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Infection and Immunity, October 1998, p. 4640-4650, Vol. 66, No. 10
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Second Two-Component Regulatory System of Bordetella bronchiseptica Required for Bacterial Resistance to Oxidative Stress, Production of Acid Phosphatase, and In Vivo Persistence

Heidrun Jungnitz,1 Nicholas P. West,2 Mark J. Walker,2 Gursharan S. Chhatwal,1 and Carlos A. Guzmán1,*

Division of Microbiology, GBF-National Research Centre for Biotechnology, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany,1 and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia2

Received 30 April 1998/Returned for modification 18 June 1998/Accepted 21 July 1998

Random minitransposon mutagenesis was used to identify genes involved in the survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica within eukaryotic cells. One of the mutants which exhibited a reduced ability to survive intracellularly harbored a minitransposon insertion in a locus (ris) which displays a high degree of homology to two-component regulatory systems. This system exhibited less than 25% amino acid sequence homology to the only other two-component regulatory system described in Bordetella spp., the bvg locus. A risA'-'lacZ translational fusion was constructed and integrated into the chromosome of B. bronchiseptica. Determination of beta -galactosidase activity under different environmental conditions suggested that ris is regulated independently of bvg and is optimally expressed at 37°C, in the absence of Mg2+, and when bacteria are in the intracellular niche. This novel regulatory locus, present in all Bordetella spp., is required for the expression of acid phosphatase by B. bronchiseptica. Although catalase and superoxide dismutase production were unaffected, the ris mutant was more sensitive to oxidative stress than the wild-type strain. Complementation of bvg-positive and bvg-negative ris mutants with the intact ris operon incorporated as a single copy into the chromosome resulted in the reestablishment of the ability of the bacterium to produce acid phosphatase and to resist oxidative stress. Mouse colonization studies demonstrated that the ris mutant is cleared by the host much earlier than the wild-type strain, suggesting that ris-regulated products play a significant role in natural infections. The identification of a second two-component system in B. bronchiseptica highlights the complexity of the regulatory network needed for organisms with a life cycle requiring adaptation to both the external environment and a mammalian host.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Microbiology, GBF-National Research Centre for Biotechnology, Mascheroder Weg 1, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. Phone: 49-531-6181558. Fax: 49-531-6181411. E-mail: cag{at}gbf.de.

Infection and Immunity, October 1998, p. 4640-4650, Vol. 66, No. 10
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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