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Regulator | Bacteria | Regulatory mechanism | Phenotype/response | References |
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LEE-encoded | | | | |
GrlA | C. rodentium; EPEC, EHEC | Binding LEE1 promoter | Activates LEE expression through Ler | Deng et al., 2004 [30] |
GrlR | C. rodentium; EPEC, EHEC | Binding to GrlA preventing it to bind LEE-1 promoter | Represses Ler/LEE expression | Deng et al., 2004 [30] |
Ler | A/E pathogens | Binding to LEE promoters | Activates expression of all LEE operons | Elliott et al., 2000 [13] |
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Non-LEE encoded | | | | |
BipA | EPEC, EHEC | Activates ler transcription | Activates LEE expression through Ler | Grant et al., 2003 [46] |
Cpx | EPEC, EHEC | Downregulates LEE4 and LEE-5 transcription | Represses LEE expression | Macritchie et al., 2008 [51] |
Fis | EPEC | Activates ler and LEE4 transcription | Activates LEE expression | Goldberg et al., 2001 [45] |
GadE | EHEC | | Represses LEE expression | Vanaja et al., 2009 [50] |
Hha | EHEC | Binding ler promoter | Represses Ler transcription |
Sharma and Zuerner, 2004 [48] |
H-NS | EPEC, EHEC | Binding to LEE1, LEE2, LEE3 and LEE5 regulatory region | Represses Ler expression | Bustamante et al., 2001 [28] |
IHF | EPEC | Binding upstream to ler promoter | Activates ler, orf3, orf5, and orf2 expression | Friedberg et al., 1999 [26] |
Pch/PerC 1, 2*, 3* | EHEC | Enhancing ler transcription | Activates LEE expression *represses LEE1 transcription | Iyoda and Watanabe, 2004, [44] Porter et al., 2005 [38] |
PerC | Typical EPEC | Activating LEE1 promoter | Activates LEE expression | Mellies et al., 1999 [11] |
RgdR | EHEC | Activating LEE1 transcription | Activates LEE expression | Flockhart et al., 2012 [47] |
RpoN | EHEC | Activating grlA, repressing gadE | Activates LEE expression | Riordan et al., 2010 [49] |
SspA | EHEC | Repressing H-NS expression | Activates LEE expression | Goldberg et al., 2001 [45] |
FusK/R | EHEC | Represses LEE1 | Represses LEE expression | Pacheco et al., 2012 [68] |
EutR | EHEC | Activates LEE1 | Activates LEE expression | Kendall et al., 2012 [69] |
LeuO | EHEC | Activates LEE1 | Activates LEE expression | Takao et al., 2014 [67] |
SdiA | EHEC | represses LEE1 | represses LEE expression | Sheng et al., 2013 [74] |
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Posttranscriptional | | | | |
ClpXP | EHEC | Regulating intracellular protein levels of GrlR and RpoS | Positively regulates LEE expression | Tomoyasu et al., 2005 [56]; Iyoda and Watanabe, 2005 [37] |
CsrA | EPEC | Binding to the leader segment of the sepL espADB mRNA and enhancing the steady-state transcript and protein levels | Positively regulates LEE expression | Bhatt et al., 2009 [55] |
DegP | EPEC | Protease and chaperone activity | Represses LEE expression | Macritchie et al., 2012 [52] |
DsrA | EHEC | Affecting the levels of functional transcripts of ler | Activates LEE expression | Laaberki et al., 2006 [58] |
Hfq | EHEC | Acting in ler and grlRA mRNA | Activates or represses LEE expression, depending on the strain background | Shakhnovich et al., 2009 [63]; Hansen and Kaper, 2009 [64]; Kendall et al., 2011 [65] |
RNaseE | EHEC | Splicing at the C-terminal end of sepL in the precursor sepL espADB transcript | Generates the sepL and espADB transcripts | Lodato and Kaper, 2009 [53] |
RpoS | EHEC | Binding to ler prom oter | Activates or represses LEE expression, depending on the strain background | Sperandio et al., 1999 [57]; Laaberki et al., 2006 [58]; Tomoyasu et al., 2005 [56]; Iyoda and Watanabe, 2005 [37] |
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Quorum sensing | | | | |
KdpE | EHEC | Binding to ler promoter | Activates LEE expression | Njoroge et al., 2013 [70] |
QseA | EPEC, EHEC | Binding to ler promoter | Activates LEE transcription | Sperandio et al., 2002 [80]; Sircili et al., 2004 [71] |
QseC | EHEC | Phosphorylation of KdpE RR | Activates LEE expression | Sperandio et al., 2002 [80] |
QseD | EHEC | Binding to ler promoter | Represses LEE transcription | Habdas et al., 2010 [83] |
QseE | EHEC | Inhibiting RcsB RR transcription | Represses LEE expression | Reading et al., 2007 [81]; Njoroge et al., 2013 [70] |
RcsB | EHEC O157:H7; EHEC Sakai | | Activates LEE transcription | Njoroge et al., 2013 [70] |
GlmY/GLMz | EHEC | | Regulates transcription of LEE4 and LEE5 | Gruber and Sperandio, 2014 [66] |
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