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J Bacteriol

Title:		"Cloning and characterization of a region of Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pPD1 encoding pheromone inhibitor (ipd), pheromone sensitivity (traC), and pheromone shutdown (traB) genes"
Author(s):		Nakayama J; Yoshida K; Kobayashi H; Isogai A; Clewell DB; Suzuki A;
Address:		"Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan"
Journal Title:		J Bacteriol
Year:		1995
Volume:		177
Issue:		19
Page Number:		5567 - 5573
DOI:		10.1128/jb.177.19.5567-5573.1995
ISSN/ISBN:		0021-9193 (Print) 1098-5530 (Electronic) 0021-9193 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Bacteriocin plasmid pPD1 in Enterococcus faecalis encodes a mating response to recipient-produced sex pheromone cPD1. Once a recipient acquires pPD1, transconjugants apparently shut off cPD1 activity in broth culture and no longer behave as recipients for pPD1. This event is performed by synthesis of the pheromone inhibitor iPD1 and also by repression of cPD1 production, the so-called 'pheromone shutdown.' A 5.4-kb EcoRV-HincII segment of pPD1, which expressed iPD1 in Escherichia coli, was sequenced and found to be organized as traC-traB-traA-ipd; each open reading frame is analogous to that found in other pheromone plasmids, pAD1 and pCF10, and thus is designated in accordance with the nomenclature in pAD1. The ipd gene encodes a peptide consisting of 21 amino acids, in which the C-terminal eight residues correspond to iPD1. The putative TraC product has a strong similarity to oligopeptide-binding proteins found in other bacterial species, as do pheromone-binding proteins of pCF10 and pAD1. A strain carrying traC-disrupted pPD1 required a concentration of cPD1 fourfold higher than that needed by the wild-type strain for induction of sexual aggregation. These results suggest that the TraC product contributes to pheromone sensitivity as a pheromone-binding protein. A strain transformed with traB-disrupted pPD1 produced a high level of cPD1 similar to that produced by plasmid-free recipients and underwent self-induction. Thus, the TraB product contributes to cPD1 shutdown"
Keywords:		"Amino Acid Sequence Bacterial Proteins/*genetics Base Sequence Cloning, Molecular Enterococcus faecalis/*genetics/metabolism *Fimbriae Proteins Genes, Bacterial/genetics Molecular Sequence Data Oligopeptides/biosynthesis/*genetics Pheromones/biosynthesis;"
Notes:		"MedlineNakayama, J Yoshida, K Kobayashi, H Isogai, A Clewell, D B Suzuki, A eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 1995/10/01 J Bacteriol. 1995 Oct; 177(19):5567-73. doi: 10.1128/jb.177.19.5567-5573.1995"