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FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR AND INFECTION MICROBIOLOGY
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2015.00056
关键词
ncRNA; Vibrio alginolyticus; adhesion; chemotaxis pathway; RNAi
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31272699, 31272669, 31202030]
- Science and Technology Program of Xiamen [3502Z20133016]
- Science and Technology Program of Ocean & Fisheries Bureau of Xiamen [201357]
- Science and Technology Program of Xiamen Southern Oceanographic Center [14CZP032HJ06, 14PYY0505F03]
- Key Laboratory of Healthy Mariculture for the East China Sea [2013E5HML02]
The capability of Vibrio alginolyticus to adhere to fish mucus is a key virulence factor of the bacteria. Our previous research showed that stress conditions, such as Pb2+, Hg2+, and low pH, can reduce this adhesion ability. Non-coding (nc) RNAs play a crucial role in regulating bacterial gene expression, affecting the bacteria's pathogenicity. To investigate the mechanism(s) underlying the decline in adhesion ability caused by stressors, we combined high-throughput sequencing with computational techniques to detect stressed ncRNA dynamics. These approaches yielded three commonly altered ncRNAs that are predicted to regulate the bacterial chemotaxis pathway, which plays a key role in the adhesion process of bacteria. We hypothesized they play a key role in the adhesion process of V alginolyticus. In this study, we validated the effects of these three ncRNAs on their predicted target genes and their role in the V alginolyticus adhesion process with RNA interference (i), quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), northern blot, capillary assay, and in vitro adhesion assays. The expression of these ncRNAs and their predicted target genes were confirmed by qPCR and northern blot, which reinforced the reliability of the sequencing data and the target prediction. Overexpression of these ncRNAs was capable of reducing the chemotactic and adhesion ability of V alginolyticus, and the expression levels of their target genes were also significantly reduced. Our results indicated that these three ncRNAs: (1) are able to regulate the bacterial chemotaxis pathway, and (2) play a key role in the adhesion process of V alginolyticus.
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