Enterococcal peptide sex pheromones: Synthesis and control of biological activity

Josephine R. Chandler; Gary M Dunny

doi:10.1016/j.peptides.2003.10.020

Enterococcal peptide sex pheromones: Synthesis and control of biological activity

Josephine R. Chandler, Gary M Dunny

Microbiology

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Abstract

The enterococcal pheromone-inducible plasmids such as pCF10 represent a unique class of mobile genetic elements whose transfer functions are induced by peptide sex pheromones. These pheromones are excreted by potential recipient cells and detected by plasmid-containing donor cells at the cell surface, where the pheromone is imported and signals induction of the plasmid transfer system. Pheromone is processed from a chromosomally encoded lipoprotein and excreted by both the donor and recipient cells, but a carefully controlled detection system prevents a response to self-pheromone while still allowing an extremely sensitive response to exogenous pheromone.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1377-1388
Number of pages	12
Journal	Peptides
Volume	25
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2003.10.020
State	Published - Sep 2004

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Funding Information:
The authors thank all of the members of the Dunny laboratory for providing much of the data on which this paper is based. This research is supported by NIH grant no. GM49530. J.R.C. is a trainee funded by the NIH MinnCResT training grant no. T32 DE07288.

Keywords

Enterococcus faecalis
Pheromone
Pheromone-inducible conjugative plasmid
PrgY
PrgZ
iCF10
pAD1
pCF10
pPD1

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Enterococcal peptide sex pheromones: Synthesis and control of biological activity

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