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Virulence determinants involved in differential host niche adaptation of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are the only pathogenic species of the genus Neisseria. Although these two species are closely related, they specialized on survival in completely different environments within the human host-the nasopharynx in the case of N. meningitidis versus the urogenital tract in the case of N. gonorrhoeae. The genetic background of these differences has not yet been determined. Here, we present a comparison of all characterized transcriptional regulators in these species, delineating analogous functions and disclosing differential functional developments of these DNA-binding proteins with a special focus on the recently characterized regulator FarR and its contribution to divergent host niche adaptation in the two Neisseria spp. Furthermore, we summarize the present knowledge on two-partner secretion systems in meningococci, highlighting their overall expression among meningococcal strains in contrast to the complete absence in gonococci. Concluding, the decisive role of these two entirely different factors in host niche adaptation of the two human pathogenic Neisseria species is depicted, illuminating another piece of the puzzle to locate the molecular basis of their differences in preferred colonization sites and pathogenicity.

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