Inactivation of TCA cycle enhances Staphylococcus aureus persister cell formation in stationary phase

Scientific Reports
Ying WangHanne Ingmer

Abstract

Persister cells constitute a small subpopulation of bacteria that display remarkably high antibiotic tolerance and for pathogens such as Staphylococcus aureus are suspected as culprits of chronic and recurrent infections. Persisters formed during exponential growth are characterized by low ATP levels but less is known of cells in stationary phase. By enrichment from a transposon mutant library in S. aureus we identified mutants that in this growth phase displayed enhanced persister cell formation. We found that inactivation of either sucA or sucB, encoding the subunits of the α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase of the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle), increased survival to lethal concentrations of ciprofloxacin by 10-100 fold as did inactivation of other TCA cycle genes or atpA encoding a subunit of the F1F0 ATPase. In S. aureus, TCA cycle activity and gene expression are de-repressed in stationary phase but single cells with low expression may be prone to form persisters. While ATP levels were not consistently affected in high persister mutants they commonly displayed reduced membrane potential, and persistence was enhanced by a protein motive force inhibitor. Our results show that persister cell formation in stationary phase do...Continue Reading

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May 6, 2020·Nature Communications·Frédéric PeyrussonFrançoise Van Bambeke
Nov 27, 2020·Frontiers in Microbiology·Mara BaldryHanne Ingmer
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Feb 3, 2021·Infection and Immunity·Sarah E RoweBrian P Conlon
Jun 25, 2021·Molecular Microbiology·Thomas M SteinerWolfgang Eisenreich

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