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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5870
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-3-21
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most successful human pathogens, colonizing 2 billion individuals worldwide and causing invasive infections even in immunocompetent hosts. S. aureus can evade multiple components of host innate immunity, including the antimicrobial radical nitric oxide (NO.) produced by activated phagocytes. We show that S. aureus is capable of metabolically adapting to nitrosative stress by expressing an NO.-inducible L-lactate dehydrogenase (ldh1, SACOL0222) divergently transcribed from the NO.-detoxifying flavohemoglobin (hmp). L-Lactate production allows S. aureus to maintain redox homeostasis during nitrosative stress and is essential for virulence. NO.-inducible lactate dehydrogenase activity and NO. resistance distinguish S. aureus from the closely related commensal species S. epidermidis and S. saprophyticus.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1095-9203
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
319
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1672-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
A nitric oxide-inducible lactate dehydrogenase enables Staphylococcus aureus to resist innate immunity.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural