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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
Volume 186, Issue 14, Pages 4694-4704Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.14.4694-4704.2004
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI026195, AI26195] Funding Source: Medline
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Survival and replication in the intracellular environment are critical components of the ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to establish systemic infection in the murine host. Intracellular survival is mediated by a number of genetic loci, including Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SP12). SP12 is a 40-kb locus encoding a type III secretion system that secretes effector molecules, which permits bacterial survival and replication in the intracellular environment of host cells. A two-component regulatory system, ssrAB, is also encoded in SP12 and controls expression of the secretion system and effectors. While the environmental signals to which SP12 responds in vivo are not known, activation of expression is dependent on OmpR and can be stimulated in vitro by chelation of cations or by a shift from rich to acidic minimal medium. In this work, we demonstrated that SP12 activation is associated with OmpR in the phosphorylated form (OmpR-P). Mutations in envZ and ackA-pta, which disrupted two distinct sources of OmpR phosphorylation, indicated that SP12 activation by chelators or a shift from rich to acidic minimal medium is largely dependent on functional EnvZ. In contrast, the PhoPQ pathway is not required for SP12 activation in the presence of OmpR-P. As in the case of in vitro stimulation, SPI2 expression in macrophages correlates with the presence of OmpR-P. Additionally, EnvZ, but not acetyl phosphate, is required for maximal expression of SP12 in the intracellular environment, suggesting that the in vitro SP12 activation pathway is the same as that used in vivo.
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