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Yang Z, Wang H, Keebler R, Lovelace A, Chen HC, Kvitko B, Swingle B. Environmental alkalization suppresses deployment of virulence strategies in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000. J Bacteriol 2024; 206:e0008624. [PMID: 39445803 PMCID: PMC11580431 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00086-24] [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] [Received: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 10/05/2024] [Indexed: 10/25/2024] Open
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Plant pathogenic bacteria encounter a drastic increase in apoplastic pH during the early stages of plant immunity. The effects of alkalization on pathogen-host interactions have not been comprehensively characterized. Here, we used a global transcriptomic approach to assess the impact of environmental alkalization on Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in vitro. In addition to the Type 3 Secretion System, we found expression of genes encoding other virulence factors such as iron uptake and coronatine biosynthesis to be strongly affected by environmental alkalization. We also found that the activity of AlgU, an important regulator of virulence gene expression, was induced at pH 5.5 and suppressed at pH 7.8, which are pH levels that this pathogen would likely experience before and during pattern-triggered immunity, respectively. This pH-dependent control requires the presence of periplasmic proteases, AlgW and MucP, that function as part of the environmental sensing system that activates AlgU in specific conditions. This is the first example of pH-dependency of AlgU activity, suggesting a regulatory pathway model where pH affects the proteolysis-dependent activation of AlgU. These results contribute to deeper understanding of the role apoplastic pH has on host-pathogen interactions.IMPORTANCEPlant pathogenic bacteria, like Pseudomonas syringae, encounter many environmental changes including oxidative stress and alkalization during plant immunity, but the ecological effects of the individual responses are not well understood. In this study, we found that transcription of many previously characterized virulence factors in P. syringae pv. tomato DC3000 is downregulated by the level of environmental alkalization these bacteria encounter during the early stages of plant immune activation. We also report for the first time the sigma factor AlgU is post-translationally activated by low environmental pH through its natural activation pathway, which partially accounts for the expression Type 3 Secretion System virulence genes at acidic pH. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of extracellular pH on global regulation of virulence-related gene transcription in plant pathogenic bacteria.
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- Zichu Yang
- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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- The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- The Plant Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
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- Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Unit, Robert W. Holley Center, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Chatterjee R, Nair AV, Singh A, Mehta N, Setty SRG, Chakravortty D. Syntaxin 3 SPI-2 dependent crosstalk facilitates the division of Salmonella containing vacuole. Traffic 2023; 24:270-283. [PMID: 37114883 DOI: 10.1111/tra.12887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Intracellular membrane fusion is mediated by membrane-bridging complexes of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs). SNARE proteins are one of the key players in vesicular transport. Several reports shed light on intracellular bacteria modulating host SNARE machinery to establish infection successfully. The critical SNAREs in macrophages responsible for phagosome maturation are Syntaxin 3 (STX3) and Syntaxin 4 (STX4). Reports also suggest that Salmonella actively modulates its vacuole membrane composition to escape lysosomal fusion. Salmonella containing vacuole (SCV) harbours recycling endosomal SNARE Syntaxin 12 (STX12). However, the role of host SNAREs in SCV biogenesis and pathogenesis remains unclear. Upon knockdown of STX3, we observed a reduction in bacterial proliferation, which is concomitantly restored upon the overexpression of STX3. Live-cell imaging of Salmonella-infected cells showed that STX3 localises to the SCV membranes and thus might help in the fusion of SCV with intracellular vesicles to acquire membrane for its division. We also found the interaction STX3-SCV was abrogated when we infected with SPI-2 encoded Type 3 secretion system (T3SS) apparatus mutant (STM ∆ssaV) but not with SPI-1 encoded T3SS apparatus mutant (STM ∆invC). These observations were also consistent in the mice model of Salmonella infection. Together, these results shed light on the effector molecules secreted through T3SS encoded by SPI-2, possibly involved in interaction with host SNARE STX3, which is essential to maintain the division of Salmonella in SCV and help to maintain a single bacterium per vacuole.
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- Ritika Chatterjee
- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
- School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
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Bcr4 Is a Chaperone for the Inner Rod Protein in the Bordetella Type III Secretion System. Microbiol Spectr 2022; 10:e0144322. [PMID: 36040173 PMCID: PMC9603008 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01443-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Bordetella bronchiseptica injects virulence proteins called effectors into host cells via a type III secretion system (T3SS) conserved among many Gram-negative bacteria. Small proteins called chaperones are required to stabilize some T3SS components or localize them to the T3SS machinery. In a previous study, we identified a chaperone-like protein named Bcr4 that regulates T3SS activity in B. bronchiseptica. Bcr4 does not show strong sequence similarity to well-studied T3SS proteins of other bacteria, and its function remains to be elucidated. Here, we investigated the mechanism by which Bcr4 controls T3SS activity. A pulldown assay revealed that Bcr4 interacts with BscI, based on its homology to other bacterial proteins, to be an inner rod protein of the T3SS machinery. An additional pulldown assay using truncated Bcr4 derivatives and secretion profiles of B. bronchiseptica producing truncated Bcr4 derivatives showed that the Bcr4 C-terminal region is necessary for the interaction with BscI and activation of the T3SS. Moreover, the deletion of BscI abolished the secretion of type III secreted proteins from B. bronchiseptica and the translocation of a cytotoxic effector into cultured mammalian cells. Finally, we show that BscI is unstable in the absence of Bcr4. These results suggest that Bcr4 supports the construction of the T3SS machinery by stabilizing BscI. This is the first demonstration of a chaperone for the T3SS inner rod protein among the virulence bacteria possessing the T3SS. IMPORTANCE The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a needle-like complex that projects outward from bacterial cells. Bordetella bronchiseptica uses the T3SS to inject virulence proteins into host cells. Our previous study reported that a protein named Bcr4 is essential for the secretion of virulence proteins from B. bronchiseptica bacterial cells and delivery through the T3SS. Because other bacteria lack a Bcr4 homologue, the function of Bcr4 has not been elucidated. In this study, we discovered that Bcr4 interacts with BscI, a component of the T3SS machinery. We show that a B. bronchiseptica BscI-deficient strain was unable to secrete type III secreted proteins. Furthermore, in a B. bronchiseptica strain that overproduces T3SS component proteins, Bcr4 is required to maintain BscI in bacterial cells. These results suggest that Bcr4 stabilizes BscI to allow construction of the T3SS in B. bronchiseptica.
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Bilkei‐Gorzo O, Heunis T, Marín‐Rubio JL, Cianfanelli FR, Raymond BBA, Inns J, Fabrikova D, Peltier J, Oakley F, Schmid R, Härtlova A, Trost M. The E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF115 regulates phagosome maturation and host response to bacterial infection. EMBO J 2022; 41:e108970. [PMID: 36281581 PMCID: PMC9713710 DOI: 10.15252/embj.2021108970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 10/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Phagocytosis is a key process in innate immunity and homeostasis. After particle uptake, newly formed phagosomes mature by acquisition of endolysosomal enzymes. Macrophage activation by interferon gamma (IFN-γ) increases microbicidal activity, but delays phagosomal maturation by an unknown mechanism. Using quantitative proteomics, we show that phagosomal proteins harbour high levels of typical and atypical ubiquitin chain types. Moreover, phagosomal ubiquitylation of vesicle trafficking proteins is substantially enhanced upon IFN-γ activation of macrophages, suggesting a role in regulating phagosomal functions. We identified the E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF115, which is enriched on phagosomes of IFN-γ activated macrophages, as an important regulator of phagosomal maturation. Loss of RNF115 protein or ligase activity enhanced phagosomal maturation and increased cytokine responses to bacterial infection, suggesting that both innate immune signalling from the phagosome and phagolysosomal trafficking are controlled through ubiquitylation. RNF115 knock-out mice show less tissue damage in response to S. aureus infection, indicating a role of RNF115 in inflammatory responses in vivo. In conclusion, RNF115 and phagosomal ubiquitylation are important regulators of innate immune functions during bacterial infections.
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- Orsolya Bilkei‐Gorzo
- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Institute of BiomedicineUniversity of GothenburgGothenburgSweden,MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation UnitUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK
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- Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Institute of BiomedicineUniversity of GothenburgGothenburgSweden
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation UnitUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK,Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK,Newcastle Fibrosis Research GroupNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical BiologyUniversity of LeicesterLeicesterUK,Department of Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of LeicesterLeicesterUK
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- Wallenberg Centre for Molecular and Translational Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Institute of BiomedicineUniversity of GothenburgGothenburgSweden,MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation UnitUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK,Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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- MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation UnitUniversity of DundeeDundeeUK,Biosciences InstituteNewcastle UniversityNewcastle upon TyneUK
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Acevedo-Villanueva KY, Akerele GO, Al Hakeem WG, Renu S, Shanmugasundaram R, Selvaraj RK. A Novel Approach against Salmonella: A Review of Polymeric Nanoparticle Vaccines for Broilers and Layers. Vaccines (Basel) 2021; 9:vaccines9091041. [PMID: 34579278 PMCID: PMC8470574 DOI: 10.3390/vaccines9091041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 09/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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This work discusses the present-day limitations of current commercial Salmonella vaccines for broilers and layers and explores a novel approach towards poultry vaccination using biodegradable nanoparticle vaccines against Salmonella. With the increasing global population and poultry production and consumption, Salmonella is a potential health risk for humans. The oral administration of killed or inactivated vaccines would provide a better alternative to the currently commercially available Salmonella vaccines for poultry. However, there are currently no commercial oral killed-vaccines against Salmonella for use in broilers or layers. There is a need for novel and effective interventions in the poultry industry. Polymeric nanoparticles could give way to an effective mass-administered mucosal vaccination method for Salmonella. The scope of this work is limited to polymeric nanoparticles against Salmonella for use in broilers and layers. This review is based on the information available at the time of the investigation.
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- Keila Y. Acevedo-Villanueva
- Department of Poultry Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; (K.Y.A.-V.); (G.O.A.); (W.G.A.H.)
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- Department of Poultry Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; (K.Y.A.-V.); (G.O.A.); (W.G.A.H.)
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- Department of Poultry Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; (K.Y.A.-V.); (G.O.A.); (W.G.A.H.)
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- Upkara Inc., 45145 W 12 Mile Rd, Novi, MI 48377, USA;
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- Department of Poultry Science, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; (K.Y.A.-V.); (G.O.A.); (W.G.A.H.)
- Correspondence:
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Matthews-Palmer TRS, Gonzalez-Rodriguez N, Calcraft T, Lagercrantz S, Zachs T, Yu XJ, Grabe GJ, Holden DW, Nans A, Rosenthal PB, Rouse SL, Beeby M. Structure of the cytoplasmic domain of SctV (SsaV) from the Salmonella SPI-2 injectisome and implications for a pH sensing mechanism. J Struct Biol 2021; 213:107729. [PMID: 33774138 PMCID: PMC8223533 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2021.107729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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CryoEM of a full-length type III secretion system SctV resolves cytoplasmic but not transmembrane domains. MD simulations show SctV protomers flexibly hinge. Acidification expands the SctV ring by altering interprotomer interactions.
Bacterial type III secretion systems assemble the axial structures of both injectisomes and flagella. Injectisome type III secretion systems subsequently secrete effector proteins through their hollow needle into a host, requiring co-ordination. In the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium SPI-2 injectisome, this switch is triggered by sensing the neutral pH of the host cytoplasm. Central to specificity switching is a nonameric SctV protein with an N-terminal transmembrane domain and a toroidal C-terminal cytoplasmic domain. A ‘gatekeeper’ complex interacts with the SctV cytoplasmic domain in a pH dependent manner, facilitating translocon secretion while repressing effector secretion through a poorly understood mechanism. To better understand the role of SctV in SPI-2 translocon-effector specificity switching, we purified full-length SctV and determined its toroidal cytoplasmic region’s structure using cryo-EM. Structural comparisons and molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the cytoplasmic torus is stabilized by its core subdomain 3, about which subdomains 2 and 4 hinge, varying the flexible outside cleft implicated in gatekeeper and substrate binding. In light of patterns of surface conservation, deprotonation, and structural motion, the location of previously identified critical residues suggest that gatekeeper binds a cleft buried between neighboring subdomain 4s. Simulations suggest that a local pH change from 5 to 7.2 stabilizes the subdomain 3 hinge and narrows the central aperture of the nonameric torus. Our results are consistent with a model of local pH sensing at SctV, where pH-dependent dynamics of SctV cytoplasmic domain affect binding of gatekeeper complex.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; Structural Biology of Cells and Viruses Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- MRC Centre for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Structural Biology of Cells and Viruses Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Structural Biology of Cells and Viruses Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
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Wimmi S, Balinovic A, Jeckel H, Selinger L, Lampaki D, Eisemann E, Meuskens I, Linke D, Drescher K, Endesfelder U, Diepold A. Dynamic relocalization of cytosolic type III secretion system components prevents premature protein secretion at low external pH. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1625. [PMID: 33712575 PMCID: PMC7954860 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21863-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Many bacterial pathogens use a type III secretion system (T3SS) to manipulate host cells. Protein secretion by the T3SS injectisome is activated upon contact to any host cell, and it has been unclear how premature secretion is prevented during infection. Here we report that in the gastrointestinal pathogens Yersinia enterocolitica and Shigella flexneri, cytosolic injectisome components are temporarily released from the proximal interface of the injectisome at low external pH, preventing protein secretion in acidic environments, such as the stomach. We show that in Yersinia enterocolitica, low external pH is detected in the periplasm and leads to a partial dissociation of the inner membrane injectisome component SctD, which in turn causes the dissociation of the cytosolic T3SS components. This effect is reversed upon restoration of neutral pH, allowing a fast activation of the T3SS at the native target regions within the host. These findings indicate that the cytosolic components form an adaptive regulatory interface, which regulates T3SS activity in response to environmental conditions.
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- Stephan Wimmi
- Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie und Epigenetik, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
- Department of Physics, Mellon College of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
- SYNMIKRO, LOEWE Center for Synthetic Microbiology, Marburg, Germany.
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Milne-Davies B, Wimmi S, Diepold A. Adaptivity and dynamics in type III secretion systems. Mol Microbiol 2020; 115:395-411. [PMID: 33251695 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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The type III secretion system is the common core of two bacterial molecular machines: the flagellum and the injectisome. The flagellum is the most widely distributed prokaryotic locomotion device, whereas the injectisome is a syringe-like apparatus for inter-kingdom protein translocation, which is essential for virulence in important human pathogens. The successful concept of the type III secretion system has been modified for different bacterial needs. It can be adapted to changing conditions, and was found to be a dynamic complex constantly exchanging components. In this review, we highlight the flexibility, adaptivity, and dynamic nature of the type III secretion system.
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- Bailey Milne-Davies
- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Ecophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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Valenzuela C, Gil M, Urrutia ÍM, Sabag A, Enninga J, Santiviago CA. SopB- and SifA-dependent shaping of the Salmonella-containing vacuole proteome in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Cell Microbiol 2020; 23:e13263. [PMID: 32945061 DOI: 10.1111/cmi.13263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The ability of Salmonella to survive and replicate within mammalian host cells involves the generation of a membranous compartment known as the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV). Salmonella employs a number of effector proteins that are injected into host cells for SCV formation using its type-3 secretion systems encoded in SPI-1 and SPI-2 (T3SS-1 and T3SS-2, respectively). Recently, we reported that S. Typhimurium requires T3SS-1 and T3SS-2 to survive in the model amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Despite these findings, the involved effector proteins have not been identified yet. Therefore, we evaluated the role of two major S. Typhimurium effectors SopB and SifA during D. discoideum intracellular niche formation. First, we established that S. Typhimurium resides in a vacuolar compartment within D. discoideum. Next, we isolated SCVs from amoebae infected with wild type or the ΔsopB and ΔsifA mutant strains of S. Typhimurium, and we characterised the composition of this compartment by quantitative proteomics. This comparative analysis suggests that S. Typhimurium requires SopB and SifA to modify the SCV proteome in order to generate a suitable intracellular niche in D. discoideum. Accordingly, we observed that SopB and SifA are needed for intracellular survival of S. Typhimurium in this organism. Thus, our results provide insight into the mechanisms employed by Salmonella to survive intracellularly in phagocytic amoebae.
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- Camila Valenzuela
- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.,Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,CNRS UMR3691, Paris, France
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- Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,CNRS UMR3691, Paris, France
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.,CNRS UMR3691, Paris, France
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- Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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Han S, Ferelli AMC, Lin SS, Micallef SA. Stress response, amino acid biosynthesis and pathogenesis genes expressed in Salmonella enterica colonizing tomato shoot and root surfaces. Heliyon 2020; 6:e04952. [PMID: 33024855 PMCID: PMC7527575 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2020] [Revised: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Salmonella enterica can colonize all parts of the tomato plant. Tomatoes have been frequently implicated in salmonellosis outbreaks. In agricultural settings, Salmonella must overcome stress, nutritional and competition barriers to become established on plant surfaces. Knowledge of the genetic mechanisms underlying Salmonella-plant associations is limited, especially when growing epiphytically. A genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of Salmonella Typhimurium (SeT) was conducted with RNA-Seq to elucidate strategies for epiphytic growth on live, intact tomato shoot and root surfaces. Six plasmid-encoded and 123 chromosomal genes were significantly (using Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted p-values) up-regulated; 54 and 110 detected in SeT on shoots and roots, respectively, with 35 common to both. Key signals included NsrR regulon genes needed to mitigate nitrosative stress, oxidative stress genes and host adaptation genes, including environmental stress, heat shock and acid-inducible genes. Several amino acid biosynthesis genes and genes indicative of sulphur metabolism and anaerobic respiration were up-regulated. Some Type III secretion system (T3SS) effector protein genes and their chaperones from pathogenicity island-2 were expressed mostly in SeT on roots. Gene expression in SeT was validated against SeT and also the tomato outbreak strain Salmonella Newport with a high correlation (R 2 = 0.813 and 0.874, respectively; both p < 0.001). Oxidative and nitrosative stress response genes, T3SS2 genes and amino acid biosynthesis may be needed for Salmonella to successfully colonize tomato shoot and root surfaces.
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- Sanghyun Han
- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Institute of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.,Centre for Food Safety and Security Systems, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Wang Y, Cai Y, Zhang J, Liu D, Gong X, Pan Z, Geng S, Jiao X. Controversy Surrounding the Function of SpiC Protein in Salmonella: An Overview. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1784. [PMID: 31440219 PMCID: PMC6693482 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Salmonella is an important pathogenic microorganism that can infect humans and animals and has been studied globally as a model microorganism for its pathogenesis. The SpiC protein of T3SS2 is a significant factor that has been studied for almost 20 years, but to date, the function/effect of SpiC in the pathogenesis of Salmonella has not been completely understood. There is controversy over the functions of SpiC protein in the literature. Thus, an overview of the literature on SpiC protein is provided here which highlights expression features of SpiC protein and its various functions and effect.
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- Yaonan Wang
- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Research and Development Center, State Key Laboratory of Genetically Engineered Veterinary Vaccines, Yebio Bioengineering Co., Ltd of Qingdao, Qingdao, China
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- Research and Development Center, State Key Laboratory of Genetically Engineered Veterinary Vaccines, Yebio Bioengineering Co., Ltd of Qingdao, Qingdao, China
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- College of Bioscience and Biotechnology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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Natarajan J, Singh N, Rapaport D. Assembly and targeting of secretins in the bacterial outer membrane. Int J Med Microbiol 2019; 309:151322. [PMID: 31262642 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2019.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Gram-negative bacteria, secretion of toxins ensure the survival of the bacterium. Such toxins are secreted by sophisticated multiprotein systems. The most conserved part in some of these secretion systems are components, called secretins, which form the outer membrane ring in these systems. Recent structural studies shed some light on the oligomeric organization of secretins. However, the mechanisms by which these proteins are targeted to the outer membrane and assemble there into ring structures are still not fully understood. This review discusses the various species-specific targeting and assembly pathways that are taken by secretins in order to form their functional oligomers.
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- Janani Natarajan
- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT), Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str.6, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 4, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Lee HS, Lee S, Kim JS, Lee HR, Shin HC, Lee MS, Jin KS, Kim CH, Ku B, Ryu CM, Kim SJ. Structural and Physiological Exploration of Salmonella Typhi YfdX Uncovers Its Dual Function in Bacterial Antibiotic Stress and Virulence. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3329. [PMID: 30692978 PMCID: PMC6339873 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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YfdX is a prokaryotic protein encoded by several pathogenic bacteria including Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, which causes one of the most fatal infectious diseases, typhoid fever. YfdX is a product of the yfdXWUVE operon and is known to be under the control of EvgA, a regulator protein controlling the expression of several proteins involved in response to environmental stress, in Escherichia coli. Nevertheless, unlike other proteins encoded by the same operon, the structural and physiological aspects of YfdX have been poorly characterized. Here, we identified a previously unknown pH-dependent stoichiometric conversion of S. Typhi YfdX between dimeric and tetrameric states; this conversion was further analyzed via determining its structure by X-ray crystallography at high resolution and by small-angle X-ray scattering in a solution state and via structure-based mutant studies. Biologically, YfdX was proven to be critically involved in Salmonella susceptibility to two β-lactam antibiotics, penicillin G and carbenicillin, as bacterial growth significantly impaired by its deficiency upon treatment with each of the two antibiotics was recovered by chromosomal complementation. Furthermore, by using Galleria mellonella larvae as an in vivo model of Salmonella infection, we demonstrated that Salmonella virulence was remarkably enhanced by YfdX deficiency, which was complemented by a transient expression of the wild-type or dimeric mutant but not by that of the monomeric mutant. The present study work provides direct evidence regarding the participation of YfdX in Salmonella antibiotic susceptibility and in the modulation of bacterial virulence, providing a new insight into this pathogen's strategies for survival and growth.
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- Hye Seon Lee
- Disease Target Structure Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Infectious Disease Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Infectious Disease Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Infectious Disease Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Disease Target Structure Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Infectious Disease Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
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- Department of Biology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Disease Target Structure Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Infectious Disease Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
- Department of Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology KRIBB School, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Disease Target Structure Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, South Korea
- Department of Bioscience, University of Science and Technology KRIBB School, Daejeon, South Korea
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Yang P, Oliveira da Rocha Calixto R, van Elsas JD. Migration of Paraburkholderia terrae BS001 Along Old Fungal Hyphae in Soil at Various pH Levels. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2018; 76:443-452. [PMID: 29322230 PMCID: PMC6061471 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-017-1137-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 12/27/2017] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The movement of bacterial cells along with fungal hyphae in soil (the mycosphere) has been reported in several previous studies. However, how local soil conditions affect bacterial migration direction in the mycosphere has not been extensively studied. Here, we investigated the influence of two soil parameters, pH and soil moisture content, on the migration, and survival, of Paraburkholderia terrae BS001 in the mycosphere of Lyophyllum sp. strain Karsten in microcosms containing a loamy sand soil. The data showed that bacterial movement along the hyphal networks took place in both the "forward" and the "backward" directions. Low soil pH strongly restricted bacterial survival, as well as dispersal in both directions, in the mycosphere. The backward movement was weakly correlated with the amount of fungal tissue formed in the old mycelial network. The initial soil moisture content, set at 12 versus 17% (corresponding to 42 and 60% of the soil water holding capacity), also significantly affected the bacterial dispersal along the fungal hyphae. Overall, the presence of fungal hyphae was found to increase the soil pH (under conditions of acidity), which possibly exerted protective effects on the bacterial cells. Finally, we provide a refined model that describes the bacterial migration patterns with fungal hyphae based on the new findings in this study.
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- Pu Yang
- Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Microbial Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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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: 2.0] [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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Anderson CJ, Kendall MM. Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strategies for Host Adaptation. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1983. [PMID: 29075247 PMCID: PMC5643478 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 09/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Bacterial pathogens must sense and respond to newly encountered host environments to regulate the expression of critical virulence factors that allow for niche adaptation and successful colonization. Among bacterial pathogens, non-typhoidal serovars of Salmonella enterica, such as serovar Typhimurium (S. Tm), are a primary cause of foodborne illnesses that lead to hospitalizations and deaths worldwide. S. Tm causes acute inflammatory diarrhea that can progress to invasive systemic disease in susceptible patients. The gastrointestinal tract and intramacrophage environments are two critically important niches during S. Tm infection, and each presents unique challenges to limit S. Tm growth. The intestinal tract is home to billions of commensal microbes, termed the microbiota, which limits the amount of available nutrients for invading pathogens such as S. Tm. Therefore, S. Tm encodes strategies to manipulate the commensal population and side-step this nutritional competition. During subsequent stages of disease, S. Tm resists host immune cell mechanisms of killing. Host cells use antimicrobial peptides, acidification of vacuoles, and nutrient limitation to kill phagocytosed microbes, and yet S. Tm is able to subvert these defense systems. In this review, we discuss recently described molecular mechanisms that S. Tm uses to outcompete the resident microbiota within the gastrointestinal tract. S. Tm directly eliminates close competitors via bacterial cell-to-cell contact as well as by stimulating a host immune response to eliminate specific members of the microbiota. Additionally, S. Tm tightly regulates the expression of key virulence factors that enable S. Tm to withstand host immune defenses within macrophages. Additionally, we highlight the chemical and physical signals that S. Tm senses as cues to adapt to each of these environments. These strategies ultimately allow S. Tm to successfully adapt to these two disparate host environments. It is critical to better understand bacterial adaptation strategies because disruption of these pathways and mechanisms, especially those shared by multiple pathogens, may provide novel therapeutic intervention strategies.
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- Christopher J Anderson
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine,, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine,, Charlottesville, VA, United States
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Diepold A, Armitage JP. Type III secretion systems: the bacterial flagellum and the injectisome. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2016; 370:rstb.2015.0020. [PMID: 26370933 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The flagellum and the injectisome are two of the most complex and fascinating bacterial nanomachines. At their core, they share a type III secretion system (T3SS), a transmembrane export complex that forms the extracellular appendages, the flagellar filament and the injectisome needle. Recent advances, combining structural biology, cryo-electron tomography, molecular genetics, in vivo imaging, bioinformatics and biophysics, have greatly increased our understanding of the T3SS, especially the structure of its transmembrane and cytosolic components, the transcriptional, post-transcriptional and functional regulation and the remarkable adaptivity of the system. This review aims to integrate these new findings into our current knowledge of the evolution, function, regulation and dynamics of the T3SS, and to highlight commonalities and differences between the two systems, as well as their potential applications.
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- Andreas Diepold
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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Schulte M, Hensel M. Models of intestinal infection by Salmonella enterica: introduction of a new neonate mouse model. F1000Res 2016; 5. [PMID: 27408697 PMCID: PMC4926732 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8468.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is a foodborne pathogen causing inflammatory disease in the intestine following diarrhea and is responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide. Many
in vitro investigations using cell culture models are available, but these do not represent the real natural environment present in the intestine of infected hosts. Several
in vivo animal models have been used to study the host-pathogen interaction and to unravel the immune responses and cellular processes occurring during infection. An animal model for
Salmonella-induced intestinal inflammation relies on the pretreatment of mice with streptomycin. This model is of great importance but still shows limitations to investigate the host-pathogen interaction in the small intestine
in vivo. Here, we review the use of mouse models for
Salmonella infections and focus on a new small animal model using 1-day-old neonate mice. The neonate model enables researchers to observe infection of both the small and large intestine, thereby offering perspectives for new experimental approaches, as well as to analyze the
Salmonella-enterocyte interaction in the small intestine
in vivo.
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- Marc Schulte
- Department of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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Ribet D, Cossart P. How bacterial pathogens colonize their hosts and invade deeper tissues. Microbes Infect 2015; 17:173-83. [PMID: 25637951 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 474] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 01/18/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Bacterial pathogens have evolved a wide range of strategies to colonize and invade human organs, despite the presence of multiple host defense mechanisms. In this review, we will describe how pathogenic bacteria can adhere and multiply at the surface of host cells, how some bacteria can enter and proliferate inside these cells, and finally how pathogens may cross epithelial or endothelial host barriers and get access to internal tissues, leading to severe diseases in humans.
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- David Ribet
- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Infection, F-75015 Paris, France; INSERM, U604, F-75015 Paris, France; INRA, USC2020, F-75015 Paris, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Département de Biologie Cellulaire et Infection, F-75015 Paris, France; INSERM, U604, F-75015 Paris, France; INRA, USC2020, F-75015 Paris, France.
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Bueno SM, Riquelme S, Riedel CA, Kalergis AM. Mechanisms used by virulent Salmonella to impair dendritic cell function and evade adaptive immunity. Immunology 2012; 137:28-36. [PMID: 22703384 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2012.03614.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Innate and adaptive immunity are inter-related by dendritic cells (DCs), which directly recognize bacteria through the binding of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) to specialized receptors on their surface. After capturing and degrading bacteria, DCs present their antigens as small peptides bound to MHC molecules and prime naive bacteria-specific T cells. In response to PAMP recognition DCs undergo maturation, which is a phenotypic change that increases their immunogenicity and promotes the activation of naive T cells. As a result, a specific immune response that targets bacteria-derived antigens is initiated. Therefore, the characterization of DC-bacteria interactions is important to understand the mechanisms used by virulent bacteria to avoid adaptive immunity. Furthermore, any impairment of DC function might contribute to bacterial survival and dissemination inside the host. An example of a bacterial pathogen capable of interfering with DC function is Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium). Virulent strains of this bacterium are able to differentially modulate the entrance to DCs, avoid lysosomal degradation and prevent antigen presentation on MHC molecules. These features of virulent S. Typhimurium are controlled by virulence proteins, which are encoded by pathogenicity islands. Modulation of DC functions by these gene products is supported by several studies showing that pathogenesis might depend on this attribute of virulent S. Typhimurium. Here we discuss some of the recent data reported by the literature showing that several virulence proteins from Salmonella are required to modulate DC function and the activation of host adaptive immunity.
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- Susan M Bueno
- Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Departamento de Genetica Molecular y Microbiologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Protein export according to schedule: architecture, assembly, and regulation of type III secretion systems from plant- and animal-pathogenic bacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2012; 76:262-310. [PMID: 22688814 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.05017-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 312] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Flagellar and translocation-associated type III secretion (T3S) systems are present in most gram-negative plant- and animal-pathogenic bacteria and are often essential for bacterial motility or pathogenicity. The architectures of the complex membrane-spanning secretion apparatuses of both systems are similar, but they are associated with different extracellular appendages, including the flagellar hook and filament or the needle/pilus structures of translocation-associated T3S systems. The needle/pilus is connected to a bacterial translocon that is inserted into the host plasma membrane and mediates the transkingdom transport of bacterial effector proteins into eukaryotic cells. During the last 3 to 5 years, significant progress has been made in the characterization of membrane-associated core components and extracellular structures of T3S systems. Furthermore, transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulators that control T3S gene expression and substrate specificity have been described. Given the architecture of the T3S system, it is assumed that extracellular components of the secretion apparatus are secreted prior to effector proteins, suggesting that there is a hierarchy in T3S. The aim of this review is to summarize our current knowledge of T3S system components and associated control proteins from both plant- and animal-pathogenic bacteria.
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Allam US, Krishna MG, Sen M, Thomas R, Lahiri A, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D. Acidic pH induced STM1485 gene is essential for intracellular replication of Salmonella. Virulence 2012; 3:122-135. [PMID: 22460643 PMCID: PMC3396692 DOI: 10.4161/viru.19029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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During the course of infection, Salmonella has to face several potentially lethal environmental conditions, one such being acidic pH. The ability to sense and respond to the acidic pH is crucial for the survival and replication of Salmonella. The physiological role of one gene (STM1485) involved in this response, which is upregulated inside the host cells (by 90- to 113-fold) is functionally characterized in Salmonella pathogenesis. In vitro, the ΔSTM1485 neither exhibited any growth defect at pH 4.5 nor any difference in the acid tolerance response. The ΔSTM1485 was compromised in its capacity to proliferate inside the host cells and complementation with STM1485 gene restored its virulence. We further demonstrate that the surface translocation of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI-2) encoded translocon proteins, SseB and SseD were reduced in the ΔSTM1485. The increase in co-localization of this mutant with lysosomes was also observed. In addition, the ΔSTM1485 displayed significantly reduced competitive indices (CI) in spleen, liver and mesenteric lymph nodes in murine typhoid model when infected by intra-gastric route. Based on these results, we conclude that the acidic pH induced STM1485 gene is essential for intracellular replication of Salmonella.
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology; Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology; Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology; Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology; Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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- Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology; Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore, India
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Yoon H, Ansong C, McDermott JE, Gritsenko M, Smith RD, Heffron F, Adkins JN. Systems analysis of multiple regulator perturbations allows discovery of virulence factors in Salmonella. BMC SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2011; 5:100. [PMID: 21711513 PMCID: PMC3213010 DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2011] [Accepted: 06/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Systemic bacterial infections are highly regulated and complex processes that are orchestrated by numerous virulence factors. Genes that are coordinately controlled by the set of regulators required for systemic infection are potentially required for pathogenicity. RESULTS In this study we present a systems biology approach in which sample-matched multi-omic measurements of fourteen virulence-essential regulator mutants were coupled with computational network analysis to efficiently identify Salmonella virulence factors. Immunoblot experiments verified network-predicted virulence factors and a subset was determined to be secreted into the host cytoplasm, suggesting that they are virulence factors directly interacting with host cellular components. Two of these, SrfN and PagK2, were required for full mouse virulence and were shown to be translocated independent of either of the type III secretion systems in Salmonella or the type III injectisome-related flagellar mechanism. CONCLUSIONS Integrating multi-omic datasets from Salmonella mutants lacking virulence regulators not only identified novel virulence factors but also defined a new class of translocated effectors involved in pathogenesis. The success of this strategy at discovery of known and novel virulence factors suggests that the approach may have applicability for other bacterial pathogens.
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- Hyunjin Yoon
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
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- Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, 99352, USA
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Arpaia N, Godec J, Lau L, Sivick KE, McLaughlin LM, Jones MB, Dracheva T, Peterson SN, Monack DM, Barton GM. TLR signaling is required for Salmonella typhimurium virulence. Cell 2011; 144:675-88. [PMID: 21376231 PMCID: PMC3063366 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.01.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2010] [Revised: 12/06/2010] [Accepted: 01/10/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Toll-like receptors (TLRs) contribute to host resistance to microbial pathogens and can drive the evolution of virulence mechanisms. We have examined the relationship between host resistance and pathogen virulence using mice with a functional allele of the nramp-1 gene and lacking combinations of TLRs. Mice deficient in both TLR2 and TLR4 were highly susceptible to the intracellular bacterial pathogen Salmonella typhimurium, consistent with reduced innate immune function. However, mice lacking additional TLRs involved in S. typhimurium recognition were less susceptible to infection. In these TLR-deficient cells, bacteria failed to upregulate Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) genes and did not form a replicative compartment. We demonstrate that TLR signaling enhances the rate of acidification of the Salmonella-containing phagosome, and inhibition of this acidification prevents SPI-2 induction. Our results indicate that S. typhimurium requires cues from the innate immune system to regulate virulence genes necessary for intracellular survival, growth, and systemic infection.
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- Nicholas Arpaia
- Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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- Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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- Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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- Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850 USA
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- Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850 USA
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- Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD 20850 USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Division of Immunology & Pathogenesis, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA
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Walthers D, Li Y, Liu Y, Anand G, Yan J, Kenney LJ. Salmonella enterica response regulator SsrB relieves H-NS silencing by displacing H-NS bound in polymerization mode and directly activates transcription. J Biol Chem 2010; 286:1895-902. [PMID: 21059643 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m110.164962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The response regulator SsrB activates expression of genes encoded within and outside of a pathogenicity island (SPI-2), which is required for systemic infection of Salmonella. SsrB binds upstream of the sifA, sifB, and sseJ effector genes and directly regulates transcription. SsrB also relieves gene silencing by the nucleoid protein H-NS. Single molecule experiments with magnetic tweezers demonstrated that SsrB displaces H-NS from DNA only when it is bound in a polymerization (stiffening) mode and not when H-NS is bound to DNA in the bridging mode. Thus, in contrast to previous views, the polymerization binding mode of H-NS is the relevant form for counter-silencing by SsrB. Our results reveal that response regulators can directly activate transcription and also relieve H-NS silencing. This study adds to the repertoire of mechanisms by which NarL/FixJ subfamily members regulate transcription. Because SsrB-dependent promoters are diversely organized, additional mechanisms of transcriptional activation at other loci are likely.
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- Don Walthers
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
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Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 expression negatively controlled by EIIANtr-SsrB interaction is required for Salmonella virulence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:20506-11. [PMID: 21059960 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000759107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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SsrA/SsrB is a primary two-component system that mediates the survival and replication of Salmonella within host cells. When activated, the SsrB response regulator directly promotes the transcription of multiple genes within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2). As expression of the SsrB protein is promoted by several transcription factors, including SsrB itself, the expression of SPI-2 genes can increase to undesirable levels under activating conditions. Here, we report that Salmonella can avoid the hyperactivation of SPI-2 genes by using ptsN-encoded EIIA(Ntr), a component of the nitrogen-metabolic phosphotransferase system. Under SPI-2-inducing conditions, the levels of SsrB-regulated gene transcription increased abnormally in a ptsN deletion mutant, whereas they decreased in a strain overexpressing EIIA(Ntr). We found that EIIA(Ntr) controls SPI-2 genes by acting on the SsrB protein at the posttranscriptional level. EIIA(Ntr) interacted directly with SsrB, which prevented the SsrB protein from binding to its target promoter. Finally, the Salmonella strain, either lacking the ptsN gene or overexpressing EIIA(Ntr), was unable to replicate within macrophages, and the ptsN deletion mutant was attenuated for virulence in mice. These results indicated that normal SPI-2 gene expression maintained by an EIIA(Ntr)-SsrB interaction is another determinant of Salmonella virulence.
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Collier RJ. Microbiology. Salmonella's safety catch. Science 2010; 328:981-2. [PMID: 20489009 DOI: 10.1126/science.1190758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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- R John Collier
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Yu XJ, McGourty K, Liu M, Unsworth KE, Holden DW. pH sensing by intracellular Salmonella induces effector translocation. Science 2010; 328:1040-3. [PMID: 20395475 PMCID: PMC6485629 DOI: 10.1126/science.1189000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Salmonella enterica is an important intracellular bacterial pathogen of humans and animals. It replicates within host-cell vacuoles by delivering virulence (effector) proteins through a vacuolar membrane pore made by the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) type III secretion system (T3SS). T3SS assembly follows vacuole acidification, but when bacteria are grown at low pH, effector secretion is negligible. We found that effector secretion was activated at low pH from mutant strains lacking a complex of SPI-2-encoded proteins SsaM, SpiC, and SsaL. Exposure of wild-type bacteria to pH 7.2 after growth at pH 5.0 caused dissociation and degradation of SsaM/SpiC/SsaL complexes and effector secretion. In infected cells, loss of the pH 7.2 signal through acidification of host-cell cytosol prevented complex degradation and effector translocation. Thus, intravacuolar Salmonella senses host cytosolic pH, resulting in the degradation of regulatory complex proteins and effector translocation.
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- Xiu-Jun Yu
- Section of Microbiology, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Section of Microbiology, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Section of Microbiology, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Section of Microbiology, Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College London, Armstrong Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Burkholderia thailandensis as a model system for the study of the virulence-associated type III secretion system of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Infect Immun 2008; 76:5402-11. [PMID: 18779342 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00626-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Burkholderia pseudomallei is a bacterial pathogen that causes a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms collectively known as melioidosis. Since it can be acquired by inhalation and is difficult to eradicate due to its resistance to a wide group of antibiotics and capacity for latency, work with B. pseudomallei requires a biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) containment facility. The bsa (Burkholderia secretion apparatus)-encoded type III secretion system (TTSS) has been shown to be required for its full virulence in a number of animal models. TTSSs are export devices found in a variety of gram-negative bacteria that translocate bacterial effector proteins across host cell membranes into the cytoplasm of host cells. Although the Bsa TTSS has been shown to play an important role in the ability of B. pseudomallei to survive and replicate in mammalian cells, escape from the endocytic vacuole, and spread from cell to cell, little is known about its effectors mediating these functions. Using bioinformatics, we identified homologs of several known TTSS effectors from other bacteria in the B. pseudomallei genome. In addition, we show that orthologs of these putative effectors exist in the genome of B. thailandensis, a closely related bacterium that is rarely pathogenic to humans. By generating a Bsa TTSS mutant B. thailandensis strain, we also demonstrated that the Bsa TTSS has similar functions in the two species. Therefore, we propose B. thailandensis as a useful BSL-1 model system to study the role of the Bsa TTSS during Burkholderia infection of mammalian cells and animals.
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Ansong C, Yoon H, Norbeck AD, Gustin JK, McDermott JE, Mottaz HM, Rue J, Adkins JN, Heffron F, Smith RD. Proteomics analysis of the causative agent of typhoid fever. J Proteome Res 2008; 7:546-57. [PMID: 18166006 DOI: 10.1021/pr070434u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Typhoid fever is a potentially fatal disease caused by the bacterial pathogen Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi ( S. typhi). S. typhi infection is a complex process that involves numerous bacterially encoded virulence determinants, and these are thought to confer both stringent human host specificity and a high mortality rate. In the present study, we used a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based proteomics strategy to investigate the proteome of logarithmic, stationary phase, and low pH/low magnesium (MgM) S. typhi cultures. This represents the first large-scale comprehensive characterization of the S. typhi proteome. Our analysis identified a total of 2066 S. typhi proteins. In an effort to identify putative S. typhi-specific virulence factors, we then compared our S. typhi results to those obtained in a previously published study of the S. typhimurium proteome under similar conditions ( Adkins, J. N. et al. Mol. Cell. Proteomics 2006, 5, 1450-1461 ). Comparative proteomics analysis of S. typhi strain Ty2 and S. typhimurium strain LT2 revealed a subset of highly expressed proteins unique to S. typhi that were exclusively detected under conditions that are thought to mimic the infective state in macrophage cells. These proteins included CdtB, HlyE, and gene products of t0142, t1108, t1109, t1476, and t1602. The differential expression of T1108, T1476, and HlyE was confirmed by Western blot analysis. When our observations are taken together with the current literature, they suggest that this subset of proteins may play a role in S. typhi pathogenesis and human host specificity.
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- Charles Ansong
- Biological Sciences Division, and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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Walthers D, Carroll RK, Navarre WW, Libby SJ, Fang FC, Kenney LJ. The response regulator SsrB activates expression of diverse Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 promoters and counters silencing by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS. Mol Microbiol 2007; 65:477-93. [PMID: 17630976 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05800.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The two-component system SsrA-SsrB activates expression of a type III secretion system required for replication in macrophages and systemic infection in mice. Here we characterize the SsrB-dependent regulation of genes within Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2). Primer extension and DNase I footprinting identified multiple SsrB-regulated promoters within SPI-2 located upstream of ssaB, sseA, ssaG and ssaM. We previously demonstrated that ssrA and ssrB transcription is uncoupled. Overexpression of SsrB in the absence of its cognate kinase, SsrA, is sufficient to activate SPI-2 transcription. Because SsrB requires phosphorylation to relieve inhibitory contacts that occlude its DNA-binding domain, additional components must phosphorylate SsrB. SPI-2 promoters examined in single copy were highly SsrB-dependent, activated during growth in macrophages and induced by acidic pH. The nucleoid structuring protein H-NS represses horizontally acquired genes; we confirmed that H-NS is a negative regulator of SPI-2 gene expression. In the absence of H-NS, the requirement for SsrB in activating SPI-2 genes is substantially reduced, suggesting a role for SsrB in countering H-NS silencing. SsrB activates transcription of multiple operons within SPI-2 by binding to degenerate DNA targets at diversely organized promoters. SsrB appears to possess dual activities to promote SPI-2 gene expression: activation of transcription and relief of H-NS-mediated repression.
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- Don Walthers
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 835 S. Wolcott Ave M/C 790, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Drecktrah D, Knodler LA, Howe D, Steele-Mortimer O. Salmonella trafficking is defined by continuous dynamic interactions with the endolysosomal system. Traffic 2007; 8:212-25. [PMID: 17233756 PMCID: PMC2063589 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2006.00529.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Following invasion of non-phagocytic host cells, Salmonella enterica survives and replicates within a phagosome-like compartment known as the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV). It is now well established that SCV biogenesis, like phagosome biogenesis, involves sequential interactions with the endocytic pathway. However, Salmonella is believed to limit these interactions and, in particular, to avoid fusion of terminal lysosomes with the SCV. In this study, we reassessed this process using a high-resolution live-cell imaging approach and found an unanticipated level of interaction between the SCV and the endocytic pathway. Direct interactions, in which late endosomal/lysosomal content was transferred to SCVs, were detected within 30 min of invasion and continued for several hours. Mechanistically, these interactions were very similar to phagosome–lysosome fusion because they were accompanied by rapid acidification of the SCV, could be blocked by chemical perturbation of microtubules or vacuolar acidification and involved the small GTPase Rab7. In comparison with vacuoles containing internalized Escherichia coli or heat-killed Salmonella, SCVs did show some delay of fusion and acidification, although, this appeared to be independent of either type III secretion system. These results provide compelling evidence that inhibition of SCV–lysosome fusion is not the major determinant in establishment of the Salmonella replicative niche in epithelial cells.
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Adkins JN, Mottaz HM, Norbeck AD, Gustin JK, Rue J, Clauss TRW, Purvine SO, Rodland KD, Heffron F, Smith RD. Analysis of the Salmonella typhimurium proteome through environmental response toward infectious conditions. Mol Cell Proteomics 2006; 5:1450-61. [PMID: 16684765 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m600139-mcp200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (also known as Salmonella typhimurium) is a facultative intracellular pathogen that causes approximately 8,000 reported cases of acute gastroenteritis and diarrhea each year in the United States. Although many successful physiological, biochemical, and genetic approaches have been taken to determine the key virulence determinants encoded by this organism, the sheer number of uncharacterized reading frames observed within the S. enterica genome suggests that many more virulence factors remain to be discovered. We used a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based "bottom-up" proteomic approach to generate a more complete picture of the gene products that S. typhimurium synthesizes under typical laboratory conditions as well as in culture media that are known to induce expression of virulence genes. When grown to logarithmic phase in rich medium, S. typhimurium is known to express many genes that are required for invasion of epithelial cells. Conversely stationary phase cultures of S. typhimurium express genes that are needed for both systemic infection and growth within infected macrophages. Lastly bacteria grown in an acidic, magnesium-depleted minimal medium (MgM) designed to mimic the phagocytic vacuole have been shown to up-regulate virulence gene expression. Initial comparisons of protein abundances from bacteria grown under each of these conditions indicated that the majority of proteins do not change significantly. However, we observed subsets of proteins whose expression was largely restricted to one of the three culture conditions. For example, cells grown in MgM had a higher abundance of Mg(2+) transport proteins than found in other growth conditions. A second more virulent S. typhimurium strain (14028) was also cultured under these same growth conditions, and the results were directly compared with those obtained for strain LT2. This comparison offered a unique opportunity to contrast protein populations in these closely related bacteria. Among a number of proteins displaying a higher abundance in strain 14028 were the products of the pdu operon, which encodes enzymes required for propanediol utilization. These pdu operon proteins were validated in culture and during macrophage infection. Our work provides further support for earlier observations that suggest pdu gene expression contributes to S. typhimurium pathogenesis.
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- Joshua N Adkins
- Biological Science Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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Desvaux M, Hébraud M, Henderson IR, Pallen MJ. Type III secretion: what's in a name? Trends Microbiol 2006; 14:157-60. [PMID: 16533600 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2006.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2005] [Revised: 02/01/2006] [Accepted: 02/22/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The term 'type III secretion' has seen widespread use. However, problems persist in nomenclature. We propose that the standard abbreviation for this kind of secretion should be 'T3S' and that 'type III secretion system' should be abbreviated to 'T3SS'. There is also a need for a new terminology to distinguish flagellar and non-flagellar type III secretion systems that reflects their common evolutionary ancestry but does not obscure their distinctive features. Finally, the use of the term 'type III secretion' to cover cytolysin-mediated translocation is to be deprecated because an authentic type III secretion system has already been described in gram-positive bacteria, namely the flagellar protein export apparatus.
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- Mickaël Desvaux
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre de Recherche de Clermont-Ferrand-Theix, UR 454, Unité de Microbiologie, F-63122 Saint-Genès Champanelle, France
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Coombes BK, Wickham ME, Lowden MJ, Brown NF, Finlay BB. Negative regulation of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 is required for contextual control of virulence during typhoid. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; 102:17460-5. [PMID: 16301528 PMCID: PMC1297660 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0505401102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Salmonella enterica relies on a type III secretion system encoded in Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI-2) to survive and replicate within macrophages at systemic sites during typhoid. SPI-2 virulence is induced upon entry into macrophages, but the mechanisms of SPI-2 gene control in vivo remain unclear, particularly with regard to negative regulators that control the contextual activation of SPI-2. Here, we identified and characterized YdgT as a negative modulator of the SPI-2 pathogenicity island and established that this negative regulation is central to systemic pathogenesis because ydgT mutants overexpressing typhoid virulence genes were ultimately attenuated during infection. ydgT mutants displayed a biphasic virulence phenotype during in vivo competitive infections that consisted of an early "gain-of-virulence" dependent on SPI-2 activation, followed by attenuation later in infection indicating that proper contextual regulation of SPI-2 by YdgT is necessary for full virulence during systemic colonization. These data suggest that overexpression of virulence-associated type III secretion genes can have an adverse effect on bacterial pathogenesis in vivo.
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- Brian K Coombes
- Michael Smith Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
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Drecktrah D, Knodler LA, Ireland R, Steele-Mortimer O. The Mechanism of Salmonella Entry Determines the Vacuolar Environment and Intracellular Gene Expression. Traffic 2005; 7:39-51. [PMID: 16445685 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00360.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Macrophages are an important intracellular niche for Salmonella particularly for systemic infection. The interaction of Salmonella with these cells is mediated by two type III secretion systems (TTSS), encoded on Salmonella pathogenicity islands 1 and 2 (SPI1, SPI2), which mediate distinct phases of the pathogen-host cell interaction. The SPI1 TTSS mediates invasion whereas the SPI2 TTSS is required for intramacrophage survival. Importantly, however, Salmonella can enter macrophages by either SPI1-dependent invasion or host cell-mediated phagocytosis. Here, we investigated how the mechanism of internalization affects the intracellular environment and TTSS gene expression. Intracellular bacterial survival depended on the method of entry, because complement-opsonized and SPI1-induced Salmonella initiated replication within 8 h whereas immunoglobulin G (IgG)-opsonized and non-opsonized Salmonella were initially killed. Analysis of vacuolar pH showed that acidification of the Salmonella-containing vacuole occurred more rapidly for non-opsonized or SPI1-induced Salmonella compared with IgG-opsonized or complement-opsonized Salmonella. Finally, quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to compare the transcriptional profiles of selected SPI1 and SPI2 regulon genes. We found that the magnitude of SPI2 gene induction depended on the mechanism of internalization. Unexpectedly, SPI1 genes, which are rapidly downregulated following SPI1-mediated invasion, were induced intracellularly following phagocytic uptake. These results reveal another level of complexity in pathogen-macrophage interactions.
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- Dan Drecktrah
- Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA
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Cummings LA, Barrett SLR, Wilkerson WD, Fellnerova I, Cookson BT. FliC-specific CD4+ T cell responses are restricted by bacterial regulation of antigen expression. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2005; 174:7929-38. [PMID: 15944299 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.174.12.7929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Salmonella typhimurium, a facultatively intracellular pathogen, regulates expression of virulence factors in response to distinct environments encountered during the course of infection. We tested the hypothesis that the transition from extra- to intracellular environments during Salmonella infection triggers changes in Ag expression that impose both temporal and spatial limitations on the host T cell response. CD4(+) T cells recovered from Salmonella immune mice were propagated in vitro using Ag derived from bacteria grown in conditions designed to emulate extra- or intracellular environments in vivo. Extracellular phase bacteria supported a dominant T cell response to the flagellar subunit protein FliC, whereas intracellular phase bacteria were unable to support expansion of FliC-specific T cells from populations known to contain T cells with reactivity to this Ag. This result was attributed to bacterial regulation of FliC expression: transcription and protein levels were repressed in bacteria growing in the spleens of infected mice. Furthermore, Salmonella-infected splenocytes taken directly ex vivo stimulated FliC-specific T cell clones only when intracellular FliC expression was artificially up-regulated. Although it has been suggested that a microanatomical separation of immune T cells and infected APC exists in vivo, we demonstrate that intracellular Salmonella can repress FliC expression below the T cell activation threshold. This potentially provides a mechanism for intracellular Salmonella at systemic sites to avoid detection by Ag-specific T cells primed at intestinal sites early in infection.
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- Lisa A Cummings
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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Chakravortty D, Rohde M, Jäger L, Deiwick J, Hensel M. Formation of a novel surface structure encoded by Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2. EMBO J 2005; 24:2043-2052. [PMID: 15889142 PMCID: PMC1142609 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2004] [Accepted: 04/15/2005] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded by Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 (SPI2) is essential for virulence and intracellular proliferation of Salmonella enterica. We have previously identified SPI2-encoded proteins that are secreted and function as a translocon for the injection of effector proteins. Here, we describe the formation of a novel SPI2-dependent appendage structure in vitro as well as on the surface of bacteria that reside inside a vacuole of infected host cells. In contrast to the T3SS of other pathogens, the translocon encoded by SPI2 is only present singly or in few copies at one pole of the bacterial cell. Under in vitro conditions, appendages are composed of a filamentous needle-like structure with a diameter of 10 nm that was sheathed with secreted protein. The formation of the appendage in vitro is dependent on acidic media conditions. We analyzed SPI2-encoded appendages in infected cells and observed that acidic vacuolar pH was not required for induction of SPI2 gene expression, but was essential for the assembly of these structures and their function as translocon for delivery of effector proteins.
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- Dipshikha Chakravortty
- Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Vaccine Research, Division of Microbiology, German Centre for Biotechnology (GBF), Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institut für Biochemie, Universität zu Lübeck, Germany
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- Institut für Klinische Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und Hygiene, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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Coombes BK, Wickham ME, Brown NF, Lemire S, Bossi L, Hsiao WWL, Brinkman FSL, Finlay BB. Genetic and Molecular Analysis of GogB, a Phage-encoded Type III-secreted Substrate in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium with Autonomous Expression from its Associated Phage. J Mol Biol 2005; 348:817-30. [PMID: 15843015 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2005.03.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2004] [Revised: 02/26/2005] [Accepted: 03/01/2005] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is lysogenized by several temperate bacteriophages that encode lysogenic conversion genes, which can act as virulence factors during infection and contribute to the genetic diversity and pathogenic potential of the lysogen. We have investigated the temperate bacteriophage called Gifsy-1 in S.enterica serovar Typhimurium and show here that the product of the gogB gene encoded within this phage shares similarity with proteins from other Gram-negative pathogens. The amino-terminal portion of GogB shares similarity with leucine-rich repeat-containing virulence-associated proteins from other Gram-negative pathogens, whereas the carboxyl-terminal portion of GogB shares similarity with uncharacterized proteins in other pathogens. We show that GogB is secreted by both type III secretion systems encoded in Salmonella Pathogenicity Island-1 (SPI-1) and SPI-2 but translocation into host cells is a SPI-2-mediated process. Once translocated, GogB localizes to the cytoplasm of infected host cells. The genetic regulation of gogB in Salmonella is influenced by the transcriptional activator, SsrB, under SPI-2-inducing conditions, but the modular nature of the gogB gene allows for autonomous expression and type III secretion following horizontal gene transfer into a heterologous pathogen. These data define the first autonomously expressed lysogenic conversion gene within Gifsy-1 that acts as a modular and promiscuous type III-secreted substrate of the infection process.
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- Brian K Coombes
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Coombes BK, Brown NF, Valdez Y, Brumell JH, Finlay BB. Expression and secretion of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 virulence genes in response to acidification exhibit differential requirements of a functional type III secretion apparatus and SsaL. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:49804-15. [PMID: 15383528 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m404299200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-2 is pivotal to the intracellular survival of Salmonella and for virulence in mammals. SPI-2 encodes virulence factors (called effectors) that are translocated into the host cell, a type III secretion apparatus and a two-component regulatory system that regulates intracellular expression of SPI-2. Salmonella SPI-2 secretion activity appears to be induced in response to acidification of the vacuole in which it replicates. Here we show that the expression of the SPI-2 proteins, SseB and SseD (filament and pore forming components of the secretion apparatus, respectively) in response to acidification requires an intact secretion system and SsaL, a Salmonella homologue of SepL, a regulator required for type III-dependent secretion of translocators but not effectors in attaching and effacing gastrointestinal pathogens. We show that the expression of SPI-2-encoded effectors is acid-regulated but can be uncoupled from the expression of filament and translocon components, thus showing a differential requirement of SsaL for expression. The secretion and translocation of SPI-2-encoded effectors requires SsaL, but SsaL is dispensable for the secretion of SPI-2 effectors encoded in other pathogenicity loci, suggesting a secretion regulation function for SsaL. Further, we demonstrate that the differential expression of adjacent genes within the sseA operon (sseD and sseE) occurs at the transcriptional level. These data indicate that a Salmonella SPI-2 activation state is achieved by an acidregulated response that requires SsaL. These data also suggest the existence of a previously unrecognized regulatory element within SPI-2 for the "effector operon" region downstream of sseD that might demarcate the expression of translocators and effectors.
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- Brian K Coombes
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Miki T, Okada N, Danbara H. Two periplasmic disulfide oxidoreductases, DsbA and SrgA, target outer membrane protein SpiA, a component of the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:34631-42. [PMID: 15169785 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m402760200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The formation of disulfide is essential for the folding, activity, and stability of many proteins secreted by Gram-negative bacteria. The disulfide oxidoreductase, DsbA, introduces disulfide bonds into proteins exported from the cytoplasm to periplasm. In pathogenic bacteria, DsbA is required to process virulence determinants for their folding and assembly. In this study, we examined the role of the Dsb enzymes in Salmonella pathogenesis, and we demonstrated that DsbA, but not DsbC, is required for the full expression of virulence in a mouse infection model of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Salmonella strains carrying a dsbA mutation showed reduced function mediated by type III secretion systems (TTSSs) encoded on Salmonella pathogenicity islands 1 and 2 (SPI-1 and SPI-2). To obtain a more detailed understanding of the contribution of DsbA to both SPI-1 and SPI-2 TTSS function, we identified a protein component of the SPI-2 TTSS apparatus affected by DsbA. Although we found no substrate protein for DsbA in the SPI-1 TTSS apparatus, we identified SpiA (SsaC), an outer membrane protein of SPI-2 TTSS, as a DsbA substrate. Site-directed mutagenesis of the two cysteine residues present in the SpiA protein resulted in the loss of SPI-2 function in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, we provided evidence that a second disulfide oxidoreductase, SrgA, also oxidizes SpiA. Analysis of in vivo mixed infections demonstrated that a Salmonella dsbA srgA double mutant strain was more attenuated than either single mutant, suggesting that DsbA acts in concert with SrgA in vivo.
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- Tsuyoshi Miki
- Department of Microbiology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8641, Japan
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