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Verticillium dahliae transcription factor VdFTF1 regulates the expression of multiple secreted virulence factors and is required for full virulence in cotton
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Wen‐Qi Zhang Yue‐Jing Gui Dylan P. G. Short Ting‐Gang Li Dan‐Dan Zhang Lei Zhou Chun Liu Yu‐Ming Bao Krishna V. Subbarao Jie‐Yin Chen Xiao‐Feng Dai 《Molecular Plant Pathology》2018,19(4):841-857
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Switch from planktonic to sessile life: a major event in pneumococcal pathogenesis 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
Oggioni MR Trappetti C Kadioglu A Cassone M Iannelli F Ricci S Andrew PW Pozzi G 《Molecular microbiology》2006,61(5):1196-1210
Two main patterns of gene expression of Streptococcus pneumoniae were observed during infection in the host by quantitative real time RT-PCR; one was characteristic of bacteria in blood and one of bacteria in tissue, such as brain and lung. Gene expression in blood was characterized by increased expression of pneumolysin, pspA and hrcA, while pneumococci in tissue infection showed increased expression of neuraminidases, metalloproteinases, oxidative stress and competence genes. In vitro situations with similar expression patterns were detected in liquid culture and in a newly developed pneumococcal model of biofilm respectively. The biofilm model was dependent on addition of synthetic competence stimulating peptide (CSP) and no biofilm was formed by CSP receptor mutants. As one of the differentially expressed gene sets in vivo were the competence genes, we exploited competence-specific tools to intervene on pneumococcal virulence during infection. Induction of the competence system by the quorum-sensing peptide, CSP, not only induced biofilm formation in vitro, but also increased virulence in pneumonia in vivo. In contrast, a mutant for the ComD receptor, which did not form biofilm, also showed reduced virulence in pneumonia. These results were opposite to those found in a bacteraemic sepsis model of infection, where the competence system was downregulated. When pneumococci in the different physiological states were used directly for challenge, sessile cells grown in a biofilm were more effective in inducing meningitis and pneumonia, while planktonic cells from liquid culture were more effective in inducing sepsis. Our data enable us, using in vivo gene expression and in vivo modulation of virulence, to postulate the distinction - from the pneumococcal point of view - between two main types of disease. During bacteraemic sepsis pneumococci resemble planktonic growth, while during tissue infection, such as pneumonia or meningitis, pneumococci are in a biofilm-like state. 相似文献
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Shu Y. Queck Burhan A. Khan Rong Wang Thanh-Huy L. Bach Dorothee Kretschmer Liang Chen Barry N. Kreiswirth Andreas Peschel Frank R. DeLeo Michael Otto 《PLoS pathogens》2009,5(7)
Bacterial virulence and antibiotic resistance have a significant influence on disease severity and treatment options during bacterial infections. Frequently, the underlying genetic determinants are encoded on mobile genetic elements (MGEs). In the leading human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, MGEs that contain antibiotic resistance genes commonly do not contain genes for virulence determinants. The phenol-soluble modulins (PSMs) are staphylococcal cytolytic toxins with a crucial role in immune evasion. While all known PSMs are core genome-encoded, we here describe a previously unidentified psm gene, psm-mec, within the staphylococcal methicillin resistance-encoding MGE SCCmec. PSM-mec was strongly expressed in many strains and showed the physico-chemical, pro-inflammatory, and cytolytic characteristics typical of PSMs. Notably, in an S. aureus strain with low production of core genome-encoded PSMs, expression of PSM-mec had a significant impact on immune evasion and disease. In addition to providing high-level resistance to methicillin, acquisition of SCCmec elements encoding PSM-mec by horizontal gene transfer may therefore contribute to staphylococcal virulence by substituting for the lack of expression of core genome-encoded PSMs. Thus, our study reveals a previously unknown role of methicillin resistance clusters in staphylococcal pathogenesis and shows that important virulence and antibiotic resistance determinants may be combined in staphylococcal MGEs. 相似文献
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Lebeau A Reverchon S Gaubert S Kraepiel Y Simond-Côte E Nasser W Van Gijsegem F 《Environmental microbiology》2008,10(3):545-559
Pathogenicity of the phytopathogenic enterobacterium Erwinia chrysanthemi , the causal agent of soft rot disease on many plants, is a complex process involving several factors whose production is regulated by a complex, intertwined regulatory network. In this work we characterized the GacA regulator, member of the GacS–GacA two-component system, as a global regulator which is required for disease expression but not for bacterial multiplication in planta during the first stages of the plant infection. GacA was shown to control the expression of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes and hrp genes in vitro . Analysis of virulence gene expression during infection of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed a coordinated expression of these virulence genes at 12 h post infection and showed that GacA is required for the appropriate production of virulence factors in planta . GacA might partly act by negatively controlling the expression of the pecT gene encoding the global repressor PecT, indicating a hierarchy in the pathways involved in the E. chrysanthemi regulatory network. 相似文献
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Yuan Li Nicholas J Croucher Claudette M Thompson Krzysztof Trzciński William P Hanage Marc Lipsitch 《BMC genomics》2015,16(1)