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2. An extracellular serine protease produced by Vibrio vulnificus NCIMB 2137, a metalloprotease-gene negative strain isolated from a diseased eel
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Miyoshi, Shin-ichi, Wang, Jiyou, Katoh, Keizo, Senoh, Mitsutoshi, Mizuno, Tamaki, and Maehara, Yoko
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- 2012
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3. Regulation of Vibrio mimicus metalloprotease (VMP) production by the quorum-sensing master regulatory protein, LuxR
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Abdel‐Sattar, El‐Shaymaa, Miyoshi, Shin‐ichi, and Elgaml, Abdelaziz
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DNA, Bacterial ,Binding Sites ,Base Sequence ,LuxR protein ,food and beverages ,Quorum Sensing ,Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,Repressor Proteins ,Metalloprotease ,Quorum-sensing ,Metalloproteases ,Trans-Activators ,bacteria ,Vibrio mimicus ,Promoter Regions, Genetic - Abstract
Vibrio mimicus is an estuarine bacterium, while it can cause severe diarrhea, wound infection, and otitis media in humans. This pathogen secretes a relatively important toxin named V. mimicus metalloprotease (VMP). In this study, we clarified regulation of the VMP production according to the quorum-sensing master regulatory protein named LuxR. First, the full length of luxR gene, encoding LuxR, was detected in V. mimicus strain E-37, an environmental isolate. Next, the putative consensus binding sequence of LuxR protein could be detected in the upstream (promoter) region of VMP encoding gene, vmp. Finally, the effect of disruption of luxR gene on the expression of vmp and production of VMP was evaluated. Namely, the expression of vmp was significantly diminished by luxR disruption and the production of VMP was severely altered. Taken together, here we report that VMP production is under the positive regulation of the quorum-sensing master regulatory protein, LuxR.
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- 2016
4. Modulation of Vibrio mimicus hemolysin through limited proteolysis by an endogenous metalloprotease.
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Mizuno, Tamaki, Sultan, Syed Z., Kaneko, Yoshimi, Yoshimura, Tomonaga, Maehara, Yoko, Nakao, Hiroshi, Tsuchiya, Tomofusa, Shinoda, Sumio, and Miyoshi, Shin-ichi
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METALLOPROTEINASES ,HEMOLYSIS & hemolysins ,PROTEOLYSIS ,FOOD poisoning ,VIBRIO - Abstract
Vibrio mimicus is a causative agent of human gastroenteritis and food poisoning, and this species produces an enterotoxic hemolysin ( V. mimicus hemolysin) as a virulence determinant. Vibrio mimicus hemolysin is secreted as an 80 kDa precursor, which is later converted to the 66 kDa mature toxin through removal of an N-terminal propeptide via cleavage of the Arg151–Ser152 bond. In this article, we investigate the role of the endogenous metalloprotease ( V. mimicus protease) in the maturation of V. mimicus hemolysin. In vitro experiments using purified proteins showed that, although it activated the precursor at the early stage via cleavage of the Asn157–Val158 bond, V. mimicus protease finally converted the activated and physiologically maturated toxin to a 51 kDa protein through removal of the C-terminal polypeptide. This 51 kDa derivative was unable to lyse erythrocytes because of its inability to bind to the erythrocyte membrane. Vibrio mimicus protease-negative strains were found to produce high levels of V. mimicus hemolysin at the logarithmic phase of bacterial growth and maintained high hemolytic activity even at the stationary phase. These findings indicate that, although it is not directly related to toxin maturation in vivo, V. mimicus protease can modulate the activity of V. mimicus hemolysin and/or its precursor through limited proteolysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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5. Vibrio vulnificus infection and metalloprotease.
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Miyoshi, Shin-ichi
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VIBRIO vulnificus ,VIBRIO ,INFECTION ,SEPSIS ,CIRRHOSIS of the liver - Abstract
Vibrio vulnificus is ubiquitous in aquatic environments; however, it occasionally causes serious and often fatal infections in humans. These include invasive septicemia contracted through consumption of raw seafood, as well as wound infections acquired through contact with brackish or marine waters. In most cases of septicemia, the patients have underlying disease(s), such as liver dysfunction or alcoholic cirrhosis, and the secondary skin lesions including cellulitis, edema and hemorrhagic bulla appear on the limbs. Although V. Vul produces various virulent factors including polysaccharide capsule, type IV pili, hemolysin and proteolytic enzymes, the 45-kDa metalloprotease may be a causative factor of the skin lesions, because the purified protease enhances vascular permeability through generation of chemical mediators and also induces serious hemorrhagic damage through digestion of the vascular basement membrane. As well as other bacteria, V. Vul can regulate the protease production through the quorum-sensing system depending on bacterial cell density. However, this system operates efficiently at 25°C, but not at 37°C. Therefore, V. vulnificus may produce sufficient amounts of the protease only in the interstitial tissue of the limbs, in which temperature is lower than the internal temperature of the human body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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6. GROWTH PHASE-DEPENDENT PRODUCTION OF A TOXIC METALLOPROTEASE BY VIBRIO VULNIFICUS.
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Miyoshi, Shin-Ichi, Sultan, Syed Zafar, Yasuno, Yumi, and Shinoda, Sumio
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VIBRIO vulnificus ,BACTERIA ,PATHOGENIC microorganisms ,MICROBIAL virulence ,SEPSIS ,METALLOPROTEINASES - Abstract
Vibrio vulnificus, a ubiquitous estuarine bacterium, is divided into two groups based on the virulence potential. Group 1 is a causative agent of human fatal septicemia, which is characterized by edematous and hemorrhagic secondary skin lesions on the limbs. This human pathogen secretes a toxic metalloprotease as an important virulence determinant. The protease can evoke the skin damage through enhancement of the vascular permeability and destruction of the capillaries. Group 2 is an etiological agent of epizooticus in the cultured eels. Significant levels of metalloprotease as well as autoinducer, a well-known signal molecule of cell-density dependent regulatory system for production of virulence determinants, were found to be secreted by both the groups at early stationary phase but not middle logarithmic phase when the bacteria were cultivated at 25°C. Expression of the protease gene also was found to be increased several times at the stationary phase. Therefore, the autoinducer molecules that had accumulated might have accelerated the expression of the protease gene. In contrast, when cultivated at 37°C, far less amounts of the protease and autoinducer were produced even at the stationary phase. Most patients suffering from V. vulnificus septicemia have underlying diseases causing elevation of the serum iron level. When incubated in human serum supplemented with ferric chloride at 37°C, only Group 1 V. vulnificus showed steady bacterial multiplication and protease production but secretion of significant level of autoinducer could not be detected. Hence, the protease production by Group 1 V. vulnificus in human serum containing ferric ion is also dependent on the bacterial growth; however, protease production in this condition does not require the accumulation of the autoinducer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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7. Regulation system for protease production in Vibrio vulnificus
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Kawase, Tomoka, Miyoshi, Shin-ichi, Sultan, Zafar, and Shinoda, Sumio
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SEAFOOD , *PROTEINASES , *FISHERY products , *PROTEOLYTIC enzymes - Abstract
Vibrio vulnificus is a causative agent of serious food-borne diseases in humans related to consumption of raw seafoods. This human pathogen secretes a metalloprotease (VVP) that evokes enhancement of the vascular permeability and disruption of the capillaries. Production of microbial proteases is generally induced at early stationary phase of its growth. This cell density dependent regulation of VVP production in V. vulnificus known to be the quorum-sensing. When V. vulnificus was cultivated in Luria–Bertani (LB) medium, accumulation of the autoinducer, the signal molecule operating the quorum-sensing system, was detected. Moreover, expression of the vvp gene encoding VVP was found to be closely related with expression of the luxS gene that encode the synthase of the autoinducer precursor (luxS). These findings may indicate VVP production is controlled by the quorum-sensing system in LB medium. Futhermore, this system functioned more effectively at 26 °C than at 37 °C. When incubated at 37 °C in human serum supplemented with ferric chloride, production of VVP and expression of vvp increased in proportion to the concentration of ferric ion; whereas, expression of luxS was not increased. This suggests that VVP production in human serum containing ferric ion may be regulated mainly by the system other than the quorum-sensing system. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2004
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8. High growing ability of Vibrio vulnificus biotype 1 is essential for production of a toxic metalloprotease causing systemic diseases in humans
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Watanabe, Hirofumi, Miyoshi, Shin-ichi, Kawase, Tomoka, Tomochika, Ken-ichi, and Shinoda, Sumio
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WOUNDS & injuries , *INFECTION , *PROTEOLYTIC enzymes , *PATHOGENIC microorganisms - Abstract
Vibrio vulnificus biotype 1, a causative agent of fatal septicemia or wound infection in humans, is known to produce a toxic metalloprotease as an important virulence determinant. V. vulnificus biotype 2 (serovar E), a primary eel pathogen, was found to elaborate an extracellular metalloprotease that was indistinguishable from that of biotype 1. The potential of V. vulnificus biotype 1 for production of the metalloprotease was compared with biotype 2 and other human non-pathogenic Vibrio species (Vibrio anguillarum and Vibrio proteolyticus). When cultivated at 25 °C in tryptone–yeast extract broth supplemented with 0.9% NaCl, all bacteria multiplied sufficiently and secreted significant amounts of the metalloprotease. However, at 37 °C with 0.9% NaCl, V. anguillarum neither grew nor produced the metalloprotease. In human serum, only V. vulnificus biotype 1 revealed a steady multiplication accompanied with production of the extracellular metalloprotease. This prominent ability of biotype 1 in growth and protease production may contribute to cause serious systemic diseases in humans. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2004
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9. Histamine-releasing reaction induced by the N-terminal domain of Vibrio vulnificus metalloprotease
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Miyoshi, Shin-ichi, Kawata, Koji, Hosokawa, Masayoshi, Tomochika, Ken-ichi, and Shinoda, Sumio
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METALLOPROTEINASES , *HISTAMINE - Abstract
A zinc metalloprotease secreted by Vibrio vulnificus, an opportunistic human pathogen causing septicemia and wound infection, stimulates exocytotic histamine release from rat mast cells. This protease consists of two functional domains: the N-terminal domain that catalyzes proteolytic reaction and the C-terminal domain that promotes the association with a protein substrate or cell membrane. Like the intact protease, the N-terminal domain alone also induced histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. However, the reaction induced was apparently weak and went on more slowly. The nickel-substituted protease or its N-terminal domain, each of which has the reduced proteolytic activity due to decreased affinity to a substrate, showed much less histamine-releasing activity. When injected into the rat dorsal skin, the N-terminal domain also evoked enhancement of the hypodermic vascular permeability, while the activity was comparable to that of the protease. Taken together, the protease may stimulate histamine release through the action of the catalytic center of the N-terminal domain on the target substance(s) on the mast cell membrane. The C-terminal domain may support the in vitro action of the N-terminal domain by coordination of the association of the protease with the membrane, but it may not modulate the in vivo action. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2003
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