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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 192, 期 7, 页码 1774-1784出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01132-09
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB479-B1, Go-168/27-3, EI-384/6-1, SPP1316 EI-384/6, SPP1316 FU-375/5]
- Network of Excellence/Euro-PathoGenomics
- Fonds der chemischen Industrie
The human pathogen L. monocytogenes is a facultatively intracellular bacterium that survives and replicates in the cytosol of many mammalian cells. The listerial metabolism, especially under intracellular conditions, is still poorly understood. Recent studies analyzed the carbon metabolism of L. monocytogenes by the C-13 isotopologue perturbation method in a defined minimal medium containing [U-C-13(6)] glucose. It was shown that these bacteria produce oxaloacetate mainly by carboxylation of pyruvate due to an incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle. Here, we report that a pycA insertion mutant defective in pyruvate carboxylase (PYC) still grows, albeit at a reduced rate, in brain heart infusion (BHI) medium but is unable to multiply in a defined minimal medium with glucose or glycerol as a carbon source. Aspartate and glutamate of the pycA mutant, in contrast to the wild-type strain, remain unlabeled when [U-C-13(6)] glucose is added to BHI, indicating that the PYC-catalyzed carboxylation of pyruvate is the predominant reaction leading to oxaloacetate in L. monocytogenes. The pycA mutant is also unable to replicate in mammalian cells and exhibits high virulence attenuation in the mouse sepsis model.
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