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Carriage of Shiga toxin phage profoundly affects Escherichia coli gene expression and carbon source utilization

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BMC GENOMICS
卷 20, 期 -, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-019-5892-x

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Stx2a phage; E; coli O104:H4; E; coli O157:H7; E; coli K-12 MG1655; RNA-seq; Biolog phenotype microarrays; Carbon source utilization; Carbon metabolism

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  1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [276606594, ME3205/5-1, SFB1009 B04, SFB1009 B05]

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BackgroundEnterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (E. coli) are intestinal pathogenic bacteria that cause life-threatening disease in humans. Their cardinal virulence factor is Shiga toxin (Stx), which is encoded on lambdoid phages integrated in the chromosome. Stx phages can infect and lysogenize susceptible bacteria, thus either increasing the virulence of already pathogenic bacterial hosts or transforming commensal strains into potential pathogens. There is increasing evidence that Stx phage-encoded factors adaptively regulate bacterial host gene expression. Here, we investigated the effects of Stx phage carriage in E. coli K-12 strain MG1655. We compared the transcriptome and phenotype of naive MG1655 and two lysogens carrying closely related Stx2a phages: O104 from the exceptionally pathogenic 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strain and PA8 from an E. coli O157:H7 isolate.Results p id=Par2 Analysis of quantitative RNA sequencing results showed that, in comparison to naive MG1655, genes involved in mixed acid fermentation were upregulated, while genes encoding NADH dehydrogenase I, TCA cycle enzymes and proteins involved in the transport and assimilation of carbon sources were downregulated in MG1655::phi O104 and MG1655::phi PA8. The majority of the changes in gene expression were found associated with the corresponding phenotypes. Notably, the Stx2a phage lysogens displayed moderate to severe growth defects in minimal medium supplemented with single carbon sources, e.g. galactose, ribose, L-lactate. In addition, in phenotype microarray assays, the Stx2a phage lysogens were characterized by a significant decrease in the cell respiration with gluconeogenic substrates such as amino acids, nucleosides, carboxylic and dicarboxylic acids. In contrast, MG1655::phi O104 and MG1655::phi PA8 displayed enhanced respiration with several sugar components of the intestinal mucus, e.g. arabinose, fucose, N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. We also found that prophage-encoded factors distinct from CI and Cro were responsible for the carbon utilization phenotypes of the Stx2a phage lysogens.Conclusions p id=Par3 Our study reveals a profound impact of the Stx phage carriage on E. coli carbon source utilization. The Stx2a prophage appears to reprogram the carbon metabolism of its bacterial host by turning down aerobic metabolism in favour of mixed acid fermentation.

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