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Some bacterial aconitases are bifunctional proteins that function in the citric acid cycle and act as posttranscriptional regulators in response to iron levels and oxidative stress. We explore the role of aconitase (AcnB) in Helicobacter pylori as a posttranscriptional regulator of the cell wall-modifying enzyme peptidoglycan deacetylase, PgdA. Under oxidative stress, PgdA is highly expressed and confers resistance to lysozyme in wild-type cells. PgdA protein expression as well as transcript abundance is significantly decreased in an acnB mutant. In the wild type, pgdA mRNA half-life was 13 min, whereas the half-life for the acnB strain was 7 min. Based on electrophoretic mobility shift assays and RNA footprinting, the H. pylori apo-AcnB binds to the 3'-untranslated region of the pgdA RNA transcript. Some of the protected bases (from footprinting) were localized in proposed stem-loop structures. AcnB-pgdA transcript binding was abolished by the addition of iron. The acnB strain is more susceptible to lysozyme-mediated killing and was attenuated in its ability to colonize mice. The results support a model whereby apo-AcnB directly interacts with the pgdA transcript to enhance stability and increase deacetylase enzyme expression, which impacts in vivo survival.

Aconitase-Mediated Posttranscriptional Regulation of Helicobacter pylori Peptidoglycan Deacetylase