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JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY
卷 194, 期 22, 页码 6116-6130出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01409-12
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- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
- CIHR
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
- Canada Research Chair award
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award in the Biomedical Sciences
- USDA Agricultural Research Service CRIS [5325-42000-047]
- CIHR grant [MOP-68981]
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
The diarrheal pathogen Campylobacter jejuni and other gastrointestinal bacteria encounter changes in osmolarity in the environment, through exposure to food processing, and upon entering host organisms, where osmotic adaptation can be associated with virulence. In this study, growth profiles, transcriptomics, and phenotypic, mutant, and single-cell analyses were used to explore the effects of hyperosmotic stress exposure on C. jejuni. Increased growth inhibition correlated with increased osmotic concentration, with both ionic and nonionic stressors inhibiting growth at 0.620 total osmol liter(-1). C. jejuni adaptation to a range of osmotic stressors and concentrations was accompanied by severe filamentation in subpopulations, with microscopy indicating septum formation and phenotypic diversity between individual cells in a filament. Population heterogeneity was also exemplified by the bifurcation of colony morphology into small and large variants on salt stress plates. Flow cytometry of C. jejuni harboring green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to the ATP synthase promoter likewise revealed bimodal subpopulations under hyperosmotic stress. We also identified frequent hyperosmotic stress-sensitive variants within the clonal wild-type population propagated on standard laboratory medium. Microarray analysis following hyperosmotic upshift revealed enhanced expression of heat shock genes and genes encoding enzymes for synthesis of potential osmoprotectants and cross-protective induction of oxidative stress genes. The capsule export gene kpsM was also upregulated, and an acapsular mutant was defective for growth under hyperosmotic stress. For C. jejuni, an organism lacking most conventional osmotic response factors, these data suggest an unusual hyperosmotic stress response, including likely bet-hedging survival strategies relying on the presence of stress-fit individuals in a heterogeneous population.
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