UMMS Affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2018-05-02
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins | Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Microbiology
Abstract
There is increasing evidence that phenotypically drug-resistant bacteria may be important determinants of antibiotic treatment failure. Using high-throughput imaging, we defined distinct subpopulations of mycobacterial cells that exhibit heritable but semi-stable drug resistance. These subpopulations have distinct transcriptional signatures and growth characteristics at both bulk and single-cell levels, which are also heritable and semi-stable. We find that the mycobacterial histone-like protein HupB is required for the formation of these subpopulations. Using proteomic approaches, we further demonstrate that HupB is posttranslationally modified by lysine acetylation and lysine methylation. Mutation of a single posttranslational modification site specifically abolishes the formation of one of the drug-resistant subpopulations of cells, providing the first evidence in prokaryotes that posttranslational modification of a bacterial nucleoid-associated protein may epigenetically regulate cell state.
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DOI of Published Version
10.1126/sciadv.aao1478
Source
Sci Adv. 2018 May 2;4(5):eaao1478. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao1478. eCollection 2018 May.. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Science advances
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PubMed ID
29732401
Repository Citation
Sakatos, Alexandra; Babunovic, Gregory H.; Chase, Michael R.; Dills, Alexander; Leszyk, John D.; Rosebrock, Tracy; Bryson, Bryan; and Fortune, Sarah M., "Posttranslational modification of a histone-like protein regulates phenotypic resistance to isoniazid in mycobacteria" (2018). Open Access Articles. 3474.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3474
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