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MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 9, Pages 875-881Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2007.tb03969.x
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EHEC O157; proteome; VBNC
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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 strain F2, a food isolate of an outbreak, is resistant to oxidative stress, but has increased stress-sensitivity after passage through mice. The stress-sensitive variant of F2 (designated MP37) has decreased culturability, but retains membrane integrity under stress conditions, indicating that the cells enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. Proteomic analyses revealed that MP37 in the VBNC state had decreased levels of some oxidation-responsive factors (AhpCF, AceF), but it markedly increased levels of outer membrane protein W (OmpW). Because F2 expressed higher levels of some ribosome-associated proteins (RaiA, S6, Bcp) than MP37, the effect of animal passage on the induction of the VBNC state in the EHEC O157 cells might be due to ribosomal activity.
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