An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7.
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a major cause of zoonotic food- and water-borne intestinal infections worldwide with clinical consequences ranging from mild diarrhoea to hemolytic uraemic syndrome. The genome of EHEC O157:H7 contains many regions of unique DNA that are referred...
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doaj-86fb2971a962439e9c8f7dd58c0da37d2020-11-25T01:29:12ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032013-01-0186e6421110.1371/journal.pone.0064211An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7.Yanmei XuXuefang XuRuiting LanYanwen XiongChangyun YeZhihong RenLi LiuAilan ZhaoLong-Fei WuJianguo XuEnterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a major cause of zoonotic food- and water-borne intestinal infections worldwide with clinical consequences ranging from mild diarrhoea to hemolytic uraemic syndrome. The genome of EHEC O157:H7 contains many regions of unique DNA that are referred to as O islands including the Shiga toxin prophages and pathogenicity islands encoding key virulence factors. However many of these O islands are of unknown function. In this study, genetic analysis was conducted on OI-172 which is a 44,434 bp genomic island with 27 open reading frames. Comparative genome analysis showed that O1-72 is a composite island with progressive gain of genes since O157:H7 evolved from its ancestral O55:H7. A partial OI-172 island was also found in 2 unrelated E. coli strains and 2 Salmonella strains. OI-172 encodes several putative helicases, one of which (Z5898) is a putative DEAH box RNA helicase. To investigate the function of Z5898, a deletion mutant (EDL933ΔZ5898) was constructed in the O157:H7 strain EDL933. Comparative proteomic analysis of the mutant with the wild-type EDL933 found that flagellin was down-regulated in the Z5898 mutant. Motility assay showed that EDL933ΔZ5898 migrated slower than the wild-type EDL933 and electron microscopy found no surface flagella. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR revealed that the fliC expression of EDL933ΔZ5898 was significantly lower while the expression of its upstream regulator gene, fliA, was not affected. Using a fliA and a fliC promoter - green fluorescent protein fusion contruct, Z5898 was found to affect only the fliC promoter activity. Therefore, Z5898 regulates the flagella based motility by exerting its effect on fliC. We conclude that OI-172 is a motility associated O island and hereby name it the MAO island.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3681947?pdf=render |
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Yanmei Xu Xuefang Xu Ruiting Lan Yanwen Xiong Changyun Ye Zhihong Ren Li Liu Ailan Zhao Long-Fei Wu Jianguo Xu An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. PLoS ONE |
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Yanmei Xu Xuefang Xu Ruiting Lan Yanwen Xiong Changyun Ye Zhihong Ren Li Liu Ailan Zhao Long-Fei Wu Jianguo Xu |
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An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. |
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An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. |
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An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. |
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An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. |
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An O island 172 encoded RNA helicase regulates the motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7. |
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o island 172 encoded rna helicase regulates the motility of escherichia coli o157:h7. |
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Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is a major cause of zoonotic food- and water-borne intestinal infections worldwide with clinical consequences ranging from mild diarrhoea to hemolytic uraemic syndrome. The genome of EHEC O157:H7 contains many regions of unique DNA that are referred to as O islands including the Shiga toxin prophages and pathogenicity islands encoding key virulence factors. However many of these O islands are of unknown function. In this study, genetic analysis was conducted on OI-172 which is a 44,434 bp genomic island with 27 open reading frames. Comparative genome analysis showed that O1-72 is a composite island with progressive gain of genes since O157:H7 evolved from its ancestral O55:H7. A partial OI-172 island was also found in 2 unrelated E. coli strains and 2 Salmonella strains. OI-172 encodes several putative helicases, one of which (Z5898) is a putative DEAH box RNA helicase. To investigate the function of Z5898, a deletion mutant (EDL933ΔZ5898) was constructed in the O157:H7 strain EDL933. Comparative proteomic analysis of the mutant with the wild-type EDL933 found that flagellin was down-regulated in the Z5898 mutant. Motility assay showed that EDL933ΔZ5898 migrated slower than the wild-type EDL933 and electron microscopy found no surface flagella. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR revealed that the fliC expression of EDL933ΔZ5898 was significantly lower while the expression of its upstream regulator gene, fliA, was not affected. Using a fliA and a fliC promoter - green fluorescent protein fusion contruct, Z5898 was found to affect only the fliC promoter activity. Therefore, Z5898 regulates the flagella based motility by exerting its effect on fliC. We conclude that OI-172 is a motility associated O island and hereby name it the MAO island. |
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