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The Borrelia burgdorferi CheY3 response regulator is essential for chemotaxis and completion of its natural infection cycle

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CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 18, 期 12, 页码 1782-1799

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cmi.12617

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  1. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [1R21AI113014]
  2. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [1R01AR060834]
  3. American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship [14PRE20490177]

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Borrelia burgdorferi possesses a sophisticated and complex chemotaxis system, but how the organism utilizes this system in its natural enzootic life cycle is poorly understood. Of the three CheY chemotaxis response regulators in B.burgdorferi, we found that only deletion of cheY3 resulted in an altered motility and significantly reduced chemotaxis phenotype. Although cheY3 maintained normal densities in unfed ticks, their numbers were significantly reduced in fed ticks compared with the parental or cheY3-complemented spirochetes. Importantly, mice fed upon by the cheY3-infected ticks did not develop a persistent infection. Intravital confocal microscopy analyses discovered that the cheY3 spirochetes were motile within skin, but appeared unable to reverse direction and perform the characteristic backward-forward motility displayed by the parental strain. Subsequently, the cheY3 became trapped' in the skin matrix within days of inoculation, were cleared from the skin needle-inoculation site within 96h post-injection and did not disseminate to distant tissues. Interestingly, although cheY3 cells were cleared within 96h post-injection, this attenuated infection elicited significant levels of B.burgdorferi-specific IgM and IgG. Taken together, these data demonstrate that cheY3-mediated chemotaxis is crucial for motility, dissemination and viability of the spirochete both within and between mice and ticks.

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