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The oxidative stress response and virulence of pathogenic Leptospira are controlled by the interplay of two peroxide stress regulators

Antony T. Vincent
Odile Sismeiro
Frédéric J. Veyrier

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Pathogenic Leptospira are the causative agents of leptospirosis, the most widespread zoonotic infectious disease. Leptospirosis is a potentially severe and life-threatening emerging disease with highest burden in sub-tropical areas and impoverish populations. Mechanisms allowing pathogenic Leptospira to survive inside a host and induce acute leptospirosis are not fully understood. The ability to resist deadly oxidants produced by the host during infection is pivotal for Leptospira virulence. We have previously shown that genes encoding defenses against oxidants in L. interrogans are repressed by PerRA (encoded by LIMLP_10155), a peroxide stress regulator of the Fur family. In this study, we describe the identification and characterization of another putative PerR-like regulator (LIMLP_05620) in L. interrogans . Protein sequence and phylogenetic analyses indicated that LIMLP_05620 displayed all the canonical PerR amino acid residues and is restricted to pathogenic Leptospira clades. We therefore named this PerR-like regulator PerRB. In L. interrogans , the PerRB regulon is distinct from that of PerRA. While a perRA mutant had a greater tolerance to peroxide, inactivating perRB led to a higher tolerance to superoxide, suggesting that these two regulators have a distinct function in the adaptation of L. interrogans to oxidative stress. The concomitant inactivation of perRA and perRB resulted in a higher tolerance to both peroxide and superoxide and, unlike the single mutants, to the loss of Leptospira virulence. Interestingly, this correlated with major changes in gene and non-coding RNA expression, only observed in the double perRAperRB mutant. Notably, several virulence-associated genes ( clpB , ligA/B , and lvrAB ) were repressed. By obtaining the first double mutant in a pathogenic Leptospira strain, our study has uncovered for the first time the interplay of two PerRs, not only in the adaptation of Leptospira to oxidative stress, but also in their virulence and pathogenicity, most likely through the transcriptional control of a complex regulatory network.
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Crispin Zavala-Alvarado, Antony T. Vincent, Odile Sismeiro, Rachel Legendre, Hugo Varet, et al.. The oxidative stress response and virulence of pathogenic Leptospira are controlled by the interplay of two peroxide stress regulators. 2021. ⟨pasteur-03250968⟩
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