PMID- 24835993 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150821 LR - 20170913 IS - 2211-1247 (Electronic) VI - 7 IP - 5 DP - 2014 Jun 12 TI - The central metabolism regulator EIIAGlc switches Salmonella from growth arrest to acute virulence through activation of virulence factor secretion. PG - 1426-1433 LID - S2211-1247(14)00324-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.022 [doi] AB - The ability of Salmonella to cause disease depends on metabolic activities and virulence factors. Here, we show that a key metabolic protein, EIIAGlc, is absolutely essential for acute infection, but not for Salmonella survival, in a mouse typhoid fever model. Surprisingly, phosphorylation-dependent EIIAGlc functions, including carbohydrate transport and activation of adenylate cyclase for global regulation, do not explain this virulence phenotype. Instead, biochemical studies, in vitro secretion and translocation assays, and in vivo genetic epistasis experiments suggest that EIIAGlc binds to the type three secretion system 2 (TTSS-2) involved in systemic virulence, stabilizes its cytoplasmic part including the crucial TTSS-2 ATPase, and activates virulence factor secretion. This unexpected role of EIIAGlc reveals a striking direct link between central Salmonella metabolism and a crucial virulence mechanism. CI - Copyright (c) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Maze, Alain AU - Maze A AD - Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland; Synthetic Biology, UMR7242, ESBS, University of Strasbourg, 67412 Illkirch, France. FAU - Glatter, Timo AU - Glatter T AD - Proteomics Core Facility, Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. FAU - Bumann, Dirk AU - Bumann D AD - Focal Area Infection Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: dirk.bumann@unibas.ch. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140515 PL - United States TA - Cell Rep JT - Cell reports JID - 101573691 RN - 0 (Bacterial Proteins) RN - 0 (Virulence Factors) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System) RN - EC 4.6.1.1 (Adenylyl Cyclases) SB - IM MH - Adenylyl Cyclases/metabolism MH - Animals MH - Bacterial Proteins/genetics/*metabolism MH - Carbohydrate Metabolism MH - Epistasis, Genetic MH - Mice MH - Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System/genetics/*metabolism MH - Protein Binding MH - Salmonella typhimurium/growth & development/metabolism/*pathogenicity MH - Typhoid Fever/microbiology MH - Virulence Factors/genetics/*metabolism EDAT- 2014/05/20 06:00 MHDA- 2015/08/22 06:00 CRDT- 2014/05/20 06:00 PHST- 2013/08/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/03/07 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/04/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/05/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/05/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/08/22 06:00 [medline] AID - S2211-1247(14)00324-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.022 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Rep. 2014 Jun 12;7(5):1426-1433. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.04.022. Epub 2014 May 15.