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Zhang N, Li J, Zhan Y, Wang K, Zhan Z, Wei H, Zhang Z. Acid-tolerant Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ZDY2013 shows a colonization niche preference and interacts with enterotoxigenic Bacillus cereus in specific-pathogen-free mice. Food Funct 2023. [PMID: 37366339 DOI: 10.1039/d3fo01468a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2023]
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Probiotics have long been utilized as functional food and modulate gut microbial homeostasis, but their colonization niche is mostly unclear and transient, which restrains the development of microbiome-targeted strategies. Lactiplantibacillus (L.) plantarum ZDY2013 is an allochthonous species of the human gastrointestinal tract with acid-tolerant properties. It serves as an antagonistic agent against the food-borne pathogen Bacillus (B.) cereus and a potent regulator of the gut microbiota. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding the colonization dynamics of L. plantarum ZDY2013 in the host intestine and the colonization niche of its interaction with pathogens. Here, we designed a pair of specific primers targeting L. plantarum ZDY2013 based on its whole genome sequence. We evaluated their accuracy and sensitivity with other host-derived strains and confirmed their availability with artificially spiked fecal samples from different mouse models. Additionally, the content of L. plantarum ZDY2013 was quantified by qPCR in fecal samples from BALB/c mice, followed by the analysis of its colonization niche preference. Moreover, the interactions between L. plantarum ZDY2013 and enterotoxigenic B. cereus HN001 were also elucidated. The results revealed that the newly designed primers could identify L. plantarum ZDY2013 with high specificity and were resistant to the influence of the complex fecal matrix and gut microbes from different hosts. Interestingly, the content of mixed L. plantarum ZDY2013 and B. cereus HN001 when orally administered remained higher when compared with the single strain group in BALB/c mice upon discontinuation of intragastric administration. In addition, L. plantarum ZDY2013 was mainly enriched in the large intestine during the ingestion period and maintained the highest content in the stomach after discontinuing supplementation on day 7. Moreover, L. plantarum ZDY2013 colonization neither damaged the intestine nor ameliorated the damage triggered by B. cereus in BALB/c mice. Overall, our study constructed two efficient specific primers targeting L. plantarum ZDY2013 and provided the potential to explore the underlying mechanism of competition between L. plantarum ZDY2013 and pathogens in host species.
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- Na Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang 330047, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang 330047, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang 330047, China.
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- Department of Physiology, CEGIIR, University of Alberta, Edmonton T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Jiangxi General Institute of Testing and Certification Food Testing Institute, Nanchang, 330200, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang 330047, China.
- Sino-German Joint Research Institute, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330047, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, Nanchang University, 235 Nanjing East Road, Nanchang 330047, China.
- International Institute of Food Innovation, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330299, China
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Liu MS, Kuo TCY, Ko CY, Wu DC, Li KY, Lin WJ, Lin CP, Wang YW, Schafleitner R, Lo HF, Chen CY, Chen LFO. Genomic and transcriptomic comparison of nucleotide variations for insights into bruchid resistance of mungbean (Vigna radiata [L.] R. Wilczek). BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2016; 16:46. [PMID: 26887961 PMCID: PMC4756517 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-016-0736-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 02/09/2016] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Mungbean (Vigna radiata [L.] R. Wilczek) is an important legume crop with high nutritional value in South and Southeast Asia. The crop plant is susceptible to a storage pest caused by bruchids (Callosobruchus spp.). Some wild and cultivated mungbean accessions show resistance to bruchids. Genomic and transcriptomic comparison of bruchid-resistant and -susceptible mungbean could reveal bruchid-resistant genes (Br) for this pest and give insights into the bruchid resistance of mungbean. RESULTS Flow cytometry showed that the genome size varied by 61 Mb (mega base pairs) among the tested mungbean accessions. Next generation sequencing followed by de novo assembly of the genome of the bruchid-resistant recombinant inbred line 59 (RIL59) revealed more than 42,000 genes. Transcriptomic comparison of bruchid-resistant and -susceptible parental lines and their offspring identified 91 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) classified into 17 major and 74 minor bruchid-resistance-associated genes. We found 408 nucleotide variations (NVs) between bruchid-resistant and -susceptible lines in regions spanning 2 kb (kilo base pairs) of the promoters of 68 DEGs. Furthermore, 282 NVs were identified on exons of 148 sequence-changed-protein genes (SCPs). DEGs and SCPs comprised genes involved in resistant-related, transposable elements (TEs) and conserved metabolic pathways. A large number of these genes were mapped to a region on chromosome 5. Molecular markers designed for variants of putative bruchid-resistance-associated genes were highly diagnostic for the bruchid-resistant genotype. CONCLUSIONS In addition to identifying bruchid-resistance-associated genes, we found that conserved metabolism and TEs may be modifier factors for bruchid resistance of mungbean. The genome sequence of a bruchid-resistant inbred line, candidate genes and sequence variations in promoter regions and exons putatively conditioning resistance as well as markers detecting these variants could be used for development of bruchid-resistant mungbean varieties.
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- Mao-Sen Liu
- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
- Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
- Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
- Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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- AVRDC-the World Vegetable Center, 60 Yi-min Liao, Shanhua, Tainan, 74151, Taiwan.
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- AVRDC-the World Vegetable Center, 60 Yi-min Liao, Shanhua, Tainan, 74151, Taiwan.
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan.
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- Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec. 2, Academia Rd, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
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Teyssier C, Marchandin H, Jumas-Bilak E. [The genome of alpha-proteobacteria : complexity, reduction, diversity and fluidity]. Can J Microbiol 2004; 50:383-96. [PMID: 15284884 DOI: 10.1139/w04-033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The alpha-proteobacteria displayed diverse and often unconventional life-styles. In particular, they keep close relationships with the eucaryotic cell. Their genomic organization is often atypical. Indeed, complex genomes, with two or more chromosomes that could be linear and sometimes associated with plasmids larger than one megabase, have been described. Moreover, polymorphism in genome size and topology as well as in replicon number was observed among very related bacteria, even in a same species. Alpha-proteobacteria provide a good model to study the reductive evolution, the role and origin of multiple chromosomes, and the genomic fluidity. The amount of new data harvested in the last decade should lead us to better understand emergence of bacterial life-styles and to build the conceptual basis to improve the definition of the bacterial species.
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- Corinne Teyssier
- Laboratoire de bactériologie, Faculté de pharmacie, Montpellier CEDEX 5, France
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Fenollar F, La Scola B, Inokuma H, Dumler JS, Taylor MJ, Raoult D. Culture and phenotypic characterization of a Wolbachia pipientis isolate. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 41:5434-41. [PMID: 14662922 PMCID: PMC308996 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.12.5434-5441.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The recent isolation of Wolbachia pipientis in the continuous cell line Aa23, established from eggs of a strain of the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus, allowed us to perform extensive characterization of the isolate. Bacterial growth could be obtained in C6/36, another A. albopictus cell line, at 28 degrees C and in a human embryonic lung fibroblast monolayer at 28 and 37 degrees C, confirming that its host cell range is broader than was initially thought. The bacteria were best visualized by Diff-Quik and May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining. Proteins from 213 to 18 kDa with two major protein bands of 65 and 25 kDa were observed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. By Western blotting with specific polyclonal mouse and rabbit antisera, dominant immunoreactive antigens were found at approximately 100, 80, and 30 kDa. The genome size was calculated to be 1,790 +/- 17 kb by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The sequence of the citrate synthase gene (gltA) of W. pipientis was determined by gene walking. Its position in the phylogenetic tree constructed with gltA confirmed that found in a phylogenetic tree constructed with 16S rRNA genes and that it belongs in the alpha subgroup of the class Proteobacteria and that it is closely related to but independent from the genera Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and Neorickettsia.
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- Florence Fenollar
- Unité des Rickettsies, Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine, CNRS UPRESA 6020, 13385 Marseille, France
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Dumler JS, Asanovich KM, Bakken JS. Analysis of genetic identity of North American Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:3392-4. [PMID: 12843101 PMCID: PMC165314 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.7.3392-3394.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Biological and geographic heterogeneity of anthropozoonosis caused by Anaplasma phagocytophilum is poorly understood. Seven North American A. phagocytophilum strains were compared by PFGE. The average genome size was 1.58 Mbp, and restriction patterns were identical. New World strains of A. phagocytophilum have a large genome and a high degree of genetic uniformity.
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- J S Dumler
- Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.
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Wilhelm J, Pingoud A, Hahn M. Real-time PCR-based method for the estimation of genome sizes. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:e56. [PMID: 12736322 PMCID: PMC156059 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gng056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The fast and reliable estimation of the genome sizes of various species would allow for a systematic analysis of many organisms and could reveal insights into evolutionary processes. Many methods for the estimation of genome sizes have already been described. The classical methods are based on the determination of the phosphate content in the DNA backbone of total DNA isolated from a defined number of cells or on reassociation kinetics of high molecular weight genomic DNA (c(0)t assay). More recent techniques employ DNA-specific fluorescent dyes in flow cytometry analysis, image analysis or absorption cytometry after Feulgen staining. The method presented here is based on the absolute quantification of genetic elements in a known amount (mass) of genomic DNA by real-time quantitative PCR. The method was evaluated on three different eukaryotic species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (12.1 Mb), Xiphophorus maculatus (550 Mb) and Homo sapiens sapiens (2.9 Gb), and found to be fast, highly accurate and reliable.
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- Jochen Wilhelm
- Institut für Biochemie, FB 08, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 58, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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Ehrlichia chaffeensis is an obligately intracellular, tick-transmitted bacterium that is maintained in nature in a cycle involving at least one and perhaps several vertebrate reservoir hosts. The moderate to severe disease caused by E. chaffeensis in humans, first identified in 1986 and reported for more than 1,000 patients through 2000, represents a prototypical "emerging infection." Knowledge of the biology and natural history of E. chaffeensis, and of the epidemiology, clinical features, and laboratory diagnosis of the zoonotic disease it causes (commonly referred to as human monocytic ehrlichiosis [HME]) has expanded considerably in the period since its discovery. In this review, we summarize briefly the current understanding of the microbiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations associated with this pathogen but focus primarily on discussing various ecological factors responsible for the recent recognition of this important and potentially life-threatening tick-borne disease. Perhaps the most pivotal element in the emergence of HME has been the staggering increases in white-tailed deer populations in the eastern United States during the 20th century. This animal serves as a keystone host for all life stages of the principal tick vector (Amblyomma americanum) and is perhaps the most important vertebrate reservoir host for E. chaffeensis. The contributions of other components, including expansion of susceptible human populations, growth and broadening geographical distributions of other potential reservoir species and A. americanum, and improvements in confirmatory diagnostic methods, are also explored.
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- Christopher D Paddock
- Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA.
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Stich RW, Rikihisa Y, Ewing SA, Needham GR, Grover DL, Jittapalapong S. Detection of Ehrlichia canis in canine carrier blood and in individual experimentally infected ticks with a p30-based PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40:540-6. [PMID: 11825969 PMCID: PMC153401 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.40.2.540-546.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Detection of vector-borne pathogens is necessary for investigation of their association with vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. The ability to detect Ehrlichia spp. within individual experimentally infected ticks would be valuable for studies to evaluate the relative competence of different vector species and transmission scenarios. The purpose of this study was to develop a sensitive PCR assay based on oligonucleotide sequences from the unique Ehrlichia canis gene, p30, to facilitate studies that require monitoring this pathogen in canine and tick hosts during experimental transmission. Homologous sequences for Ehrlichia chaffeensis p28 were compared to sequences of primers derived from a sequence conserved among E. canis isolates. Criteria for primer selection included annealing scores, identity of the primers to homologous E. chaffeensis sequences, and the availability of similarly optimal primers that were nested within the target template sequence. The p30-based assay was at least 100-fold more sensitive than a previously reported nested 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA)-based assay and did not amplify the 200-bp target amplicon from E. chaffeensis, the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent, or Ehrlichia muris DNA. The assay was used to detect E. canis in canine carrier blood and in experimentally infected Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks. Optimized procedures for preparing tissues from these hosts for PCR assay are described. Our results indicated that this p30-based PCR assay will be useful for experimental investigations, that it has potential as a routine test, and that this approach to PCR assay design may be applicable to other pathogens that occur at low levels in affected hosts.
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- Roger W Stich
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1092, USA.
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Sun LV, Foster JM, Tzertzinis G, Ono M, Bandi C, Slatko BE, O'Neill SL. Determination of Wolbachia genome size by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Bacteriol 2001; 183:2219-25. [PMID: 11244060 PMCID: PMC95127 DOI: 10.1128/jb.183.7.2219-2225.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2000] [Accepted: 01/08/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Genome sizes of six different Wolbachia strains from insect and nematode hosts have been determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of purified DNA both before and after digestion with rare-cutting restriction endonucleases. Enzymes SmaI, ApaI, AscI, and FseI cleaved the studied Wolbachia strains at a small number of sites and were used for the determination of the genome sizes of wMelPop, wMel, and wMelCS (each 1.36 Mb), wRi (1.66 Mb), wBma (1.1 Mb), and wDim (0.95 Mb). The Wolbachia genomes studied were all much smaller than the genomes of free-living bacteria such as Escherichia coli (4.7 Mb), as is typical for obligate intracellular bacteria. There was considerable genome size variability among Wolbachia strains, especially between the more parasitic A group Wolbachia infections of insects and the mutualistic C and D group infections of nematodes. The studies described here found no evidence for extrachromosomal plasmid DNA in any of the strains examined. They also indicated that the Wolbachia genome is circular.
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- L V Sun
- Section of Vector Biology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
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Barbet AF, Lundgren A, Yi J, Rurangirwa FR, Palmer GH. Antigenic variation of Anaplasma marginale by expression of MSP2 mosaics. Infect Immun 2000; 68:6133-8. [PMID: 11035716 PMCID: PMC97690 DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.11.6133-6138.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Anaplasma marginale is a tick-borne pathogen, one of several closely related ehrlichial organisms that cause disease in animals and humans. These Ehrlichia species have complex life cycles that require, in addition to replication and development within the tick vector, evasion of the immune system in order to persist in the mammalian reservoir host. This complexity requires efficient use of the small ehrlichial genome. A. marginale and related ehrlichiae express immunoprotective, variable outer membrane proteins that have similar structures and are encoded by polymorphic multigene families. We show here that the major outer membrane protein of A. marginale, MSP2, is encoded on a polycistronic mRNA. The genomic expression site for this mRNA is polymorphic and encodes numerous amino acid sequence variants in bloodstream populations of A. marginale. A potential mechanism for persistence is segmental gene conversion of the expression site to link hypervariable msp2 sequences to the promoter and polycistron.
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- A F Barbet
- Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0880, USA.
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de Villiers EP, Brayton KA, Zweygarth E, Allsopp BA. Genome size and genetic map of Cowdria ruminantium. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 2000; 146 ( Pt 10):2627-2634. [PMID: 11021937 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-10-2627] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Cowdria ruminantium is the cause of a serious tick-borne disease of domestic ruminants, known as heartwater or cowdriosis. The organism belongs to the tribe Ehrlichieae:, which contains obligate intracellular pathogens, causing several important animal and human diseases. Although a few C. ruminantium genes have been cloned and sequenced, very little is known about the size, gross structure and organization of the genome. This paper presents a complete physical map and a preliminary genetic map for C. ruminantium. Chromosomal C. ruminantium DNA was examined by PFGE and Southern hybridization. PFGE analysis revealed that C. ruminantium has a circular chromosome approximately 1576 kb in size. A physical map was derived by combining the results of PFGE analysis of DNA fragments resulting from digestion of the whole genome with KSP:I, RSR:II and SMA:I and Southern hybridization analysis with a series of gene probes and isolated macrorestriction fragments. A genetic map for C. ruminantium with a mean resolution of 290 kb was established, the first for a member of the Ehrlichieae: A total of nine genes or cloned C. ruminantium DNA fragments were mapped to specific KSP:I, RSR:II and SMA:I fragments, including the major antigenic protein gene, map-1.
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- E P de Villiers
- Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, 0110, Republic of South Africa1
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- Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA2
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- Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, 0110, Republic of South Africa1
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- Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Onderstepoort, 0110, Republic of South Africa1
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