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Knödlseder N, Fábrega MJ, Santos-Moreno J, Manils J, Toloza L, Marín Vilar M, Fernández C, Broadbent K, Maruotti J, Lemenager H, Carolis C, Zouboulis CC, Soler C, Lood R, Brüggemann H, Güell M. Delivery of a sebum modulator by an engineered skin microbe in mice. Nat Biotechnol 2024:10.1038/s41587-023-02072-4. [PMID: 38195987 DOI: 10.1038/s41587-023-02072-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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Microorganisms can be equipped with synthetic genetic programs for the production of targeted therapeutic molecules. Cutibacterium acnes is the most abundant commensal of the human skin, making it an attractive chassis to create skin-delivered therapeutics. Here, we report the engineering of this bacterium to produce and secrete the therapeutic molecule neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, in vivo, for the modulation of cutaneous sebum production.
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- Nastassia Knödlseder
- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Cancer Group, Oncobell Program, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
- Serra Húnter Programme, Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy, School of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Protein Technologies Facility, Center of Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
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- Protein Technologies Facility, Center of Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hochschulklinik für Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie, Immunologisches Zentrum; Städtisches Klinikum Dessau; and Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane und Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften Brandenburg, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
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- Immunity, Inflammation and Cancer Group, Oncobell Program, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
- Immunology Unit, Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy, School of Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Infection Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
- ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.
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Ng JML, Ngeow YF, Saw SH, Ng HF, Zin T. Mutations in atpG2 may confer resistance to gentamicin in Listeria monocytogenes. J Med Microbiol 2022; 71. [PMID: 36748567 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.001618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Introduction Listeriosis, a foodborne infection caused by Listeria monocytogenes, could lead to febrile listerial gastroenteritis and a more invasive form which is often associated with a high mortality and hospitalisation rate. Gentamicin, used as an adjunct therapy with ampicillin, remains the treatment of choice for this life-threatening and invasive infection.Gap statement Nevertheless, there is little data on gentamicin resistance determinants in L. monocytogenes.Aim In this study, we selected and characterised B2b, a gentamicin-resistant mutant derived from L. monocytogenes ATCC 19115 to determine the target(s) of resistance in L. monocytogenes after exposure to gentamicin.Methodology Whole-genome sequencing was carried out to identify the mutation site(s) and possible mechanism(s) of resistance. The mutant was characterised using antimicrobial susceptibility testing and PCR. For biological verifications, complementation and allelic exchange mutagenesis were carried out.Results We found that the gentamicin resistance in B2b was caused by a 10 bp deletion in atpG2 which encodes a gamma subunit of the ATP synthase in L. monocytogenes. Using atpG2 PCR, various other mutations were identified in other gentamicin resistant mutants derived from ATCC 19115. In addition, the mutation from B2b, when introduced into L. ivanovii, also caused gentamicin resistance in this Listeria species.Conclusion Hence, atpG2 mutations appear to be important determinants of gentamicin resistance not only in L. monocytogenes but possibly also in other Listeria species.
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- Jamie May Ling Ng
- Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia.,Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, 31900 Kampar, Perak, Malaysia
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- Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Centre for Research on Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Jalan Sungai Long, Bandar Sungai Long, 43000 Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Tadala L, Langenbach D, Dannborg M, Cervantes-Rivera R, Sharma A, Vieth K, Rieckmann LM, Wanders A, Cisneros DA, Puhar A. Infection-induced membrane ruffling initiates danger and immune signaling via the mechanosensor PIEZO1. Cell Rep 2022; 40:111173. [PMID: 35947957 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Microorganisms are generally sensed by receptors recognizing microbial molecules, which evoke changes in cellular activities and gene expression. Bacterial pathogens induce secretion of the danger signal ATP as an early alert response of intestinal epithelial cells, initiating overt inflammation. However, what triggers ATP secretion during infection is unclear. Here we show that the inherently mechanosensitive plasma membrane channel PIEZO1 acts as a sensor for bacterial entry. PIEZO1 is mechanically activated by invasion-induced membrane ruffles upstream of Ca2+ influx and ATP secretion. Mimicking mechanical stimuli of pathogen uptake with sterile beads equally elicits ATP secretion. Chemical or genetic PIEZO1 inactivation inhibits mechanically induced ATP secretion. Moreover, chemical or mechanical PIEZO1 activation evokes gene expression in immune and barrier pathways. Thus, mechanosensation of invasion-induced plasma membrane distortion initiates immune signaling upon infection, independently of detection of microbial molecules. Hence, PIEZO1-dependent detection of infection is driven by physical signals instead of chemical ligands.
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- Lalitha Tadala
- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Biosciences, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Pathology, Aalborg University Hospital, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
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- Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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- The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), 901 87, Umeå, Sweden; Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), 901 87 Umeå, Sweden; Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
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Jin F, Feng Y, Chen C, Yao H, Zhang R, Zhang Q, Meng F, Chen X, Jiao X, Yin Y. Transmembrane Protein LMxysn_1693 of Serovar 4h Listeria monocytogenes Is Associated with Bile Salt Resistance and Intestinal Colonization. Microorganisms 2022; 10:microorganisms10071263. [PMID: 35888981 PMCID: PMC9320622 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms10071263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a ubiquitous foodborne pathogen comprising of 14 serotypes, of which serovar 4h isolates belonging to hybrid sub-lineage Ⅱ exhibit hypervirulent features. LMxysn_1693 of serovar 4h Lm XYSN, a member of genomic island-7 (GI-7), is predicted to a membrane protein with unknown function, which is conserved in serovar 4h Listeria monocytogenes. Under bile salts stress, Lm XYSN strain lacking LMxysn_1693 (XYSN∆1693) exhibited a stationary phase growth defect as well as a reduction in biofilm formation and strikingly down-regulated bile-salts-resistant genes and virulent genes. Particularly, LMxysn_1693 protein plays a crucial role in Lm XYSN adhesion and invasion to intestinal epithelial cells, as well as colonization in the ileum of mice. Taken together, these findings indicate that the LMxysn_1693 gene encodes a component of the putative ABC transporter system, synthetically interacts with genes involved in bile resistance, biofilm formation and virulence, and thus contributes to Listeria monocytogenes survival within and outside the host.
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- Fanxin Jin
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China; (F.J.); (Y.F.); (C.C.); (H.Y.); (R.Z.); (Q.Z.); (F.M.); (X.C.); (X.J.)
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, 48 East Wenhui Road, Yangzhou 225009, China
- Correspondence:
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Ling Z, Zhao D, Xie X, Yao H, Wang Y, Kong S, Chen X, Pan Z, Jiao X, Yin Y. inlF Enhances Listeria monocytogenes Early-Stage Infection by Inhibiting the Inflammatory Response. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 11:748461. [PMID: 35223532 PMCID: PMC8866704 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.748461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The internalin family proteins, which carry the leucine repeat region structural motif, play diverse roles in Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) infection and pathogenesis. Although Internalin F, encoded by inlF, was identified more than 20 years ago, its role in the Lm anti-inflammatory response remains unknown. Lm serotype 4b isolates are associated with the majority of listeriosis outbreaks, but the function of InlF in these strains is not fully understood. In this study, we aimed to elucidate the role of inlF in modulating the inflammatory response and pathogenesis of the 4b strain Lm NTSN. Strikingly, although inlF was highly expressed at the transcriptional level during infection of five non-phagocytic cell types, it was not involved in adherence or invasion. Conversely, inlF did contributed to Lm adhesion and invasion of macrophages, and dramatically suppressed the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β and tumor necrosis factor (TNF-α). Consistent with the in vitro results, during Lm infection mice, inlF significantly inhibited the expression of IL-1β and IL-6 in the spleen, as well as IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α in the liver. More importantly, inlF contributed to Lm colonization in the spleen, liver, and ileum during the early stage of mouse infection via intragastric administration, inducing severe inflammatory injury and histopathologic changes in the late stage. To our knowledge, this is the first report to demonstrate that inlF mediates the inhibition of the pro-inflammatory response and contributes to the colonization and survival of Lm during the early stage of infection in mice. Our research partly explains the high pathogenicity of serovar 4b strains and will lead to new insights into the pathogenesis and immune evasion of Lm.
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- Zhiting Ling
- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Xin’an Jiao, ; Yuelan Yin,
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- Jangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety of the Ministry of Education of China, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for the Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Xin’an Jiao, ; Yuelan Yin,
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Erickson S, Paulson J, Brown M, Hahn W, Gil J, Barron-Montenegro R, Moreno-Switt AI, Eisenberg M, Nguyen MM. Isolation and engineering of a Listeria grayi bacteriophage. Sci Rep 2021; 11:18947. [PMID: 34556683 PMCID: PMC8460666 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98134-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
Abstract
The lack of bacteriophages capable of infecting the Listeria species, Listeria grayi, is academically intriguing and presents an obstacle to the development of bacteriophage-based technologies for Listeria. We describe the isolation and engineering of a novel L. grayi bacteriophage, LPJP1, isolated from farm silage. With a genome over 200,000 base pairs, LPJP1 is the first and only reported jumbo bacteriophage infecting the Listeria genus. Similar to other Gram-positive jumbo phages, LPJP1 appeared to contain modified base pairs, which complicated initial attempts to obtain genomic sequence using standard methods. Following successful sequencing with a modified approach, a recombinant of LPJP1 encoding the NanoLuc luciferase was engineered using homologous recombination. This luciferase reporter bacteriophage successfully detected 100 stationary phase colony forming units of both subspecies of L. grayi in four hours. A single log phase colony forming unit was also sufficient for positive detection in the same time period. The recombinant demonstrated complete specificity for this particular Listeria species and did not infect 150 non-L. grayi Listeria strains nor any other bacterial genus. LPJP1 is believed to be the first reported lytic bacteriophage of L. grayi as well as the only jumbo bacteriophage to be successfully engineered into a luciferase reporter.
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- Stephen Erickson
- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, New Brighton, MN, 55112, USA.
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, New Brighton, MN, 55112, USA
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Burlington, NC, 27215, USA
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, New Brighton, MN, 55112, USA
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Los Angeles, CA, 90062, USA
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- Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Millennium Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacteria Resistance (MICROB-R), Santiago, Chile
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- Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Millennium Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacteria Resistance (MICROB-R), Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, Burlington, NC, 27215, USA
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- Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, New Brighton, MN, 55112, USA
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Birk MS, Ahmed-Begrich R, Tran S, Elsholz AKW, Frese CK, Charpentier E. Time-Resolved Proteome Analysis of Listeria monocytogenes during Infection Reveals the Role of the AAA+ Chaperone ClpC for Host Cell Adaptation. mSystems 2021; 6:e0021521. [PMID: 34342529 PMCID: PMC8407217 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00215-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The cellular proteome comprises all proteins expressed at a given time and defines an organism's phenotype under specific growth conditions. The proteome is shaped and remodeled by both protein synthesis and protein degradation. Here, we developed a new method which combines metabolic and chemical isobaric peptide labeling to simultaneously determine the time-resolved protein decay and de novo synthesis in an intracellular human pathogen. We showcase this method by investigating the Listeria monocytogenes proteome in the presence and absence of the AAA+ chaperone protein ClpC. ClpC associates with the peptidase ClpP to form an ATP-dependent protease complex and has been shown to play a role in virulence development in L. monocytogenes. However, the mechanism by which ClpC is involved in the survival and proliferation of intracellular L. monocytogenes remains elusive. Employing this new method, we observed extensive proteome remodeling in L. monocytogenes upon interaction with the host, supporting the hypothesis that ClpC-dependent protein degradation is required to initiate bacterial adaptation mechanisms. We identified more than 100 putative ClpC target proteins through their stabilization in a clpC deletion strain. Beyond the identification of direct targets, we also observed indirect effects of the clpC deletion on the protein abundance in diverse cellular and metabolic pathways, such as iron acquisition and flagellar assembly. Overall, our data highlight the crucial role of ClpC for L. monocytogenes adaptation to the host environment through proteome remodeling. IMPORTANCE Survival and proliferation of pathogenic bacteria inside the host depend on their ability to adapt to the changing environment. Profiling the underlying changes on the bacterial proteome level during the infection process is important to gain a better understanding of the pathogenesis and the host-dependent adaptation processes. The cellular protein abundance is governed by the interplay between protein synthesis and decay. The direct readout of these events during infection can be accomplished using pulsed stable-isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC). Combining this approach with tandem-mass-tag (TMT) labeling enabled multiplexed and time-resolved bacterial proteome quantification during infection. Here, we applied this integrated approach to investigate protein turnover during the temporal progression of adaptation of the human pathogen L. monocytogenes to its host on a system-wide scale. Our experimental approach can easily be transferred to probe the proteome remodeling in other bacteria under a variety of perturbations.
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- Marlène S. Birk
- Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany
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Miguel-Arribas A, Val-Calvo J, Gago-Córdoba C, Izquierdo JM, Abia D, Wu LJ, Errington J, Meijer WJJ. A novel bipartite antitermination system widespread in conjugative elements of Gram-positive bacteria. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:5553-5567. [PMID: 33999173 PMCID: PMC8191782 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Revised: 04/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Transcriptional regulation allows adaptive and coordinated gene expression, and is essential for life. Processive antitermination systems alter the transcription elongation complex to allow the RNA polymerase to read through multiple terminators in an operon. Here, we describe the discovery of a novel bipartite antitermination system that is widespread among conjugative elements from Gram-positive bacteria, which we named conAn. This system is composed of a large RNA element that exerts antitermination, and a protein that functions as a processivity factor. Besides allowing coordinated expression of very long operons, we show that these systems allow differential expression of genes within an operon, and probably contribute to strict regulation of the conjugation genes by minimizing the effects of spurious transcription. Mechanistic features of the conAn system are likely to decisively influence its host range, with important implications for the spread of antibiotic resistance and virulence genes.
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- Andrés Miguel-Arribas
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Bioinformatics Facility, Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa", (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Richardson Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Richardson Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE2 4AX, UK
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- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" (CSIC-UAM), C. Nicolás Cabrera 1, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Canto Blanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Chmielowska C, Korsak D, Szuplewska M, Grzelecka M, Maćkiw E, Stasiak M, Macion A, Skowron K, Bartosik D. Benzalkonium chloride and heavy metal resistance profiles of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from fish, fish products and food-producing factories in Poland. Food Microbiol 2021; 98:103756. [PMID: 33875198 DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2021.103756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2020] [Revised: 01/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to benzalkonium chloride (BC), cadmium and arsenic was tested (by susceptibility assays and molecular methods) in 287 Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from fish and fish products, and food-producing factories in Poland. Overall, 40% of the isolates were resistant to BC, 56% to cadmium and 41% to arsenic (57% displayed resistance to more than one of the tested compounds). Among BC-resistant isolates, the most commonly detected resistance determinant was the qacH gene (83%). Three distinct types of cadA gene determining resistance to cadmium were detected, with the cadA1 variant predominant (88%), while most arsenic-resistant isolates (86%) harbored the arsA gene associated with a Tn554-like transposon (one strain harbored two copies of arsA in different arsenic resistance cassettes). 53% of all tested isolates contained plasmids (from 4 kb to > 90 kb in size), which were classified into 11 groups (p1-p11) based on their restriction patterns. Interestingly, 12 isolates harbored the small mobilizable pLMST6-like plasmid pLIS3 encoding multidrug efflux pump EmrC. Clustering analysis of PFGE patterns revealed that these isolates represent several diverse bacterial populations, which strongly suggests mobility of the pLMST6-like plasmids among L. monocytogenes strains and their role in dissemination of BC resistance.
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- Cora Chmielowska
- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Bacterial Genetics, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland.
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Bacterial Genetics, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Bacterial Genetics, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland
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- National Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Hygiene, Department of Food Safety, Chocimska 24, 00-791, Warsaw, Poland
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- National Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Hygiene, Department of Food Safety, Chocimska 24, 00-791, Warsaw, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Bacterial Genetics, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland
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- Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Collegium Medicum of L. Rydygier, Department of Microbiology, M. Curie Skłodowskiej 9, 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Microbiology, Department of Bacterial Genetics, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096, Warsaw, Poland
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Duan F, Chen J, Yao H, Wang Y, Jia Y, Ling Z, Feng Y, Pan Z, Yin Y, Jiao X. Enhanced therapeutic efficacy of Listeria-based cancer vaccine with codon-optimized HPV16 E7. Hum Vaccin Immunother 2021; 17:1568-1577. [PMID: 33449866 DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2020.1839291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Cervical cancer is a leading cause of high mortality in women in developing countries and has a serious impact on women's health. Human papilloma virus (HPV) prophylactic vaccines have been produced and may hold promise for reducing the incidence of cervical cancer. However, the limitations of current HPV vaccine strategies make the development of HPV therapeutic vaccines particularly important for the treatment of HPV related lesions. Our previous work has demonstrated that LM4Δhly::E7 was safe and effective in inducing antitumor effect by antigen-specific cellular immune responses and direct killing of tumor cell on a cervical cancer model. In this study, the codon usage effect of a novel Listeria-based cervical cancer vaccine LM4Δhly::E7-1, was evaluated for effects of codon-optimized E7 expression, cellular immune response and therapeutic efficacy in a tumor-bearing murine model. Our data demonstrated that up-regulated expression of E7 was strikingly elevated by codon usage optimization, and thus induced significantly higher Th1-biased immunity, lymphocyte proliferation, and strong specific CTL activity ex-vivo compared with LM4Δhly::E7-treated mice. Furthermore, LM4Δhly::E7-1 enhanced a remarkable therapeutic effect in establishing tumors. Taken together, our results suggest that codon usage optimization is an important consideration in constructing live bacterial-vectored vaccines and is required for promoting effective T cell responses.
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- Feifei Duan
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Key Laboratory of Prevention and Control of Biological Hazard Factors (Animal Origin) for Agrifood Safety and Quality, MOA of China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease and Zoonosis, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Parsons C, Azizoglu R, Elhanafi D, Kathariou S. Mutant Construction and Integration Vector-Mediated Genetic Complementation in Listeria monocytogenes. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2220:177-185. [PMID: 32975775 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0982-8_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Genes that play a role in stress response mechanisms and other phenotypes of Listeria monocytogenes can be identified by construction and screening of mutant libraries. In this chapter, we describe the construction and screening of mutant libraries of L. monocytogenes using the plasmid pMC38, carrying a mariner-based transposon system (TC1/mariner) and constructed by Cao et al. (Appl Environ Microbiol 73:2758-2761, 2007). Following screening of mutant libraries, putative mutants are identified and the transposon is localized, leading to identification of the genes responsible for the phenotype of interest. To confirm the role of the transposon-harboring gene in the relevant phenotype, transposon mutants are genetically complemented with the wild-type gene using the site-specific temperature-sensitive integration vector pPL2, constructed by Lauer et al. (J Bacteriol 184:4177-4186, 2002).
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- Cameron Parsons
- Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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- Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Cold-shock proteins affect desiccation tolerance, biofilm formation and motility in Listeria monocytogenes. Int J Food Microbiol 2020; 329:108662. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2020.108662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 05/13/2020] [Accepted: 05/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Osuna BA, Karambelkar S, Mahendra C, Christie KA, Garcia B, Davidson AR, Kleinstiver BP, Kilcher S, Bondy-Denomy J. Listeria Phages Induce Cas9 Degradation to Protect Lysogenic Genomes. Cell Host Microbe 2020; 28:31-40.e9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2019] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Osuna BA, Karambelkar S, Mahendra C, Sarbach A, Johnson MC, Kilcher S, Bondy-Denomy J. Critical Anti-CRISPR Locus Repression by a Bi-functional Cas9 Inhibitor. Cell Host Microbe 2020; 28:23-30.e5. [PMID: 32325051 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2019] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Bacteriophages must rapidly deploy anti-CRISPR proteins (Acrs) to inactivate the RNA-guided nucleases that enforce CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity in their bacterial hosts. Listeria monocytogenes temperate phages encode up to three anti-Cas9 proteins, with acrIIA1 always present. AcrIIA1 binds and inhibits Cas9 with its C-terminal domain; however, the function of its highly conserved N-terminal domain (NTD) is unknown. Here, we report that the AcrIIA1NTD is a critical transcriptional repressor of the strong anti-CRISPR promoter. A rapid burst of anti-CRISPR transcription occurs during phage infection and the subsequent negative feedback by AcrIIA1NTD is required for optimal phage replication, even in the absence of CRISPR-Cas immunity. In the presence of CRISPR-Cas immunity, full-length AcrIIA1 uses its two-domain architecture to act as a "Cas9 sensor," tuning acr expression according to Cas9 levels. Finally, we identify AcrIIA1NTD homologs in other Firmicutes and demonstrate that they have been co-opted by hosts as "anti-anti-CRISPRs," repressing phage anti-CRISPR deployment.
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- Beatriz A Osuna
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH 8092, Switzerland
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition, and Health, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH 8092, Switzerland.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Quantitative Biosciences Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Innovative Genomics Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Ozyigit II. Gene transfer to plants by electroporation: methods and applications. Mol Biol Rep 2020; 47:3195-3210. [PMID: 32242300 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-020-05343-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2019] [Accepted: 02/22/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Developing gene transfer technologies enables the genetic manipulation of the living organisms more efficiently. The methods used for gene transfer fall into two main categories; natural and artificial transformation. The natural methods include the conjugation, transposition, bacterial transformation as well as phage and retroviral transductions, contain the physical methods whereas the artificial methods can physically alter and transfer genes from one to another organisms' cell using, for instance, biolistic transformation, micro- and macroinjection, and protoplast fusion etc. The artificial gene transformation can also be conducted through chemical methods which include calcium phosphate-mediated, polyethylene glycol-mediated, DEAE-Dextran, and liposome-mediated transfers. Electrical methods are also artificial ways to transfer genes that can be done by electroporation and electrofusion. Comparatively, among all the above-mentioned methods, electroporation is being widely used owing to its high efficiency and broader applicability. Electroporation is an electrical transformation method by which transient electropores are produced in the cell membranes. Based on the applications, process can be either reversible where electropores in membrane are resealable and cells preserve the vitality or irreversible where membrane is not able to reseal, and cell eventually dies. This problem can be minimized by developing numerical models to iteratively optimize the field homogeneity considering the cell size, shape, number, and electrode positions supplemented by real-time measurements. In modern biotechnology, numerical methods have been used in electrotransformation, electroporation-based inactivation, electroextraction, and electroporative biomass drying. Moreover, current applications of electroporation also point to some other uncovered potentials for various exploitations in future.
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- Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science and Arts, Marmara University, Goztepe, 34722, Istanbul, Turkey. .,Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, 720038, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
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Shao X, Fang K, Medina D, Wan J, Lee J, Hong SH. The probiotic,
Leuconostoc mesenteroides
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Listeria monocytogenes
biofilm formation. J Food Saf 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/jfs.12750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Xinhao Shao
- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringIllinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois
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- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringIllinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringIllinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois
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- Institute for Food Safety and HealthIllinois Institute of Technology Bedford Park Illinois
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- Department of Human Ecology, Food Science and Biotechnology Program, Food Microbiology LaboratoryDelaware State University Dover Delaware
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- Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringIllinois Institute of Technology Chicago Illinois
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Nyhan L, Begley M, Johnson N, Callanan M. An evaluation of Lux technology as an alternative methodology to determine growth rates of Listeria in laboratory media and complex food matrices. Int J Food Microbiol 2020; 317:108442. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2019.108442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Revised: 09/04/2019] [Accepted: 11/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Zhang X, Guan C, Hang Y, Liu F, Sun J, Yu H, Gan L, Zeng H, Zhu Y, Chen Z, Song H, Cheng C. An M29 Aminopeptidase from Listeria Monocytogenes Contributes to In Vitro Bacterial Growth but not to Intracellular Infection. Microorganisms 2020; 8:microorganisms8010110. [PMID: 31941013 PMCID: PMC7023490 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8010110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Aminopeptidases that catalyze the removal of N-terminal residues from polypeptides or proteins are crucial for physiological processes. Here, we explore the biological functions of an M29 family aminopeptidase II from Listeria monocytogenes (LmAmpII). We show that LmAmpII contains a conserved catalytic motif (EEHYHD) that is essential for its enzymatic activity and LmAmpII has a substrate preference for arginine and leucine. Studies on biological roles indicate that LmAmpII is required for in vitro growth in a chemically defined medium for optimal growth of L. monocytogenes but is not required for bacterial intracellular infection in epithelial cells and macrophages, as well as cell-to-cell spreading in fibroblasts. Moreover, LmAmpII is found as dispensable for bacterial pathogenicity in mice. Taken together, we conclude that LmAmpII, an M29 family aminopeptidase, can efficiently hydrolyze a wide range of substrates and is required for in vitro bacterial growth, which lays a foundation for in-depth investigations of aminopeptidases as potential targets to defend Listeria infection.
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- Xian Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Jixian Honors College of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China;
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (C.C.)
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Technology on Green-Eco-Healthy Animal Husbandry of Zhejiang Province, China-Australian Joint Laboratory for Animal Health Big Data Analytics, Zhejiang Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Animal Health Inspection & Internet Technology, College of Animal Science and Technology & College of Veterinary Medicine of Zhejiang A&F University, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an 311300, China; (X.Z.); (J.S.)
- Correspondence: (H.S.); (C.C.)
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Wu X, Ju X, Du L, Wang L, He R, Chen Z. The Man-PTS subunit ⅡC is responsible for the sensitivity of Listeria monocytogenes to durancin GL. Food Sci Nutr 2020; 8:150-161. [PMID: 31993141 PMCID: PMC6977476 DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.1285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Target cell recognition is an important issue in the realization of bacteriocin's activity. In this report, we provide genetic and biochemical evidence of durancin GL, a new bacteriocin produced by Enterococcus durans 41D, and use ⅡC subunit in the mannose phosphotransferase system (Man-PTS) of Listeria monocytogenes as target/receptor. First, the L. monocytogenes mutants with Man-PTS IIC or IID deletion were constructed with the vector pHoss1. Then, the utilization of glucose and mannose and the sensitivity to durancin GL of the mutant strains were investigated. Afterward, the interactions between durancin GL and the subunits of IIC or IID in Man-PTS of L. monocytogenes were characterized by yeast two-hybrid system. The results showed that the L. monocytogenes mutants with either IIC or IID deletion were not only resistant to durancin GL, but also their absorption and utilization of glucose and mannose were not disturbed by the presence of durancin GL. Finally, in situ detection of the interaction between durancin GL and Man-PTS subunits of IIC or IID by yeast two-hybrid system revealed that there was a strong interaction between durancin GL and Man-PTS subunit IIC. However, the interaction between durancin GL and Man-PTS subunit IID was not present or weak. Based on the experimental evidence above, the Man-PTS subunit IIC is responsible for the sensitivity of L. monocytogenes to bacteriocin durancin GL.
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- Xueyou Wu
- School of Food Science and Technology Jiangnan University Wuxi China
- College of Food Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Nanjing China
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- School of Food Science and Technology Jiangnan University Wuxi China
- College of Food Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Nanjing China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Nanjing China
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- School of Food Science and Technology Jiangnan University Wuxi China
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Yao H, Kang M, Wang Y, Feng Y, Kong S, Cai X, Ling Z, Chen S, Jiao X, Yin Y. An essential role for hfq involved in biofilm formation and virulence in serotype 4b Listeria monocytogenes. Microbiol Res 2018; 215:148-154. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2018] [Revised: 06/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Ethanolamine Permease EutH Promotes Vacuole Adaptation of Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes during Macrophage Infection. Infect Immun 2018. [PMID: 29531136 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00172-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Ethanolamine is a ubiquitous and essential molecule within a host. Significantly, bacterial pathogens exploit ethanolamine during infection to promote growth and regulate virulence. The ethanolamine permease EutH is dispensable for growth in vitro under standard conditions, whereas EutH is required for ethanolamine utilization at low pH. These findings suggested a model in which EutH facilitates diffusion of ethanolamine into the bacterial cell in acidic environments. To date, the ecological significance of this model has not been thoroughly investigated, and the importance of EutH to bacterial growth under physiologically relevant conditions is not known. During infection, immune cells internalize invading bacteria within an acidic, nutrient-depleted vacuole called the phagosome. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that EutH promotes bacterial survival following phagocytosis. Our findings indicate that EutH is important for survival and replication of the facultative intracellular pathogens Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes during prolonged or transient exposure to the phagosome, respectively. Furthermore, in agreement with EutH being important in the acidic environment, neutralization of the vacuole abolished the requirement for EutH. Significantly, consistent with a role for EutH in promoting intramacrophage survival, EutH was not required during S Typhimurium local intestinal infection but specifically conferred an advantage upon dissemination to peripheral organs. These findings reveal a physiologically relevant and conserved role for EutH in spatiotemporal niche adaptation during infection.
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Colliou N, Ge Y, Gong M, Zadeh M, Li J, Alonzo F, Mohamadzadeh M. Regulation of Th17 cells by P. UF1 against systemic Listeria monocytogenes infection. Gut Microbes 2018; 9:279-287. [PMID: 29420115 PMCID: PMC6219594 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2017.1417731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Regulation of Th17 and Th1 cell responses against intracellular pathogens, including Listeria monocytogenes (L. m), is critical to limit inflammation-induced tissue damage. We recently demonstrated the ability of P. UF1 bacterium derived from the intestinal bacterial commensals of preterm infants fed human breast milk to significantly mitigate pathogen-induced inflammation limiting colonic tissue damage. Here we further elucidated the potential of P. UF1 to also regulate innate and T cells, particularly Th17 and Th1 cells, against systemic L. m infection. Data demonstrate that P. UF1 not only robustly regulated protective Th17 and Th1 cells, but also sustained regulatory T cells (Treg cells) resulting in accelerated L. m clearance. Together, regulation of pathogenic inflammation by a novel probiotic bacterium such as P. UF1 may illuminate a new strategy to specifically control Th17-Th1 cells via IL-10+ Treg cells to limit systemic tissue damage induced by intracellular pathogens, including L. m.
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- Natacha Colliou
- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA,CONTACT Mansour Mohamadzadeh Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, University of Florida, 2015 SW16th Ave, Building 1017, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
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CodY-Mediated c-di-GMP-Dependent Inhibition of Mammalian Cell Invasion in Listeria monocytogenes. J Bacteriol 2018; 200:JB.00457-17. [PMID: 29229701 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00457-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Elevated levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP suppress virulence in diverse pathogenic bacteria, yet mechanisms are poorly characterized. In the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, high c-di-GMP levels inhibit mammalian cell invasion. Here, we show that invasion is impaired because of the decreased expression levels of internalin genes whose products are involved in invasion. We further show that at high c-di-GMP levels, the expression of the entire virulence regulon is suppressed, and so is the expression of the prfA gene encoding the master activator of the virulence regulon. Analysis of mechanisms controlling prfA expression pointed to the transcription factor CodY as a c-di-GMP-sensitive component. In high-c-di-GMP strains, codY gene expression is decreased, apparently due to the lower activity of CodY, which functions as an activator of codY transcription. We found that listerial CodY does not bind c-di-GMP in vitro and therefore investigated whether c-di-GMP levels affect two known cofactors of listerial CodY, branched-chain amino acids and GTP. Our manipulation of branched-chain amino acid levels did not perturb the c-di-GMP effect; however, our replacement of listerial CodY with the streptococcal CodY homolog, whose activity is GTP independent, abolished the c-di-GMP effect. The results of this study suggest that elevated c-di-GMP levels decrease the activity of the coordinator of metabolism and virulence, CodY, possibly via lower GTP levels, and that decreased CodY activity suppresses L. monocytogenes virulence by the decreased expression of the PrfA virulence regulon.IMPORTANCEListeria monocytogenes is a pathogen causing listeriosis, a disease responsible for the highest mortality rate among foodborne diseases. Understanding how the virulence of this pathogen is regulated is important for developing treatments to decrease the frequency of listerial infections in susceptible populations. In this study, we describe the mechanism through which elevated levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP inhibit listerial invasion in mammalian cells. Inhibition is caused by the decreased activity of the transcription factor CodY that coordinates metabolism and virulence.
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Ur Rahman S, Stanton M, Casey PG, Spagnuolo A, Bensi G, Hill C, Francis KP, Tangney M, Gahan CGM. Development of a Click Beetle Luciferase Reporter System for Enhanced Bioluminescence Imaging of Listeria monocytogenes: Analysis in Cell Culture and Murine Infection Models. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1797. [PMID: 29018414 PMCID: PMC5622934 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2017] [Accepted: 09/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular pathogen that is widely used as a model organism for the analysis of infection biology. In this context, there is a current need to develop improved reporters for enhanced bioluminescence imaging (BLI) of the pathogen in infection models. We have developed a click beetle red luciferase (CBR-luc) based vector (pPL2CBRopt) expressing codon optimized CBR-luc under the control of a highly expressed Listerial promoter (PHELP) for L. monocytogenes and have compared this to a lux-based system expressing bacterial luciferase for BLI of the pathogen using in vitro growth experiments and in vivo models. The CBR-luc plasmid stably integrates into the L. monocytogenes chromosome and can be used to label field isolates and laboratory strains of the pathogen. Growth experiments revealed that CBR-luc labeled L. monocytogenes emits a bright signal in exponential phase that is maintained during stationary phase. In contrast, lux-labeled bacteria produced a light signal that peaked during exponential phase and was significantly reduced during stationary phase. Light from CBR-luc labeled bacteria was more efficient than the signal from lux-labeled bacteria in penetrating an artificial tissue depth assay system. A cell invasion assay using C2Bbe1 cells and a systemic murine infection model revealed that CBR-luc is suited to BLI approaches and demonstrated enhanced sensitivity relative to lux in the context of Listeria infection models. Overall, we demonstrate that this novel CBR reporter system provides efficient, red-shifted light production relative to lux and may have significant applications in the analysis of L. monocytogenes pathogenesis.
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- Sadeeq Ur Rahman
- APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,College of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Cork Cancer Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,Cork Cancer Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,SynBio Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,SynBio Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.,School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Inhibition of CRISPR-Cas9 with Bacteriophage Proteins. Cell 2016; 168:150-158.e10. [PMID: 28041849 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 327] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2016] [Revised: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Bacterial CRISPR-Cas systems utilize sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases to defend against bacteriophage infection. As a countermeasure, numerous phages are known that produce proteins to block the function of class 1 CRISPR-Cas systems. However, currently no proteins are known to inhibit the widely used class 2 CRISPR-Cas9 system. To find these inhibitors, we searched cas9-containing bacterial genomes for the co-existence of a CRISPR spacer and its target, a potential indicator for CRISPR inhibition. This analysis led to the discovery of four unique type II-A CRISPR-Cas9 inhibitor proteins encoded by Listeria monocytogenes prophages. More than half of L. monocytogenes strains with cas9 contain at least one prophage-encoded inhibitor, suggesting widespread CRISPR-Cas9 inactivation. Two of these inhibitors also blocked the widely used Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 when assayed in Escherichia coli and human cells. These natural Cas9-specific "anti-CRISPRs" present tools that can be used to regulate the genome engineering activities of CRISPR-Cas9.
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Mollerup MS, Ross JA, Helfer AC, Meistrup K, Romby P, Kallipolitis BH. Two novel members of the LhrC family of small RNAs in Listeria monocytogenes with overlapping regulatory functions but distinctive expression profiles. RNA Biol 2016; 13:895-915. [PMID: 27400116 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2016.1208332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Multicopy small RNAs (sRNAs) have gained recognition as an important feature of bacterial gene regulation. In the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, 5 homologous sRNAs, called LhrC1-5, control gene expression by base pairing to target mRNAs though 3 conserved UCCC motifs common to all 5 LhrCs. We show here that the sRNAs Rli22 and Rli33-1 are structurally and functionally related to LhrC1-5, expanding the LhrC family to 7 members, which makes it the largest multicopy sRNA family reported so far. Rli22 and Rli33-1 both contain 2 UCCC motifs important for post-transcriptional repression of 3 LhrC target genes. One such target, oppA, encodes a virulence-associated oligo-peptide binding protein. Like LhrC1-5, Rli22 and Rli33-1 employ their UCCC motifs to recognize the Shine-Dalgarno region of oppA mRNA and prevent formation of the ribosomal complex, demonstrating that the 7 sRNAs act in a functionally redundant manner. However, differential expression profiles of the sRNAs under infection-relevant conditions suggest that they might also possess non-overlapping functions. Collectively, this makes the LhrC family a unique case for studying the purpose of sRNA multiplicity in the context of bacterial virulence.
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- Maria Storm Mollerup
- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark
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- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark
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- b Architecture et Réactivité de l´ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC , Strasbourg , France
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- a Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark
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- b Architecture et Réactivité de l´ARN, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IBMC , Strasbourg , France
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Denes T, den Bakker HC, Tokman JI, Guldimann C, Wiedmann M. Selection and Characterization of Phage-Resistant Mutant Strains of Listeria monocytogenes Reveal Host Genes Linked to Phage Adsorption. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:4295-305. [PMID: 25888172 PMCID: PMC4475870 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00087-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2015] [Accepted: 04/12/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Listeria-infecting phages are readily isolated from Listeria-containing environments, yet little is known about the selective forces they exert on their host. Here, we identified that two virulent phages, LP-048 and LP-125, adsorb to the surface of Listeria monocytogenes strain 10403S through different mechanisms. We isolated and sequenced, using whole-genome sequencing, 69 spontaneous mutant strains of 10403S that were resistant to either one or both phages. Mutations from 56 phage-resistant mutant strains with only a single mutation mapped to 10 genes representing five loci on the 10403S chromosome. An additional 12 mutant strains showed two mutations, and one mutant strain showed three mutations. Two of the loci, containing seven of the genes, accumulated the majority (n = 64) of the mutations. A representative mutant strain for each of the 10 genes was shown to resist phage infection through mechanisms of adsorption inhibition. Complementation of mutant strains with the associated wild-type allele was able to rescue phage susceptibility for 6 out of the 10 representative mutant strains. Wheat germ agglutinin, which specifically binds to N-acetylglucosamine, bound to 10403S and mutant strains resistant to LP-048 but did not bind to mutant strains resistant to only LP-125. We conclude that mutant strains resistant to only LP-125 lack terminal N-acetylglucosamine in their wall teichoic acid (WTA), whereas mutant strains resistant to both phages have disruptive mutations in their rhamnose biosynthesis operon but still possess N-acetylglucosamine in their WTA.
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- Thomas Denes
- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Karthikeyan R, Gunasekaran P, Rajendhran J. Molecular Serotyping and Pathogenic Potential ofListeria monocytogenesIsolated from Milk and Milk Products in Tamil Nadu, India. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2015; 12:522-8. [DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2014.1872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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- Raman Karthikeyan
- Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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- Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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- Department of Genetics, Centre for Excellence in Genomic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
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Eugster MR, Morax LS, Hüls VJ, Huwiler SG, Leclercq A, Lecuit M, Loessner MJ. Bacteriophage predation promotes serovar diversification in Listeria monocytogenes. Mol Microbiol 2015; 97:33-46. [PMID: 25825127 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterial pathogen classified into distinct serovars (SVs) based on somatic and flagellar antigens. To correlate phenotype with genetic variation, we analyzed the wall teichoic acid (WTA) glycosylation genes of SV 1/2, 3 and 7 strains, which differ in decoration of the ribitol-phosphate backbone with N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) and/or rhamnose. Inactivation of lmo1080 or the dTDP-l-rhamnose biosynthesis genes rmlACBD (lmo1081-1084) resulted in loss of rhamnose, whereas disruption of lmo1079 led to GlcNAc deficiency. We found that all SV 3 and 7 strains actually originate from a SV 1/2 background, as a result of small mutations in WTA rhamnosylation and/or GlcNAcylation genes. Genetic complementation of different SV 3 and 7 isolates using intact alleles fully restored a characteristic SV 1/2 WTA carbohydrate pattern, including antisera reactions and phage adsorption. Intriguingly, phage-resistant L. monocytogenes EGDe (SV 1/2a) isolates featured the same glycosylation gene mutations and were serotyped as SV 3 or 7 respectively. Again, genetic complementation restored both carbohydrate antigens and phage susceptibility. Taken together, our data demonstrate that L. monocytogenes SV 3 and 7 originate from point mutations in glycosylation genes, and we show that phage predation represents a major driving force for serovar diversification and evolution of L. monocytogenes.
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- Marcel R Eugster
- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institut Pasteur, French National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center for Listeria, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, French National Reference Center and WHO Collaborating Center for Listeria, 75015, Paris, France
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, CH-8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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Burall LS, Simpson AC, Chou L, Laksanalamai P, Datta AR. A novel gene, lstC, of Listeria monocytogenes is implicated in high salt tolerance. Food Microbiol 2015; 48:72-82. [PMID: 25790994 DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2014.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2014] [Revised: 12/01/2014] [Accepted: 12/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Listeria monocytogenes, causative agent of human listeriosis, has been isolated from a wide variety of foods including deli meats, soft cheeses, cantaloupes, sprouts and canned mushrooms. Standard control measures for restricting microbial growth such as refrigeration and high salt are often inadequate as L. monocytogenes grows quite well in these environments. In an effort to better understand the genetic and physiological basis by which L. monocytogenes circumvents these controls, a transposon library of L. monocytogenes was screened for changes in their ability to grow in 7% NaCl and/ or at 5 °C. This work identified a transposon insertion upstream of an operon, here named lstABC, that led to a reduction in growth in 7% NaCl. In-frame deletion studies identified lstC which codes for a GNAT-acetyltransferase being responsible for the phenotype. Transcriptomic and RT-PCR analyses identified nine genes that were upregulated in the presence of high salt in the ΔlstC mutant. Further analysis of lstC and the genes affected by ΔlstC is needed to understand LstC's role in salt tolerance.
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- Laurel S Burall
- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA
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- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA
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- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA
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- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA
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- Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA.
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Köseoğlu VK, Heiss C, Azadi P, Topchiy E, Güvener ZT, Lehmann TE, Miller KW, Gomelsky M. Listeria monocytogenes exopolysaccharide: origin, structure, biosynthetic machinery and c-di-GMP-dependent regulation. Mol Microbiol 2015; 96:728-43. [PMID: 25662512 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Elevated levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP activate biosynthesis of an unknown exopolysaccharide (EPS) in the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. This EPS strongly protects cells against disinfectants and desiccation, indicating its potential significance for listerial persistence in the environment and for food safety. We analyzed the potential phylogenetic origin of this EPS, determined its complete structure, characterized genes involved in its biosynthesis and hydrolysis and identified diguanylate cyclases activating its synthesis. Phylogenetic analysis of EPS biosynthesis proteins suggests that they have evolved within monoderms. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that L. monocytogenes EPS is cell surface-bound. Secreted carbohydrates represent exclusively cell-wall debris. Based on carbohydrate composition, linkage and NMR analysis, the structure of the purified EPS is identified as a β-1,4-linked N-acetylmannosamine chain decorated with terminal α-1,6-linked galactose. All genes of the pssA-E operon are required for EPS production and so is a separately located pssZ gene. We show that PssZ has an EPS-specific glycosylhydrolase activity. Exogenously added PssZ prevents EPS-mediated cell aggregation and disperses preformed aggregates, whereas an E72Q mutant in the presumed catalytic residue is much less active. The diguanylate cyclases DgcA and DgcB, whose genes are located next to pssZ, are primarily responsible for c-di-GMP-dependent EPS production.
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- Volkan K Köseoğlu
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
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- Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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Tiwari KB, Birlingmair J, Wilkinson BJ, Jayaswal RK. Role of the twin-arginine translocase (tat) system in iron uptake in Listeria monocytogenes. Microbiology (Reading) 2015; 161:264-271. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.083642-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Kiran B. Tiwari
- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
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Zhang H, Zhou Y, Bao H, Zhang L, Wang R, Zhou X. Plasmid-borne cadmium resistant determinants are associated with the susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes to bacteriophage. Microbiol Res 2015; 172:1-6. [PMID: 25721472 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2015.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Revised: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is an intracellular pathogen causing gastroenteritis, central nervous system infections and abortions. Chromosomal virulence determinants have been extensively investigated. However, the function of genes encoded by plasmids in L. monocytogenes has not been fully understood. In this study, we determined the prevalence and molecular profile of plasmids in food isolates of L. monocytogenes and examined the contribution of four plasmid-borne cadmium-resistant genes to the susceptibility of L. monocytogenes to bacteriophage infection. The results showed that plasmids were isolated from 55% (11/20) of the isolates and the plasmids exhibited 10 molecular types as determined by restriction enzyme digestion. Furthermore, 65% and 15% of the isolates were tolerant to cadmium and benzalkonium chloride (BC), respectively. All the BC-resistant isolates were resistant to cadmium. The prevalence of predicted cadmium resistance determinants (cadA1, cadA2, cadA3 and cadC) was determined and the results showed that cadA1 (35%) in isolates of serotypes 1/2a and 1/2b was much more prevalent than cadC (15%). As expected, both cadA and cadC mutants had reduced resistance to cadmium, while the resistance to BC was not significantly affected. Interestingly, both cadA and cadC mutants showed significantly higher susceptibility against L. monocytogenes phage LipG2-5 and FWLLm3 compared with the wide-type strain. Based on these results, we concluded that plasmids from L. monocytogenes encoded important functional determinants that are not only associated with cadmium resistance, but also phage susceptibility.
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- Hui Zhang
- Key Lab of Agro-Food Safety and Quality Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Animal-derived Food Safety of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China; Department of Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, The University of Connecticut, 61 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3089, USA
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- Key Lab of Agro-Food Safety and Quality Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Animal-derived Food Safety of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Key Lab of Agro-Food Safety and Quality Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Animal-derived Food Safety of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Key Lab of Agro-Food Safety and Quality Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Animal-derived Food Safety of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China
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- Key Lab of Agro-Food Safety and Quality Ministry of Agriculture, Key Lab of Animal-derived Food Safety of Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China.
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- Department of Pathobiology & Veterinary Science, The University of Connecticut, 61 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3089, USA.
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Day JB, Basavanna U. Real-time PCR detection of Listeria monocytogenes in infant formula and lettuce following macrophage-based isolation and enrichment. J Appl Microbiol 2015; 118:233-44. [PMID: 25346434 DOI: 10.1111/jam.12674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS To develop a rapid detection procedure for Listeria monocytogenes in infant formula and lettuce using a macrophage-based enrichment protocol and real-time PCR. METHODS AND RESULTS A macrophage cell culture system was employed for the isolation and enrichment of L. monocytogenes from infant formula and lettuce for subsequent identification using real-time PCR. Macrophage monolayers were exposed to infant formula and lettuce contaminated with a serial dilution series of L. monocytogenes. As few as approx. 10 CFU ml(-1) or g(-1) of L. monocytogenes were detected in infant formula and lettuce after 16 h postinfection by real-time PCR. Internal positive PCR controls were utilized to eliminate the possibility of false-negative results. Co-inoculation with Listeria innocua did not reduce the L. monocytogenes detection sensitivity. Intracellular L. monocytogenes could also be isolated on Listeria selective media from infected macrophage lysates for subsequent confirmation. CONCLUSIONS The detection method is highly sensitive and specific for L. monocytogenes in infant formula and lettuce and establishes a rapid identification time of 20 and 48 h for presumptive and confirmatory identification, respectively. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The method is a promising alternative to many currently used q-PCR detection methods which employ traditional selective media for enrichment of contaminated food samples. Macrophage enrichment of L. monocytogenes eliminates PCR inhibitory food elements and contaminating food microflora which produce cleaner samples that increase the rapidity and sensitivity of detection.
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- J B Day
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Colleg Park, MD, USA
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Lmo0171, a novel internalin-like protein, determines cell morphology of Listeria monocytogenes and its ability to invade human cell lines. Curr Microbiol 2014; 70:267-74. [PMID: 25323012 PMCID: PMC4293459 DOI: 10.1007/s00284-014-0715-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Accepted: 09/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Internalins comprise a class of Listeria monocytogenes proteins responsible for activation of signalling pathways leading to phagocytic uptake of the bacterium by the host cell. In this paper, a possible role of Lmo0171-a new member of the internalin family was investigated. Disruption of the lmo0171 gene resulted in important cell morphology alterations along with a decrease in the ability to invade three eukaryotic cell lines, that is Int407, Hep-2 and HeLa and diminished adhesion efficiency to int407, thereby suggesting bifunctionality of the newly characterised Lmo0171 internalin.
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Chen LH, Köseoğlu VK, Güvener ZT, Myers-Morales T, Reed JM, D'Orazio SEF, Miller KW, Gomelsky M. Cyclic di-GMP-dependent signaling pathways in the pathogenic Firmicute Listeria monocytogenes. PLoS Pathog 2014; 10:e1004301. [PMID: 25101646 PMCID: PMC4125290 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2013] [Accepted: 06/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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We characterized key components and major targets of the c-di-GMP signaling pathways in the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes, identified a new c-di-GMP-inducible exopolysaccharide responsible for motility inhibition, cell aggregation, and enhanced tolerance to disinfectants and desiccation, and provided first insights into the role of c-di-GMP signaling in listerial virulence. Genome-wide genetic and biochemical analyses of c-di-GMP signaling pathways revealed that L. monocytogenes has three GGDEF domain proteins, DgcA (Lmo1911), DgcB (Lmo1912) and DgcC (Lmo2174), that possess diguanylate cyclase activity, and three EAL domain proteins, PdeB (Lmo0131), PdeC (Lmo1914) and PdeD (Lmo0111), that possess c-di-GMP phosphodiesterase activity. Deletion of all phosphodiesterase genes (ΔpdeB/C/D) or expression of a heterologous diguanylate cyclase stimulated production of a previously unknown exopolysaccharide. The synthesis of this exopolysaccharide was attributed to the pssA-E (lmo0527-0531) gene cluster. The last gene of the cluster encodes the fourth listerial GGDEF domain protein, PssE, that functions as an I-site c-di-GMP receptor essential for exopolysaccharide synthesis. The c-di-GMP-inducible exopolysaccharide causes cell aggregation in minimal medium and impairs bacterial migration in semi-solid agar, however, it does not promote biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces. The exopolysaccharide also greatly enhances bacterial tolerance to commonly used disinfectants as well as desiccation, which may contribute to survival of L. monocytogenes on contaminated food products and in food-processing facilities. The exopolysaccharide and another, as yet unknown c-di-GMP-dependent target, drastically decrease listerial invasiveness in enterocytes in vitro, and lower pathogen load in the liver and gallbladder of mice infected via an oral route, which suggests that elevated c-di-GMP levels play an overall negative role in listerial virulence. Listeria monocytogenes is ubiquitously present in the environment, highly adaptable and tolerant to various stresses. L. monocytogenes is also a foodborne pathogen associated with the largest foodborne outbreaks in recent US history. Signaling pathways involving the second messenger c-di-GMP play important roles in increased stress survival of proteobacteria and mycobacteria, yet roles of c-di-GMP signaling pathways in L. monocytogenes have remained unexplored. Here, we identified and systematically characterized functions of the proteins involved in c-di-GMP synthesis, degradation and sensing. We show that elevated c-di-GMP levels in L. monocytogenes result in synthesis of a previously unknown exopolysaccharide that promotes cell aggregation, inhibits motility in semi-solid media, and importantly, enhances bacterial tolerance to commonly used disinfectants as well as desiccation. These properties of the exopolysaccharide may increase listerial survival in food processing plants as well as on produce during transportation and storage. Elevated c-di-GMP levels also grossly diminish listerial invasiveness in enterocytes in vitro, and impair bacterial accumulation in selected mouse organs during oral infection.
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- Li-Hong Chen
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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Krawczyk-Balska A, Korsak D, Popowska M. The surface protein Lmo1941 with LysM domain influences cell wall structure and susceptibility of Listeria monocytogenes to cephalosporins. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2014; 357:175-83. [PMID: 24974853 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2014] [Revised: 06/04/2014] [Accepted: 06/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive bacterium causing rare but dangerous cases of disease in humans and animals. The β-lactams penicillin G and ampicillin are the antibiotics of choice in the treatment of listeriosis. Recently, lmo1941, encoding a surface protein of L. monocytogenes with unknown function, was identified as a gene transcriptionally upregulated under penicillin G pressure. In this study, the effect of lmo1941 knockout on the susceptibility of L. monocytogenes to β-lactams was examined. Deletion mutant in lmo1941 was constructed and subjected to studies, which revealed that the deletion of lmo1941 had no effect on susceptibility and tolerance to penicillin G and ampicillin but resulted, however, in increased susceptibility of L. monocytogenes to several cephalosporins. Subsequently, the potential effect of lmo1941 mutation on the cell wall of L. monocytogenes was investigated. The analysis revealed quantitative changes in the muropeptide profile of peptidoglycan and a decrease in density of the high-density zone of cell wall of the mutant strain. Both these changes were observed in cells taken from the stationary phase. These results indicate that the surface protein Lmo1941 affects peptidoglycan composition and cell wall structure of L. monocytogenes in the stationary phase of growth.
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- Agata Krawczyk-Balska
- Faculty of Biology, Department of Applied Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Paspaliari DK, Mollerup MS, Kallipolitis BH, Ingmer H, Larsen MH. Chitinase expression in Listeria monocytogenes is positively regulated by the Agr system. PLoS One 2014; 9:e95385. [PMID: 24752234 PMCID: PMC3994053 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes encodes two chitinases, ChiA and ChiB, which allow the bacterium to hydrolyze chitin, the second most abundant polysaccharide in nature. Intriguingly, despite the absence of chitin in human and mammalian hosts, both of the chitinases have been deemed important for infection, through a mechanism that, at least in the case of ChiA, involves modulation of host immune responses. In this study, we show that the expression of the two chitinases is subject to regulation by the listerial agr system, a homologue of the agr quorum-sensing system of Staphylococcus aureus, that has so far been implicated in virulence and biofilm formation. We demonstrate that in addition to these roles, the listerial agr system is required for efficient chitin hydrolysis, as deletion of agrD, encoding the putative precursor of the agr autoinducer, dramatically decreased chitinolytic activity on agar plates. Agr was specifically induced in response to chitin addition in stationary phase and agrD was found to regulate the amount of chiA, but not chiB, transcripts. Although the transcript levels of chiB did not depend on agrD, the extracellular protein levels of both chitinases were reduced in the ΔagrD mutant. The regulatory effect of agr on chiA is potentially mediated through the small RNA LhrA, which we show here to be negatively regulated by agr. LhrA is in turn known to repress chiA translation by binding to the chiA transcript and interfering with ribosome recruitment. Our results highlight a previously unrecognized role of the agr system and suggest that autoinducer-based regulation of chitinolytic systems may be more commonplace than previously thought.
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- Dafni Katerina Paspaliari
- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Azizoglu RO, Elhanafi D, Kathariou S. Mutant construction and integration vector-mediated gene complementation in Listeria monocytogenes. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1157:201-11. [PMID: 24792560 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0703-8_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Genes that play role in stress response mechanisms and other phenotypes of bacteria can be identified by construction and screening of mutant libraries. In this chapter, we describe the construction and screening of mutant libraries of Listeria monocytogenes using a plasmid, pMC38, carrying a mariner-based transposon system (TC1/mariner) and constructed by Cao et al. (Appl Environ Microbiol 73:2758-2761, 2007). Following screening of the mutant library, putative mutants are identified and the transposon is localized, leading to identification of the genes that play possible roles in the phenotype of interest. To confirm the role of the gene in the relevant phenotype, transposon mutants are genetically complemented with the wild type gene using the site-specific temperature-sensitive integration vector pPL2, constructed by Lauer et al. (J Bacteriol 184:4177-4186, 2002).
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- Reha Onur Azizoglu
- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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Bacteriocin production is an important probiotic trait of intestinal bacteria. In this study, we identify a new type of bacteriocin, bactofencin A, produced by a porcine intestinal isolate Lactobacillus salivarius DPC6502, and assess its potency against pathogenic species including Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria monocytogenes. Genome sequencing of the bacteriocin producer revealed bfnA, which encodes the mature and highly basic (pI 10.59), 22-amino-acid defensin-like peptide. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization–time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectral analysis determined that bactofencin A has a molecular mass of 2,782 Da and contains two cysteine residues that form an intramolecular disulfide bond. Although an ABC transporter and transport accessory protein were also present within the bacteriocin gene cluster, a classical bacteriocin immunity gene was not detected. Interestingly, a dltB homologue was identified downstream of bfnA. DltB is usually encoded within the dlt operon of many Gram-positive bacteria. It is responsible for d-alanylation of teichoic acids in the cell wall and has previously been associated with bacterial resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides. Heterologous expression of this gene conferred bactofencin A-specific immunity on sensitive strains of L. salivarius and S. aureus (although not L. monocytogenes), establishing its role in bacteriocin immunity. An analysis of the distribution of bfnA revealed that it was present in four additional isolates derived from porcine origin and absent from five human isolates, suggesting that its distribution is host specific. Given its novelty, we anticipate that bactofencin A represents the prototype of a new class of bacteriocins characterized as being cationic, with a DltB homologue providing a cognate immunity function. This study describes the identification, purification, and characterization of bactofencin A, a novel type of bacteriocin produced by L. salivarius DPC6502. Interestingly, bactofencin A is not similar to any other known bacteriocin but instead shares similarity with eukaryotic cationic antimicrobial peptides, and here, we demonstrate that it inhibits two medically significant pathogens. Genome sequence analysis of the producing strain also revealed the presence of an atypical dltB homologue in the bacteriocin gene cluster, which was lacking a classical bacteriocin immunity gene. Furthermore, cloning this gene rendered sensitive strains resistant to the bacteriocin, thereby establishing its role in providing cognate bacteriocin immunity. Four additional L. salivarius isolates, also of porcine origin, were found to contain the bacteriocin biosynthesis genes and successfully produced bactofencin A, while these genes were absent from five human-derived strains investigated.
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Krawczyk-Balska A, Lipiak M. Critical role of a ferritin-like protein in the control of Listeria monocytogenes cell envelope structure and stability under β-lactam pressure. PLoS One 2013; 8:e77808. [PMID: 24204978 PMCID: PMC3812014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2013] [Accepted: 09/05/2013] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is susceptible to the β-lactam antibiotics penicillin G and ampicillin, and these are the drugs of choice for the treatment of listerial infections. However, these antibiotics exert only a bacteriostatic effect on this bacterium and consequently, L. monocytogenes is regarded as β-lactam tolerant. It is widely accepted that the phenomenon of bacterial tolerance to β-lactams is due to the lack of adequate autolysin activity, but the mechanisms of L. monocytogenes tolerance to this class of antibiotics are poorly characterized. A ferritin-like protein (Fri) was recently identified as a mediator of β-lactam tolerance in L. monocytogenes, but its function in this process remains unknown. The present study was undertaken to improve our understanding of L. monocytogenes tolerance to β-lactams and to characterize the role of Fri in this phenomenon. A comparative physiological analysis of wild-type L. monocytogenes and a fri deletion mutant provided evidence of a multilevel mechanism controlling autolysin activity in cells grown under β-lactam pressure, which leads to a reduction in the level and/or activity of cell wall-associated autolysins. This is accompanied by increases in the amount of teichoic acids, cell wall thickness and cell envelope integrity of L. monocytogenes grown in the presence of penicillin G, and provides the basis for the innate β-lactam tolerance of this bacterium. Furthermore, this study revealed the inability of the L. monocytogenes Δ fri mutant to deplete autolysins from the cell wall, to adjust the content of teichoic acids and to maintain their D-alanylation at the correct level when treated with penicillin G, thus providing further evidence that Fri is involved in the control of L. monocytogenes cell envelope structure and stability under β-lactam pressure.
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- Agata Krawczyk-Balska
- Department of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Cummins J, Casey PG, Joyce SA, Gahan CGM. A mariner transposon-based signature-tagged mutagenesis system for the analysis of oral infection by Listeria monocytogenes. PLoS One 2013; 8:e75437. [PMID: 24069416 PMCID: PMC3771922 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive foodborne pathogen and the causative agent of listerosis a disease that manifests predominately as meningitis in the non-pregnant individual or infection of the fetus and spontaneous abortion in pregnant women. Common-source outbreaks of foodborne listeriosis are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. However, relatively little is known concerning the mechanisms that govern infection via the oral route. In order to aid functional genetic analysis of the gastrointestinal phase of infection we designed a novel signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) system based upon the invasive L. monocytogenes 4b serotype H7858 strain. To overcome the limitations of gastrointestinal infection by L. monocytogenes in the mouse model we created a H7858 strain that is genetically optimised for oral infection in mice. Furthermore our STM system was based upon a mariner transposon to favour numerous and random transposition events throughout the L. monocytogenes genome. Use of the STM bank to investigate oral infection by L. monocytogenes identified 21 insertion mutants that demonstrated significantly reduced potential for infection in our model. The sites of transposon insertion included lmOh7858_0671 (encoding an internalin homologous to Lmo0610), lmOh7858_0898 (encoding a putative surface-expressed LPXTG protein homologous to Lmo0842), lmOh7858_2579 (encoding the HupDGC hemin transport system) and lmOh7858_0399 (encoding a putative fructose specific phosphotransferase system). We propose that this represents an optimised STM system for functional genetic analysis of foodborne/oral infection by L. monocytogenes.
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- Joanne Cummins
- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
- School of Pharmacy, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
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Liu Y, Ceruso M, Jiang Y, Datta AR, Carter L, Strain E, Pepe T, Anastasi A, Fratamico P. Construction of Listeria monocytogenes mutants with in-frame deletions in the phosphotransferase transport system (PTS) and analysis of their growth under stress conditions. J Food Sci 2013; 78:M1392-8. [PMID: 23909479 DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.12181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2013] [Accepted: 05/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that is difficult to eliminate due to its ability to survive under different stress conditions such as low pH and high salt. To better control this pathogen in food, it is important to understand its survival mechanisms under these stress conditions. LMOf2365_0442, 0443, and 0444 encode for phosphotransferase transport system (PTS) permease (fructose-specific IIABC components) that is responsible for sugar transport. LMOf2365_0445 encodes for glycosyl hydrolase. These genes were induced by high pressure and inhibited under salt treatments; therefore, we hypothesized that genes encoding these PTS proteins may be involved in general stress responses. To study the function of these genes, deletion mutants of the PTS genes (LMOf2365_0442, LMOf2365_0443, and LMOf2365_0444) and the downstream gene LMOf2365_0445 were created in L. monocytogenes strain F2365. These deletion mutants were tested under different stress conditions. The growth of ∆LMOf2365_0445 was increased under nisin (125 μg/mL) treatments compared to the wild-type (P < 0.01). The growth of ∆LMOf2365_0442 in salt (brain-heart infusion medium with 5% NaCl) was significantly increased (P < 0.01), and ∆LMOf2365_0442 showed increased growth under acidic conditions (pH 5.0) compared to the wild-type (P < 0.01). The results from phenotypic arrays demonstrated that some of these mutants showed slightly slower growth under different carbon sources and basic conditions. The results indicate that deletion mutants ∆LMOf2365_0442 and ∆LMOf2365_0445 were more resistant to multiple stress conditions compared to the wild-type, suggesting that they may contribute to the general stress response in L. monocytogenes. An understanding of the growth of these mutants under multiple stress conditions may assist in the development of intervention strategies to control L. monocytogenes in food.
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- Yanhong Liu
- Molecular Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 600 East Mermaid Lane, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, U.S.A
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Wassinger A, Zhang L, Tracy E, Munson RS, Kathariou S, Wang HH. Role of a GntR-family response regulator LbrA in Listeria monocytogenes biofilm formation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e70448. [PMID: 23894658 PMCID: PMC3720924 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2012] [Accepted: 06/21/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The formation of Listeria monocytogenes biofilms contributes to persistent contamination in food processing facilities. A microarray comparison of L. monocytogenes between the transcriptome of the strong biofilm forming strain (Bfms) Scott A and the weak biofilm forming (Bfmw) strain F2365 was conducted to identify genes potentially involved in biofilm formation. Among 951 genes with significant difference in expression between the two strains, a GntR-family response regulator encoding gene (LMOf2365_0414), designated lbrA, was found to be highly expressed in Scott A relative to F2365. A Scott A lbrA-deletion mutant, designated AW3, formed biofilm to a much lesser extent as compared to the parent strain by a rapid attachment assay and scanning electron microscopy. Complementation with lbrA from Scott A restored the Bfms phenotype in the AW3 derivative. A second microarray assessment using the lbrA deletion mutant AW3 and the wild type Scott A revealed a total of 304 genes with expression significantly different between the two strains, indicating the potential regulatory role of LbrA in L. monocytogenes. A cloned copy of Scott A lbrA was unable to confer enhanced biofilm forming potential in F2365, suggesting that additional factors contributed to weak biofilm formation by F2365.
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- Andrew Wassinger
- Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and the Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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- Department of Food Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
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PrfA-like transcription factor gene lmo0753 contributes to L-rhamnose utilization in Listeria monocytogenes strains associated with human food-borne infections. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:5584-92. [PMID: 23835178 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01812-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes is a food-borne bacterial pathogen and the causative agent of human and animal listeriosis. Among the three major genetic lineages of L. monocytogenes (i.e., LI, LII, and LIII), LI and LII are predominantly associated with food-borne listeriosis outbreaks, whereas LIII is rarely implicated in human infections. In a previous study, we identified a Crp/Fnr family transcription factor gene, lmo0753, that was highly specific to outbreak-associated LI and LII but absent from LIII. Lmo0753 shares two conserved functional domains, including a DNA binding domain, with the well-characterized master virulence regulator PrfA in L. monocytogenes. In this study, we constructed lmo0753 deletion and complementation mutants in two fully sequenced L. monocytogenes LII strains, 10403S and EGDe, and compared the flagellar motility, phospholipase C production, hemolysis, and intracellular growth of the mutants and their respective wild types. Our results suggested that lmo0753 plays a role in hemolytic activity in both EGDe and 10403S. More interestingly, we found that deletion of lmo0753 led to the loss of l-rhamnose utilization in EGDe, but not in 10403S. RNA-seq analysis of EGDe Δ0753 incubated in phenol red medium containing l-rhamnose as the sole carbon source revealed that 126 (4.5%) and 546 (19.5%) out of 2,798 genes in the EGDe genome were up- and downregulated more than 2-fold, respectively, compared to the wild-type strain. Genes related to biotin biosynthesis, general stress response, and rhamnose metabolism were shown to be differentially regulated. Findings from this study collectively suggested varied functional roles of lmo0753 in different LII L. monocytogenes strain backgrounds associated with human listeriosis outbreaks.
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Pinto D, São-José C, Santos MA, Chambel L. Characterization of two resuscitation promoting factors of Listeria monocytogenes. Microbiology (Reading) 2013; 159:1390-1401. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.067850-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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- Daniela Pinto
- Center for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics (BioFIG), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Center of Molecular Pathogenesis, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Center for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics (BioFIG), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Center for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics (BioFIG), Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Huang Y, Shi C, Yu S, Li K, Shi X. A putative MerR family regulator involved in biofilm formation in Listeria monocytogenes 4b G. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2013; 9:767-72. [PMID: 22870986 DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2011.1101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The capability of forming biofilm makes the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes more resistant to environmental stresses. To examine the mechanism of biofilm formation, L. monocytogenes transposon mutant strain GB8 with decreased ability to form biofilm was characterized in this study. Southern blot assay revealed a single copy of transposon in the GB8 chromosome, and the insertion site was identified by inverse polymerase chain reaction (IPCR). The expression of lm.G_1497 was found to be inactivated by the transposon insertion, and the gene was identical to gene LMOf2365_1497 in the sequenced strain L. monocytogenes strain 4b F2365, encoding a MerR family protein. The ability of producing biofilm was recovered in revertant GBR8. It was confirmed by quantitative real-time PCR that the transcription of the gene flanking lm.G_1497 was not affected by Tn917 insertion. These results suggested that lm.G_1497 was responsible for the positive regulation of biofilm formation in L. monocytogenes 4b G. Moreover, the failure of lm.G_1497 expression resulted in a decrease of the autolysis rate, while no effect on cell growth and motility in L. monocytogenes GB8, which might imply that the reduction in biofilm was caused by the difference in cell autolysis.
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- Yanyan Huang
- MOST-USDA Joint Research Center for Food Safety, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Ronholm J, Zhang CXY, Cao X, Lin M. SecA2 is not required for secretion of the surface autolysin IspC in Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b. J Basic Microbiol 2013; 54:1017-21. [PMID: 23712923 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201300007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2013] [Accepted: 04/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is one of several Gram-positive bacteria known to contain an auxiliary ATPase (SecA2) involved in the Sec secretion of a subset of proteins important to bacterial pathogenesis, including autolysins. It is not known if IspC, a novel surface-associated autolysin essential for full virulence of L. monocytogenes serotype 4b, is SecA2-dependent for secretion. By creating a secA2 gene deletion (ΔsecA2) mutant from the wild type (WT) L. monocytogenes serotype 4b strain, in combination with the proteomic analysis of surface proteins and those secreted into the medium from both the mutant and the WT, we confirmed previous findings that two autolysins (p60 and NamA) are SecA2-dependent for secretion. However, this approach did not identify IspC as one of the surface proteins affected by the SecA2 deletion. Further experiments with immunofluorescence microscopy and Western blotting indicated that IspC was well displayed on the surface of both the ΔsecA2 mutant and WT cells, while p60 was not, clearly indicating that the secretion of IspC is not attributed to the SecA2 pathway. This finding sets IspC apart from other autolysins involved in virulence, such as p60 and NamA, in that SecA2 is not required for IspC secretion.
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- Jennifer Ronholm
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory Fallowfield, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Machado H, Lourenço A, Carvalho F, Cabanes D, Kallipolitis BH, Brito L. The Tat pathway is prevalent in Listeria monocytogenes lineage II and is not required for infection and spread in host cells. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 23:209-18. [PMID: 23595063 DOI: 10.1159/000348245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne pathogenic bacterium, remains a serious public health concern due to its frequent occurrence in food products coupled with a high mortality rate. Bacterial pathogenicity depends greatly on the ability to secrete virulence factors to or beyond the bacterial cell surface. The Tat pathway, one of the secretion systems present in L. monocytogenes, was until now only investigated in silico. In L. monocytogenes strain EGDe two genes constitute this pathway, tatC(lmo0361) and tatA(lmo0362). Here we show that tatC and tatA are cotranscribed in a bicistronic- and growth-phase-dependent manner, being downregulated in the stationary phase. An EGDe tatAC mutant strain (EGDe ΔtatAC) was constructed, confirming that the Tat pathway is not essential for L.monocytogenes survival or biofilm-forming ability. When compared to the wild-type EGDe, deletion of tatAC did not decrease the virulence potential of EGDe ΔtatAC in HT-29 human epithelial cell line and even increased (p < 0.05) the virulence potential for mice. Moreover, we show that tat genes are prevalent in L. monocytogenes strains belonging to genetic lineage II and are generally absent from lineage I, which is more associated with human cases, thus excluding the possibility of using the Tat system as a target for novel antimicrobial compounds targeting L.monocytogenes.
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- Henrique Machado
- CBAA/DRAT, Laboratório de Microbiologia, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Pyne ME, Moo-Young M, Chung DA, Chou CP. Development of an electrotransformation protocol for genetic manipulation of Clostridium pasteurianum. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2013; 6:50. [PMID: 23570573 PMCID: PMC3658993 DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-6-50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/04/2013] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Reducing the production cost of, and increasing revenues from, industrial biofuels will greatly facilitate their proliferation and co-integration with fossil fuels. The cost of feedstock is the largest cost in most fermentation bioprocesses and therefore represents an important target for cost reduction. Meanwhile, the biorefinery concept advocates revenue growth through complete utilization of by-products generated during biofuel production. Taken together, the production of biofuels from low-cost crude glycerol, available in oversupply as a by-product of bioethanol production, in the form of thin stillage, and biodiesel production, embodies a remarkable opportunity to advance affordable biofuel development. However, few bacterial species possess the natural capacity to convert glycerol as a sole source of carbon and energy into value-added bioproducts. Of particular interest is the anaerobe Clostridium pasteurianum, the only microorganism known to convert glycerol alone directly into butanol, which currently holds immense promise as a high-energy biofuel and bulk chemical. Unfortunately, genetic and metabolic engineering of C. pasteurianum has been fundamentally impeded due to lack of an efficient method for deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) transfer. RESULTS This work reports the development of an electrotransformation protocol permitting high-level DNA transfer to C. pasteurianum ATCC 6013 together with accompanying selection markers and vector components. The CpaAI restriction-modification system was found to be a major barrier to DNA delivery into C. pasteurianum which we overcame by in vivo methylation of the recognition site (5'-CGCG-3') using the M.FnuDII methyltransferase. With proper selection of the replication origin and antibiotic-resistance marker, we initially electroporated methylated DNA into C. pasteurianum at a low efficiency of 2.4 × 101 transformants μg-1 DNA by utilizing conditions common to other clostridial electroporations. Systematic investigation of various parameters involved in the cell growth, washing and pulse delivery, and outgrowth phases of the electrotransformation procedure significantly elevated the electrotransformation efficiency, up to 7.5 × 104 transformants μg-1 DNA, an increase of approximately three order of magnitude. Key factors affecting the electrotransformation efficiency include cell-wall-weakening using glycine, ethanol-mediated membrane solubilization, field strength of the electric pulse, and sucrose osmoprotection. CONCLUSIONS C. pasteurianum ATCC 6013 can be electrotransformed at a high efficiency using appropriately methylated plasmid DNA. The electrotransformation method and tools reported here should promote extensive genetic manipulation and metabolic engineering of this biotechnologically important bacterium.
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- Michael E Pyne
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
- Centurion Biofuels, Corp., Rm. 5113 Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
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