprisingly, it was found that OhrR1 could bind to a half of OhrR box with a
lower affinity than to the complete box. DNase I footprinting of the promoter containing
DNA fragment and purified OhrR1, coupled with in vivo promoter deletions analysis,
confirmed that OhrR1 regulated both ohrR1 and ohr from a single OhrR binding box
located between the ohrR1 and ohr promoters. Physiologically, ohrR1-ohr genes are
both required for a novel cumene hydroperoxide adaptive response. Taken together, the
results of biochemical, gene expression-regulation characteristics and physiological
functions of both genes support the role of ohrR1-ohr as the primary gene system in
sensing and protecting A. tumefaciens from organic hydroperoxide stress.