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Kang X, Zhou X, Tang Y, Jiang Z, Chen J, Mohsin M, Yue M. Characterization of Two-Component System CitB Family in Salmonella Pullorum. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231710201. [PMID: 36077599 PMCID: PMC9456408 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231710201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Salmonella enterica, serovar Gallinarum, biovar Pullorum, is an avian-specific pathogen which has caused considerable economic losses to the poultry industry worldwide. Two-component systems (TCSs) play an essential role in obtaining nutrients, detecting the presence of neighboring bacteria and regulating the expression of virulence factors. The genome analysis of S. Pullorum strain S06004 suggesting the carriage of 22 pairs of TCSs, which belong to five families named CitB, OmpR, NarL, Chemotaxis and LuxR. In the CitB family, three pairs of TCSs, namely CitA-CitB, DcuS-DcuR and DpiB-DpiA, remain unaddressed in S. Pullorum. To systematically investigate the function of the CitB family in S. Pullorum, four mutants, ΔcitAB (abbreviated as Δcit), ΔdcuSR (Δdcu), ΔdpiBA (Δdpi) and ΔcitABΔdcuSRΔdpiBA (Δ3), were made using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. The results demonstrated that the CitB family did not affect the growth of bacteria, the results of biochemical tests, invasion and proliferation in chicken macrophage HD-11 cells and the expression of fimbrial protein. But the mutants showed thicker biofilm formation, higher resistance to antimicrobial agents, enhanced tolerance to inhibition by egg albumen and increased virulence in chicken embryos. Moreover, the deletion of Dpi TCS was detrimental to survival after exposure to hyperosmotic and oxidative environments, as well as the long-term colonization of the small intestine of chickens. Collectively, we provided new knowledge regarding the possible role of the CitB family involved in the pathogenic processes of S. Pullorum.
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- Xiamei Kang
- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Institute of Preventive Veterinary Sciences, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang University College of Animal Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Hainan Institute, Zhejiang University, Sanya 572025, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, Hangzhou 310058, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel./Fax: +86-571-88982832
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Yin J, Xiong W, Yuan X, Li S, Zhi L, Pan P, Sun W, Yu T, He Q, Cheng Z. Salmonella Pullorum lacking srfA is attenuated, immunogenic and protective in chickens. Microb Pathog 2021; 161:105230. [PMID: 34619313 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.105230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sallmonella Pullorum is a host-restricted pathogen for poultry and causes severe economic importance in many developing countries. The development of novel vaccines for Salmonella Pullorum is necessary to eradicate the prevalence of the pathogen. In our study, a srfA deletion mutant (C79-13ΔsrfA) of Salmonella Pullorum was constructed, and then the biological characteristics and protective efficacy of the mutant were evaluated. The mutant C79-13ΔsrfA was much less virulent than its parental strain C79-13 in one-day-old HY-line white chickens, immunization with C79-13ΔsrfA (4 × 107 CFU) through oral pathway induced highly specific humoral and cellular immune responses, the growth performance of vaccinated chickens was consistent with that of unvaccinated chickens. The survival percentages of vaccinated chickens reached 90% and 80%, after challenge with Salmonella Pullorum strain C79-13 and Salmonella Gallinarum strain SG9 at 10 days post-immunization (dpi), respectively. Collectively, our results indicate that C79-13ΔsrfA is a live attenuated vaccine candidate.
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- Junlei Yin
- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, China; College of Basic Medicine, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China.
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Analysis of In Vivo Transcriptome of Intracellular Bacterial Pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhmurium Isolated from Mouse Spleen. Pathogens 2021; 10:pathogens10070823. [PMID: 34209260 PMCID: PMC8308634 DOI: 10.3390/pathogens10070823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) is an important intracellular pathogen that poses a health threat to humans. This study tries to clarify the mechanism of Salmonella survival and reproduction in the host. In this study, high-throughput sequencing analysis was performed on RNA extracted from the strains isolated from infected mouse spleens and an S. Typhimurium reference strain (ATCC 14028) based on the BGISEQ-500 platform. A total of 1340 significant differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were screened. Functional annotation revealed DEGs associated with regulation, metabolism, transport and binding, pathogenesis, and motility. Through data mining and literature retrieval, 26 of the 58 upregulated DEGs (FPKM > 10) were not reported to be related to the adaptation to intracellular survival and were classified as candidate key genes (CKGs) for survival and proliferation in vivo. Our data contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms used by Salmonella to regulate virulence gene expression whilst replicating inside mammalian cells.
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Bai H, Zhou D, Zhang X, Cao Y, Xiao X, Zhang Y, Yu Y. The responses of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to vanillin in apple juice through global transcriptomics. Int J Food Microbiol 2021; 347:109189. [PMID: 33838479 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2021.109189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium can survive some extreme environment in food processing, and vanillin generally recognized as safe is bactericidal to pathogens. Thus, we need to explore the responses of S. Typhimurium to vanillin in order to apply this antimicrobial agent in food processing. In this study, we exposed S. Typhimurium to commercial apple juice with/without vanillin (3.2 mg/mL) at 45 °C for 75 min to determine the survival rate. Subsequently, the 10-min cultures were selected for transcriptomic analysis. Using high-throughput RNA sequencing, genes related to vanillin resistance and their expression changes of S. Typhimurium were identified. The survival curve showed that S. Typhimurium treated with vanillin were inactivated by 5.5 log after 75 min, while the control group only decreased by 2.3 log. Such a discrepancy showed the significant antibacterial effect of vanillin on S. Typhimurium. As a result, 265 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were found when coping with vanillin, among which, 225 showed up-regulation and 40 DEGs were down-regulated. Treated with vanillin, S. Typhimurium significantly up-regulated genes involved in cell membrane, acid tolerance response (ATR) and oxidative stress response, cold shock cross-protection, DNA repair, virulence factors and some key regulators. Firstly, membrane-related genes, including outer membrane (bamE, mepS, ygdI, lolB), inner membrane (yaiY, yicS) and other proteins (yciC, yjcH), were significantly up-regulated because of the damaged cell membrane. Then, up-regulated proteins associated with arginine synthesis (ArgABCDIG) and inward transportation (ArtI, ArtJ, ArtP and HisP), participated in ATR to pump out the protons inside the cell in this scenario. Next, superoxide stress response triggered by vanillin was found to have a significant up-regulation as well, which was controlled by SoxRS regulon. Besides, NADH-associated (nuoA, nuoB, nuoK, nadE, fre and STM3021), thioredoxin (trxA, trxC, tpx and bcp) and glutaredoxin (grxC and grxD) DEGs led to the increase of the oxidative stress response. Cold shock proteins such as CspA and CspC showed an up-regulation, suggesting it might play a role in cross-protecting S. Typhimurium from vanillin stress. Furthermore, DEGs in DNA repair and virulence factors, including flagellar assembly, adhesins and type III secretion system were up-regulated. Some regulators like fur, rpoE and csrA played a pivotal role in response to the stress caused by vanillin. Therefore, this study sounds an alarm for the risks caused by stress tolerance of S. Typhimurium in food industry.
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- Hong Bai
- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China
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- Ningbo International Travel Healthcare Center, No.336 LiutingStreet, Haishu District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province 315012, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China.
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China
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- School of Food Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province 510640, China.
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Askoura M, Hegazy WAH. Ciprofloxacin interferes with Salmonella Typhimurium intracellular survival and host virulence through repression of Salmonella pathogenicity island-2 (SPI-2) genes expression. Pathog Dis 2020; 78:5743416. [PMID: 32083661 DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftaa011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Current study aims to characterize the influence of sub-minimum inhibitory concentration (sub-MIC) of ciprofloxacin on Salmonella intracellular survival and host virulence. Herein, Salmonella resistance patterns to various antibiotics were in agreement with those reported in previous studies. Moreover, intracellular survival of both ciprofloxacin-sensitive and -resistant Salmonella was markedly reduced upon treatment with sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin as determined by gentamicin protection assay. These findings were further confirmed using immunostaining indicating an inhibitory effect of sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin on Salmonella intracellular survival. RT-qPCR revealed that expression of genes encoding Salmonella type three secretion system (TTSS) decreased upon bacterial exposure to sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin. Furthermore, bacterial exposure to sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin significantly reduced expression of both sifA and sifB, which are important for Salmonella filaments formation within the host. Treatment of Salmonella with sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin reduced bacterial capacity to kill mice infection models. A lower mortality rate was observed in mice injected with Salmonella treated with sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin as compared with mice inoculated with untreated bacteria. Collectively, current findings indicate that, in addition to its bactericidal potential, sub-MIC of ciprofloxacin could inhibit Salmonella intracellular survival, virulence genes expression as well as host pathogenesis, providing another mechanism for ciprofloxacin in limiting Salmonella host infection.
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- Momen Askoura
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt.,Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, USA
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Yin J, Cheng Z, Wu Y, He Q, Zhang J, Yang Z, Ding S, Li J, Guo D. Characterization and protective efficacy of a Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI2) mutant of Salmonella Paratyphi A. Microb Pathog 2019; 137:103795. [PMID: 31610219 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2019] [Revised: 09/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Paratyphoid fever caused by Salmonella Paratyphi A is a serious public health problem in many countries. In order to and develop a live attenuated candidate vaccine of Salmonella Paratyphi A, a Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI2, approximate 40 kb) deletion mutant of Salmonella Paratyphi A was constructed by lambda Red recombination, then the biological characteristics and protective ability of the Salmonella Paratyphi A SPI2 mutant were evaluated. Our results showed that the growth and biochemical properties of the SPI2 mutant were consistent with that of its parent strain, and the mutant was stable with the loss of SPI2. The mice lethal test showed that the virulence of the SPI2 mutant was significantly decreased, it can colonize and persistent more than 14 days in the liver and spleen of mice. Vaccination with the SPI2 mutant in mice revealed no significant effect on body weight and clinical symptoms compared to control animals, and specific humoral and cellular immune responses were also significantly induced. Immunization of mice offered efficient protection against Salmonella Paratyphi A strain challenge at 14 days post vaccination based on mortality and clinical symptoms relative to control group. Overall, these findings suggested that SPI2 plays an important role in pathogenicity of Salmonella Paratyphi A, and the SPI2 mutant showed its potential to develop a live attenuated vaccine candidate.
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- Junlei Yin
- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China.
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, China; College of Basic Medicine, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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- Medical College, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, China
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- Medical College, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, China
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- Medical College, Zhengzhou University of Industrial Technology, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- School of Life Science and Technology, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China
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