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Staphylococcus aureus (SA) causes nosocomial infections including life threatening sepsis by multi-resistant strains (MRSA). It has the ability to form biofilms to protect it from the host immune system and from anti staphylococcal drugs. Biofilm and planctonic life style is regulated by a complex Quorum-Sensing (QS) system with agr as a central regulator. To study biofilm formation and QS mechanisms in SA a Boolean network was build (94 nodes, 184 edges) including two different component systems such as agr, sae and arl. Important proteins such as Sar, Rot and SigB were included as further nodes in the model. System analysis showed there are only two stable states biofilm forming versus planctonic with clearly different subnetworks turned on. Validation according to gene expression data confirmed this. Network consistency was tested first according to previous knowledge and literature. Furthermore, the predicted node activity of different in silico knock-out strains agreed well with corresponding micro array experiments and data sets. Additional validation included the expression of further nodes (Northern blots) and biofilm production compared in different knock-out strains in biofilm adherence assays. The model faithfully reproduces the behaviour of QS signalling mutants. The integrated model allows also prediction of various other network mutations and is supported by experimental data from different strains. Furthermore, the well connected hub proteins elucidate how integration of different inputs is achieved by the QS network. For in silico as well as in vitro experiments it was found that the sae-locus is also a central modulator of biofilm production. Sae knock-out strains showed stronger biofilms. Wild type phenotype was rescued by sae complementation. To elucidate the way in which sae takes influence on biofilm formation the network was used and Venn-diagrams were made, revealing nodes regulated by sae and changed in biofilms. In these Venn-diagrams nucleases and extracellular proteins were found to be promising nodes. The network revealed DNAse to be of great importance. Therefore qualitatively the DNAse amount, produced by different SA mutants was measured, it was tried to dissolve biofilms with according amounts of DNAse and the concentration of nucleic acids, proteins and polysaccharides were measured in biofilms of different SA mutants.
With its thorough validation the network model provides a powerful tool to study QS and biofilm formation in SA, including successful predictions for different knock-out mutant behaviour, QS signalling and biofilm formation. This includes implications for the behaviour of MRSA strains and mutants. Key regulatory mutation combinations (agr–, sae–, sae–/agr–, sigB+, sigB+/sae–) were directly tested in the model but also in experiments. High connectivity was a good guide to identify master regulators, whose detailed behaviour was studied both in vitro and in the model. Together, both lines of evidence support in particular a refined regulatory role for sae and agr with involvement in biofilm repression and/or SA dissemination. With examination of the composition of different mutant biofilms as well as with the examination of the reaction cascade that connects sae to the biofilm forming ability of SA and also by postulating that nucleases might play an important role in that, first steps were taken in proving and explaining regulatory links leading from sae to biofilms. Furthermore differences in biofilms of different mutant SA strains were found leading us in perspective towards a new understanding of biofilms including knowledge how to better regulate, fight and use its different properties.
Die Kontrolle der monoallelen Expression, antigenen Variation und Entwicklung in Trypanosoma brucei
(2013)
Die ausschließliche Expression von nur einem Gen aus einer großen Genfamilie ist ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen, das als monoallele Expression bezeichnet wird. In dem Blutparasiten Trypanosoma brucei stellt die Expression eines einzigen variablen Oberflächenglykoproteins (VSG) aus einem Repertoire von über 1000 verschiedenen Genen die Grundlage für die Immunevasion dar. Durch einen periodischen Wechsel der VSG Expression (Antigene Variation) bleibt der Parasit vom Immunsystem des Wirtes unerkannt. Die VSG Gene werden aus telomerischen Blutstromform Expressionsstellen (BES) transkribiert, von denen nur eine zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt aktiv ist. Die Kontrolle der monoallelen VSG Expression ist somit einer der wichtigsten Virulenzfaktoren von T. brucei.
Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, die Vorgänge eines transkriptionellen Wechsels zwischen zwei BESs zu beschreiben. Das Ausschalten des aktiven VSGs durch RNA-Interferenz hatte zuvor gezeigt, dass dies nicht zu einer erhöhten Wechselrate führt. Es wurde daher untersucht, welche Auswirkungen das Anschalten einer zweiten BES auf die monoallele Expression hat. Da es bisher keine Möglichkeit gibt, eine inaktive BES gezielt zu aktivieren, wurde ein artifizielles System gewählt, das die gezielte induzierbare Expression eines Gens ermöglicht. Die BESs unterscheiden sich in der Anzahl und Zusammensetzung der Expressionsstellen-assoziierte-Gene (ESAGs), jedoch besitzt jede BES ein telomernahes VSG. Somit wird, bei einer BES Aktivierung, in jedem Fall ein neues VSG exprimiert. Durch die induzierbare Expression eines zweiten VSGs wurde so das Anschalten einer neuen BES simuliert. Mithilfe dieses Systems konnte gezeigt werden, dass das VSG selbst für die Kontrolle der monoallelen Expression verantwortlich ist. Die ektopische Überexpression eines zweiten VSGs führte zu einer graduellen Inaktivierung der BES. Infolge dessen verlangsamte sich der Zellzyklus und die Zellen verblieben bis zu fünf Tage in einem ruhenden Zustand. Genauere Analysen dieses Zustandes zeigten, dass es sich hierbei um ein bisher unbekanntes, reversibles Zwischenstadium zwischen proliferierenden sogenannten Long Slender und arretierten sogenannten Short Stumpy Formen handelt. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit führten zu einem neuen Modell, das die Kontrolle der monoallelen VSG Expression mit der Entwicklung der Trypanosomen mechanistisch verbindet.