The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
The ST313 pathovar of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contributes to a high burden of invasive disease among African infants and HIV-infected adults. It is characterized by genome degradation (loss of coding capacity) and has increased resistance to antibody-dependent complement-mediated kil...
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| author | Ondari, EM Heath, JN Klemm, EJ Langridge, G Barquist, L Goulding, DA Clare, S Dougan, G Kingsley, RA MacLennan, CA |
| author_facet | Ondari, EM Heath, JN Klemm, EJ Langridge, G Barquist, L Goulding, DA Clare, S Dougan, G Kingsley, RA MacLennan, CA |
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| description | The ST313 pathovar of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contributes to a high burden of invasive disease among African infants and HIV-infected adults. It is characterized by genome degradation (loss of coding capacity) and has increased resistance to antibody-dependent complement-mediated killing compared with enterocolitis-causing strains of S. Typhimurium. Vaccination is an attractive disease-prevention strategy, and leading candidates focus on the induction of bactericidal antibodies. Antibody-resistant strains arising through further gene deletion could compromise such a strategy. Exposing a saturating transposon insertion mutant library of S. Typhimurium to immune serum identified a repertoire of S. Typhimurium genes that, when interrupted, result in increased resistance to serum killing. These genes included several involved in bacterial envelope biogenesis, protein translocation, and metabolism. We generated defined mutant derivatives using S. Typhimurium SL1344 as the host. Based on their initial levels of enhanced resistance to killing, yfgA and sapA mutants were selected for further characterization. The S. Typhimurium yfgA mutant lost the characteristic Salmonella rod-shaped appearance, exhibited increased sensitivity to osmotic and detergent stress, lacked very long lipopolysaccharide, was unable to invade enterocytes, and demonstrated decreased ability to infect mice. In contrast, the S. Typhimurium sapA mutants had similar sensitivity to osmotic and detergent stress and lipopolysaccharide profile and an increased ability to infect enterocytes compared with the wild type, but it had no increased ability to cause in vivo infection. These findings indicate that increased resistance to antibody-dependent complement-mediated killing secondary to genetic deletion is not necessarily accompanied by increased virulence and suggest the presence of different mechanisms of antibody resistance. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:23d4f345-2331-4a0d-a3cf-362b7809ac9d2022-08-26T10:41:26ZThe role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar TyphimuriumJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:23d4f345-2331-4a0d-a3cf-362b7809ac9dEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Society for Microbiology2017Ondari, EMHeath, JNKlemm, EJLangridge, GBarquist, LGoulding, DAClare, SDougan, GKingsley, RAMacLennan, CAThe ST313 pathovar of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium contributes to a high burden of invasive disease among African infants and HIV-infected adults. It is characterized by genome degradation (loss of coding capacity) and has increased resistance to antibody-dependent complement-mediated killing compared with enterocolitis-causing strains of S. Typhimurium. Vaccination is an attractive disease-prevention strategy, and leading candidates focus on the induction of bactericidal antibodies. Antibody-resistant strains arising through further gene deletion could compromise such a strategy. Exposing a saturating transposon insertion mutant library of S. Typhimurium to immune serum identified a repertoire of S. Typhimurium genes that, when interrupted, result in increased resistance to serum killing. These genes included several involved in bacterial envelope biogenesis, protein translocation, and metabolism. We generated defined mutant derivatives using S. Typhimurium SL1344 as the host. Based on their initial levels of enhanced resistance to killing, yfgA and sapA mutants were selected for further characterization. The S. Typhimurium yfgA mutant lost the characteristic Salmonella rod-shaped appearance, exhibited increased sensitivity to osmotic and detergent stress, lacked very long lipopolysaccharide, was unable to invade enterocytes, and demonstrated decreased ability to infect mice. In contrast, the S. Typhimurium sapA mutants had similar sensitivity to osmotic and detergent stress and lipopolysaccharide profile and an increased ability to infect enterocytes compared with the wild type, but it had no increased ability to cause in vivo infection. These findings indicate that increased resistance to antibody-dependent complement-mediated killing secondary to genetic deletion is not necessarily accompanied by increased virulence and suggest the presence of different mechanisms of antibody resistance. |
| spellingShingle | Ondari, EM Heath, JN Klemm, EJ Langridge, G Barquist, L Goulding, DA Clare, S Dougan, G Kingsley, RA MacLennan, CA The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title | The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title_full | The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title_fullStr | The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title_short | The role of sapA and yfgA in susceptibility to antibody-mediated complement-dependent killing and virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium |
| title_sort | role of sapa and yfga in susceptibility to antibody mediated complement dependent killing and virulence of salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium |
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