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Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat N, Flandrois JP, Briolay J, Reverchon S, Brochier-Armanet C. Description of a new genus of the Pectobacteriaceae family isolated from water in coastal brackish wetlands of the French Camargue region, Prodigiosinella gen. nov., including the new species Prodigiosinella aquatilis sp. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2024; 47:126497. [PMID: 38402653 DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2024.126497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 02/14/2024] [Accepted: 02/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
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The Pectobacteriaceae family comprises plant pathogens able to provoke diverse diseases, including plant maceration due to the production of pectinases disrupting the plant cell wall. To better understand their diversity, a survey of pectinolytic bacteria was performed in brackish lakes of the French region La Camargue near the Mediterranean Sea. The genome of six atypical isolates was sequenced; their size is around 4.8 to 5.0 Mb, including a plasmid of 59 to 61 kb; their G+C values range from 49.1 to 49.3 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses indicated that the novel strains form a new clade of Pectobacteriaceae that branches at the basis of the group encompassing the genera Lonsdalea, Musicola, and Dickeya. Based on phenotypic, genomic and phylogenetic characteristics, we propose the creation of a new genus with the name Prodigiosinella gen. nov. Both the phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses separated the strains into two distinct subgroups, G1 and G2. The type strain LS101T (CFBP 8826T = LMG 32072T) and strain CE70 (CFBP 9054 = LMG 32867) are representative G1 and G2 members, respectively. Three genomic methods were used to analyze DNA-DNA relatedness: digital DNA-DNA hybridization (isDDH), average nucleotide identity (ANI), and genome alignment fraction (AF). They revealed a close relationship between genomes of the two groups, supporting their appurtenance to a same species for which we propose the name Prodigiosinella aquatilis sp. nov. Four strains previously designated as Serratia sp. (ATCC 39006), Brenneria "ulupoensis" (K61) or Erwinia sp. (MK01 and MK09) belong to the new genus Prodigiosinella.
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- Nicole Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat
- Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5240, INSA de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LBBE, UMR 5558, CNRS, VAS, Villeurbanne F-69621, France.
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- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS FR 3728 BioEEnViS, plateforme DTAMB, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France.
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5240, INSA de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Microbiologie Adaptation et Pathogénie, F-69621 Villeurbanne, France.
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Gonzales M, Jacquet P, Gaucher F, Chabrière É, Plener L, Daudé D. AHL-Based Quorum Sensing Regulates the Biosynthesis of a Variety of Bioactive Molecules in Bacteria. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2024. [PMID: 38390739 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.3c00672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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Bacteria are social microorganisms that use communication systems known as quorum sensing (QS) to regulate diverse cellular behaviors including the production of various secreted molecules. Bacterial secondary metabolites are widely studied for their bioactivities including antibiotic, antifungal, antiparasitic, and cytotoxic compounds. Besides playing a crucial role in natural bacterial niches and intermicrobial competition by targeting neighboring organisms and conferring survival advantages to the producer, these bioactive molecules may be of prime interest to develop new antimicrobials or anticancer therapies. This review focuses on bioactive compounds produced under acyl homoserine lactone-based QS regulation by Gram-negative bacteria that are pathogenic to humans and animals, including the Burkholderia, Serratia, Pseudomonas, Chromobacterium, and Pseudoalteromonas genera. The synthesis, regulation, chemical nature, biocidal effects, and potential applications of these identified toxic molecules are presented and discussed in light of their role in microbial interactions.
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- Mélanie Gonzales
- Aix Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille 13288, France
- Gene&GreenTK, Marseille 13005, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille 13288, France
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Kim S, Yoon S, Zhang S. Multiplexed Ultrasound Imaging Using Spectral Analysis on Gas Vesicles. Adv Healthc Mater 2022; 11:e2200568. [PMID: 35765741 PMCID: PMC9463101 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202200568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Current advances in ultrasound imaging techniques combined with the next generation contrast agents such as gas vesicles (GV) revolutionize the visualization of biological tissues with spatiotemporal precision. In optics, fluorescent proteins enable understanding of molecular and cellular functions in biological systems due to their multiplexed imaging capability. Here, a panel of GVs is investigated using mid-band fit (MBF) spectral imaging to realize multiplexed ultrasound imaging to uniquely visualize locations of different types of stationary GVs. The MBF spectral imaging technique demonstrates that stationary clustered GVs are efficiently localized and distinguished from unclustered GVs in agarose gel phantom and 3D vessel structures are visualized in ex vivo mouse liver specimens. Mouse macrophages serve as carriers of clustered and unclustered GVs and multiplexing beacons to report cells' spatial locations by emitting distinct spectral signals. 2D MBF spectral images are reconstructed, and pixels in these images are classified depending on MBF values by comparing predetermined filters that predict the existence of cells with clustered and unclustered GVs. This pseudo-coloring scheme clearly distinguishes the locations of two classes of cells like pseudo-color images in fluorescence microscopy.
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- Sangnam Kim
- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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Ono T, Taniguchi I, Nakamura K, Nagano DS, Nishida R, Gotoh Y, Ogura Y, Sato MP, Iguchi A, Murase K, Yoshimura D, Itoh T, Shima A, Dubois D, Oswald E, Shiose A, Gotoh N, Hayashi T. Global population structure of the Serratia marcescens complex and identification of hospital-adapted lineages in the complex. Microb Genom 2022; 8:000793. [PMID: 35315751 PMCID: PMC9176281 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Serratia marcescens is an important nosocomial pathogen causing various opportunistic infections, such as urinary tract infections, bacteremia and sometimes even hospital outbreaks. The recent emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains further pose serious threats to global public health. This bacterium is also ubiquitously found in natural environments, but the genomic differences between clinical and environmental isolates are not clear, including those between S. marcescens and its close relatives. In this study, we performed a large-scale genome analysis of S. marcescens and closely related species (referred to as the 'S. marcescens complex'), including more than 200 clinical and environmental strains newly sequenced here. Our analysis revealed their phylogenetic relationships and complex global population structure, comprising 14 clades, which were defined based on whole-genome average nucleotide identity. Clades 10, 11, 12 and 13 corresponded to S. nematodiphila, S. marcescens sensu stricto, S. ureilytica and S. surfactantfaciens, respectively. Several clades exhibited distinct genome sizes and GC contents and a negative correlation of these genomic parameters was observed in each clade, which was associated with the acquisition of mobile genetic elements (MGEs), but different types of MGEs, plasmids or prophages (and other integrative elements), were found to contribute to the generation of these genomic variations. Importantly, clades 1 and 2 mostly comprised clinical or hospital environment isolates and accumulated a wide range of antimicrobial resistance genes, including various extended-spectrum β-lactamase and carbapenemase genes, and fluoroquinolone target site mutations, leading to a high proportion of MDR strains. This finding suggests that clades 1 and 2 represent hospital-adapted lineages in the S. marcescens complex although their potential virulence is currently unknown. These data provide an important genomic basis for reconsidering the classification of this group of bacteria and reveal novel insights into their evolution, biology and differential importance in clinical settings.
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- Tomoyuki Ono
- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Division of Microbiology, Department of Infectious Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi, Kurume, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
- Present address: Department of Frontier Research and Development, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kisarazu, Chiba, 292-0818, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Miyazaki, 889-8192, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto, 6060-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan
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- IRSD, INSERM, ENVT, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse, France
- Present address: Anicon Insurance, Inc., 8-17-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
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- IRSD, INSERM, ENVT, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse, France
- CHU Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan, Service de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Toulouse, France
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- IRSD, INSERM, ENVT, INRAE, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse, France
- CHU Toulouse, Hôpital Purpan, Service de Bactériologie-Hygiène, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Yamashiro, Kyoto, 607-8414, Japan
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- Department of Bacteriology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
- *Correspondence: Tetsuya Hayashi,
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Genome Sequences of Serratia Strains Revealed Common Genes in Both Serratomolides Gene Clusters. BIOLOGY 2020; 9:biology9120482. [PMID: 33419369 PMCID: PMC7767323 DOI: 10.3390/biology9120482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Simple Summary Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules produced by microorganisms with a hydrophilic and a hydrophobic group, able to reduce surface tension. These molecules are largely used in the environmental, food, pharmaceutical, medical, and cleaning industries, among others. Serratia strains are ubiquitous microorganisms with the ability to produce biosurfactants, such as serrawettins. These extracellular lipopeptides are described as biocides against many bacteria and fungi. This work used comparative genomics to determine the distribution and organization of the serrawettins W1 and W2 biosynthetic gene clusters in all the 84 publicly available genomes of the Serratia genus. Here, the serrawettin W1 gene clusters’ organization is reported for the first time. The serrawettin W1 biosynthetic gene swrW and serrawettin W2 biosynthetic gene swrA were present in 17 and 11 Serratia genomes, respectively. The same genes in the biosynthetic clusters frame the swrW and swrA biosynthetic genes. This work identified four genes common to all serrawettin gene clusters, highlighting their key potential in the serrawettins biosynthetic process. Abstract Serratia strains are ubiquitous microorganisms with the ability to produce serratomolides, such as serrawettins. These extracellular lipopeptides are described as biocides against many bacteria and fungi and may have a nematicidal activity against phytopathogenic nematodes. Serrawettins W1 and W2 from different strains have different structures that might be correlated with distinct genomic organizations. This work used comparative genomics to determine the distribution and the organization of the serrawettins biosynthetic gene clusters in all the 84 publicly available genomes of the Serratia genus. The serrawettin W1 and W2 gene clusters’ organization was established using antiSMASH software and compared with single and short data previously described for YD25TSerratia. Here, the serrawettin W1 gene clusters’ organization is reported for the first time. The serrawettin W1 biosynthetic gene swrW was present in 17 Serratia genomes. Eighty different coding sequence (CDS) were assigned to the W1 gene cluster, 13 being common to all clusters. The serrawettin W2 swrA gene was present in 11 Serratia genomes. The W2 gene clusters included 68 CDS with 24 present in all the clusters. The genomic analysis showed the swrA gene constitutes five modules, four with three domains and one with four domains, while the swrW gene constitutes one module with four domains. This work identified four genes common to all serrawettin gene clusters, highlighting their essential potential in the serrawettins biosynthetic process.
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Hampton HG, Smith LM, Ferguson S, Meaden S, Jackson SA, Fineran PC. Functional genomics reveals the toxin-antitoxin repertoire and AbiE activity in Serratia. Microb Genom 2020; 6:mgen000458. [PMID: 33074086 PMCID: PMC7725324 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Bacteriophage defences are divided into innate and adaptive systems. Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 has three CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems, but its innate immune repertoire is unknown. Here, we re-sequenced and annotated the Serratia genome and predicted its toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems. TA systems can provide innate phage defence through abortive infection by causing infected cells to 'shut down', limiting phage propagation. To assess TA system function on a genome-wide scale, we utilized transposon insertion and RNA sequencing. Of the 32 TA systems predicted bioinformatically, 4 resembled pseudogenes and 11 were demonstrated to be functional based on transposon mutagenesis. Three functional systems belonged to the poorly characterized but widespread, AbiE, abortive infection/TA family. AbiE is a type IV TA system with a predicted nucleotidyltransferase toxin. To investigate the mode of action of this toxin, we measured the transcriptional response to AbiEii expression. We observed dysregulated levels of tRNAs and propose that the toxin targets tRNAs resulting in bacteriostasis. A recent report on a related toxin shows this occurs through addition of nucleotides to tRNA(s). This study has demonstrated the utility of functional genomics for probing TA function in a high-throughput manner, defined the TA repertoire in Serratia and shown the consequences of AbiE induction.
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- Hannah G. Hampton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
- Genetics Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
- Genetics Otago, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
- Bio-protection Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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Nguyen SV, Muthappa DM, Eshwar AK, Buckley JF, Murphy BP, Stephan R, Lehner A, Fanning S. Comparative genomic insights into Yersinia hibernica - a commonly misidentified Yersinia enterocolitica-like organism. Microb Genom 2020; 6:mgen000411. [PMID: 32701425 PMCID: PMC7643974 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000411] [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: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Food-associated outbreaks linked to enteropathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica are of concern to public health. Pigs and their meat are recognized risk factors for transmission of Y. enterocolitica. This study aimed to describe the comparative genomics of Y. enterocolitica along with a number of misclassified Yersinia isolates, now constituting the recently described Yersinia hibernica. The latter was originally cultured from an environmental sample taken at a pig slaughterhouse. Unique features were identified in the genome of Y. hibernica, including a novel integrative conjugative element (ICE), denoted as ICEYh-1 contained within a 255 kbp region of plasticity. In addition, a zebrafish embryo infection model was adapted and applied to assess the virulence potential among Yersinia isolates including Y. hibernica.
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- Scott Van Nguyen
- UCD-Centre for Food Safety, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 N2E5, Ireland
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- UCD-Centre for Food Safety, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 N2E5, Ireland
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- Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory, Cork County Council, Inniscarra, Co. Cork and Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland
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- Veterinary Food Safety Laboratory, Cork County Council, Inniscarra, Co. Cork and Department of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland
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- Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- UCD-Centre for Food Safety, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin D04 N2E5, Ireland
- Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, 19 Chlorine Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK
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Quintero-Yanes A, Lee CM, Monson R, Salmond G. The FloR master regulator controls flotation, virulence and antibiotic production in Serratia sp. ATCC 39006. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:2921-2938. [PMID: 32352190 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2020] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 produces intracellular gas vesicles to enable upward flotation in water columns. It also uses flagellar rotation to swim through liquid and swarm across semi-solid surfaces. Flotation and motility can be co-regulated with production of a β-lactam antibiotic (carbapenem carboxylate) and a linear tripyrrole red antibiotic, prodigiosin. Production of gas vesicles, carbapenem and prodigiosin antibiotics, and motility are controlled by master transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulators, including the SmaI/SmaR-based quorum sensing system and the mRNA binding protein, RsmA. Recently, the ribose operon repressor, RbsR, was also defined as a pleiotropic regulator of flotation and virulence factor elaboration in this strain. Here, we report the discovery of a new global regulator (FloR; a DeoR family transcription factor) that modulates flotation through control of gas vesicle morphogenesis. The floR mutation is highly pleiotropic, down-regulating production of gas vesicles, carbapenem and prodigiosin antibiotics, and infection in Caenorhabditis elegans, but up-regulating flagellar motility. Detailed proteomic analysis using TMT peptide labelling and LC-MS/MS revealed that FloR is a physiological master regulator that operates through subordinate pleiotropic regulators including Rap, RpoS, RsmA, PigU, PstS and PigT.
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- Alex Quintero-Yanes
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.,Bacterial Cell cycle and Development (BCcD), University of Namur, 61 Rue de Bruxelles, Namur, 5000, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK.,Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, 26300, Malaysia
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site, Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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The nematicide Serratia plymuthica M24T3 colonizes Arabidopsis thaliana, stimulates plant growth, and presents plant beneficial potential. Braz J Microbiol 2019; 50:777-789. [PMID: 31177380 DOI: 10.1007/s42770-019-00098-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Nine bacterial strains were previously isolated in association with pinewood nematode (PWN) from wilted pine trees. They proved to be nematicidal in vitro, and one of the highest activities, with potential to control PWN, was showed by Serratia sp. M24T3. Its ecology in association with plants remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the ability of strain M24T3 to colonize the internal tissues of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana using confocal microscopy. Plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) functional traits were tested and retrieved in the genome of strain M24T3. In greenhouse conditions, the bacterial effects of all nematicidal strains were also evaluated, co-inoculated or not with Bradyrhizobium sp. 3267, on Vigna unguiculata fitness. Inoculation of strain M24T3 increased the number of A. thaliana lateral roots and the confocal analysis confirmed effective bacterial colonization in the plant. Strain M24T3 showed cellulolytic activity, siderophores production, phosphate and zinc solubilization ability, and indole acetic acid production independent of supplementation with L-tryptophan. In the genome of strain M24T3, genes involved in the interaction with the plants such as 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, chitinolytic activity, and quorum sensing were also detected. The genomic organization showed ACC deaminase and its leucine-responsive transcriptional regulator, and the activity of ACC deaminase was 594.6 nmol α-ketobutyrate μg protein-1 μl-1. Strain M24T3 in co-inoculation with Bradyrhizobium sp. 3267 promoted the growth of V. unguiculata. In conclusion, this study demonstrated the ability of strain M24T3 to colonize other plants besides pine trees as an endophyte and displays PGPB traits that probably increased plant tolerance to stresses.
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Quintero-Yanes A, Monson RE, Salmond GPC. Environmental potassium regulates bacterial flotation, antibiotic production and turgor pressure in Serratia through the TrkH transporter. Environ Microbiol 2019; 21:2499-2510. [PMID: 31012245 PMCID: PMC6617781 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2019] [Revised: 04/16/2019] [Accepted: 04/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Serratia sp. strain ATCC 39006 (S39006) can float in aqueous environments due to natural production of gas vesicles (GVs). Expression of genes for GV morphogenesis is stimulated in low oxygen conditions, thereby enabling migration to the air–liquid interface. Quorum sensing (via SmaI and SmaR) and transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulators, including RbsR and RsmA, respectively, connect the control of cell buoyancy, motility and secondary metabolism. Here, we define a new pleiotropic regulator found in screens of GV mutants. A mutation in the gene trkH, encoding a potassium transporter, caused upregulation of GV formation, flotation, and the prodigiosin antibiotic, and downregulation of flagellar motility. Pressure nephelometry revealed that the mutation in trkH affected cell turgor pressure. Our results show that osmotic change is an important physiological parameter modulating cell buoyancy and antimicrobial production in S39006, in response to environmental potassium levels.
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- Alex Quintero-Yanes
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site. Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site. Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Hopkins Building, Downing Site. Cambridge, CB2 1QW, UK
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Fineran PC. Resistance is not futile: bacterial 'innate' and CRISPR-Cas 'adaptive' immune systems. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2019; 165:834-841. [PMID: 30958259 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Bacteria are under a constant pressure from their viruses (phages) and other mobile genetic elements. They protect themselves through a range of defence strategies, which can be broadly classified as 'innate' and 'adaptive'. The bacterial innate immune systems include defences provided by restriction modification and abortive infection, among others. Bacterial adaptive immunity is elicited by a diverse range of CRISPR-Cas systems. Here, I discuss our research on both innate and adaptive phage resistance mechanisms and some of the evasion strategies employed by phages.
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- Peter C Fineran
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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Jackson SA, Birkholz N, Malone LM, Fineran PC. Imprecise Spacer Acquisition Generates CRISPR-Cas Immune Diversity through Primed Adaptation. Cell Host Microbe 2019; 25:250-260.e4. [PMID: 30661951 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2018] [Revised: 10/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/14/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Many prokaryotes possess CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems to defend against viruses and invading mobile genetic elements. CRISPR-Cas immunity relies on genetic memories, termed spacers, for sequence-specific recognition of infections. The diversity of spacers within host populations is important for immune resilience, but we have limited understanding of how CRISPR diversity is generated. Type I CRISPR-Cas systems use existing spacers to enhance the acquisition of new spacers through primed CRISPR adaptation (priming). Here, we present a pathway to priming that is stimulated by imprecisely acquired (slipped) spacers. Slipped spacers are less effective for immunity but increase priming compared with canonical spacers. The benefits of slipping depend on the relative rates of phage mutation and adaptation during defense. We propose that slipped spacers provide a route to increase population-level spacer diversity that pre-empts phage escape mutant proliferation and that the trade-off between adaptation and immunity is important in diverse CRISPR-Cas systems.
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- Simon A Jackson
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
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Lee CM, Monson RE, Adams RM, Salmond GPC. The LacI-Family Transcription Factor, RbsR, Is a Pleiotropic Regulator of Motility, Virulence, Siderophore and Antibiotic Production, Gas Vesicle Morphogenesis and Flotation in Serratia. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1678. [PMID: 28955306 PMCID: PMC5601083 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2017] [Accepted: 08/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Gas vesicles (GVs) are proteinaceous, gas-filled organelles used by some bacteria to enable upward movement into favorable air/liquid interfaces in aquatic environments. Serratia sp. ATCC39006 (S39006) was the first enterobacterium discovered to produce GVs naturally. The regulation of GV assembly in this host is complex and part of a wider regulatory network affecting various phenotypes, including antibiotic biosynthesis. To identify new regulators of GVs, a comprehensive mutant library containing 71,000 insertion mutants was generated by random transposon mutagenesis and 311 putative GV-defective mutants identified. Three of these mutants were found to have a transposon inserted in a LacI family transcription regulator gene (rbsR) of the putative ribose operon. Each of these rbsR mutants was GV-defective; no GVs were visible by phase contrast microscopy (PCM) or transmission electron microscopy (TEM). GV deficiency was caused by the reduction of gvpA1 and gvrA transcription (the first genes of the two contiguous operons in the GV gene locus). Our results also showed that a mutation in rbsR was highly pleiotropic; the production of two secondary metabolites (carbapenem and prodigiosin antibiotics) was abolished. Interestingly, the intrinsic resistance to the carbapenem antibiotic was not affected by the rbsR mutation. In addition, the production of a siderophore, cellulase and plant virulence was reduced in the mutant, whereas it exhibited increased swimming and swarming motility. The RbsR protein was predicted to bind to regions upstream of at least 18 genes in S39006 including rbsD (the first gene of the ribose operon) and gvrA. Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) confirmed that RbsR bound to DNA sequences upstream of rbsD, but not gvrA. The results of this study indicate that RbsR is a global regulator that affects the modulation of GV biogenesis, but also with complex pleiotropic physiological impacts in S39006.
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Silas S, Lucas-Elio P, Jackson SA, Aroca-Crevillén A, Hansen LL, Fineran PC, Fire AZ, Sánchez-Amat A. Type III CRISPR-Cas systems can provide redundancy to counteract viral escape from type I systems. eLife 2017; 6:27601. [PMID: 28826484 PMCID: PMC5576922 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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CRISPR-Cas-mediated defense utilizes information stored as spacers in CRISPR arrays to defend against genetic invaders. We define the mode of target interference and role in antiviral defense for two CRISPR-Cas systems in Marinomonas mediterranea. One system (type I-F) targets DNA. A second system (type III-B) is broadly capable of acquiring spacers in either orientation from RNA and DNA, and exhibits transcription-dependent DNA interference. Examining resistance to phages isolated from Mediterranean seagrass meadows, we found that the type III-B machinery co-opts type I-F CRISPR-RNAs. Sequencing and infectivity assessments of related bacterial and phage strains suggests an ‘arms race’ in which phage escape from the type I-F system can be overcome through use of type I-F spacers by a horizontally-acquired type III-B system. We propose that the phage-host arms race can drive selection for horizontal uptake and maintenance of promiscuous type III interference modules that supplement existing host type I CRISPR-Cas systems.
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- Sukrit Silas
- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States.,Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.,Bio-Protection Research Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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Hampton HG, McNeil MB, Paterson TJ, Ney B, Williamson NR, Easingwood RA, Bostina M, Salmond GPC, Fineran PC. CRISPR-Cas gene-editing reveals RsmA and RsmC act through FlhDC to repress the SdhE flavinylation factor and control motility and prodigiosin production in Serratia. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2016; 162:1047-1058. [PMID: 27010574 PMCID: PMC5042078 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.000283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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SdhE is required for the flavinylation and activation of succinate dehydrogenase and fumarate reductase (FRD). In addition, SdhE is conserved in proteobacteria (α, β and γ) and eukaryotes. Although the function of this recently characterized family of proteins has been determined, almost nothing is known about how their genes are regulated. Here, the RsmA (CsrA) and RsmC (HexY) post-transcriptional and post-translational regulators have been identified and shown to repress sdhEygfX expression in Serratia sp. ATCC 39006. Conversely, the flagella master regulator complex, FlhDC, activated sdhEygfX transcription. To investigate the hierarchy of control, we developed a novel approach that utilized endogenous CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas (CRISPR associated) genome-editing by a type I-F system to generate a chromosomal point mutation in flhC. Mutation of flhC alleviated the ability of RsmC to repress sdhEygfX expression, whereas RsmA acted in both an FlhDC-dependent and -independent manner to inhibit sdhEygfX. Mutation of rsmA or rsmC, or overexpression of FlhDC, led to increased prodigiosin, biosurfactant, swimming and swarming. Consistent with the modulation of sdhE by motility regulators, we have demonstrated that SdhE and FRD are required for maximal flagella-dependent swimming. Together, these results demonstrate that regulators of both metabolism and motility (RsmA, RsmC and FlhDC) control the transcription of the sdhEygfX operon.
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- Hannah G Hampton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Otago Centre for Electron Microscopy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.,Otago Centre for Electron Microscopy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QW, UK
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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McNeil MB, Hampton HG, Hards KJ, Watson BNJ, Cook GM, Fineran PC. The succinate dehydrogenase assembly factor, SdhE, is required for the flavinylation and activation of fumarate reductase in bacteria. FEBS Lett 2013; 588:414-21. [PMID: 24374335 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2013] [Revised: 12/04/2013] [Accepted: 12/08/2013] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The activity of the respiratory enzyme fumarate reductase (FRD) is dependent on the covalent attachment of the redox cofactor flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD). We demonstrate that the FAD assembly factor SdhE, which flavinylates and activates the respiratory enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), is also required for the complete activation and flavinylation of FRD. SdhE interacted with, and flavinylated, the flavoprotein subunit FrdA, whilst mutations in a conserved RGxxE motif impaired the complete flavinylation and activation of FRD. These results are of widespread relevance because SDH and FRD play an important role in cellular energetics and are required for virulence in many important bacterial pathogens.
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- Matthew B McNeil
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
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