期刊
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 322, 期 2, 页码 150-156出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02347.x
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Salmonella; pseudogenes; pathogenicity
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- UNAB [DI-05/I]
- CONICYT [D-21060491, AT-24080052]
- FONDECYT [1110120]
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi and Typhimurium are closely related serovars. However, S. Typhi, a human-specific pathogen, has 5% of genes as pseudogenes, far more than S. Typhimurium, which only has 1%. One of these pseudogenes corresponds to sopD2, which in S. Typhimurium encodes an effector protein involved in Salmonella-containing vacuole biogenesis in human epithelial cell lines, which is needed for full virulence of the pathogen. We investigated whether S. Typhi trans-complemented with the functional sopD2 gene from S. Typhimurium (sopD2(STM)) would reduce the invasion of human epithelial cell lines. Our results showed that the presence of sopD2(STM) in S. Typhi significantly modified the bacterial ability to alter cellular permeability and decrease the CFUs recovered after cell invasion of human epithelial cell line. These results add to mounting evidence that pseudogenes contribute to S. Typhi adaptation to humans.
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