Author:
Ji Xia,Yu Ruojing,Zhu Meilian,Zhang Cuilin,Zhou Libin,Cai Tianshu,Li Weiwei
Abstract
Abstract
Background
The dinucleotide alarmone diadenosine tetraphosphate (Ap4A), which is found in cells, has been shown to affect the survival of bacteria under stress.
Results
Here, we labeled Ap4A with biotin and incubated the labeled Ap4A with the total proteins extracted from kanamycin-treated Escherichia coli to identify the Ap4A binding protein in bacteria treated with kanamycin. Liquid chromatography‒mass spectrometry (LCMS) and bioinformatics were used to identify novel proteins that Ap4A interacts with that are involved in biofilm formation, quorum sensing, and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis pathways. Then, we used the apaH knockout strain of E. coli K12-MG1655, which had increased intracellular Ap4A, to demonstrate that Ap4A affected the expression of genes in these three pathways. We also found that the swarming motility of the apaH mutant strain was reduced compared with that of the wild-type strain, and under kanamycin treatment, the biofilm formation of the mutant strain decreased.
Conclusions
These results showed that Ap4A can reduce the survival rate of bacteria treated with kanamycin by regulating quorum sensing (QS). These effects can expand the application of kanamycin combinations in the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Funder
Foundation of Guangdong Educational Committee for Youths
Applied Basic Research Programs of Science and Technology Commission Foundation of Guangdong Province
Foundation of Guangdong Educational Committee for Characteristic Innovation
Modern Agriculture and Biology Key Construction Discipline
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Microbiology (medical),Microbiology