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Pan-Proteomic Analysis and Elucidation of Protein Abundance among the Closely Related Brucella Species, Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis. Biomolecules 2020; 10:biom10060836. [PMID: 32486122 PMCID: PMC7355635 DOI: 10.3390/biom10060836] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection caused by bacteria of the genus Brucella. The species, B. abortus and B. melitensis, major causative agents of human brucellosis, share remarkably similar genomes, but they differ in their natural hosts, phenotype, antigenic, immunogenic, proteomic and metabolomic properties. In the present study, label-free quantitative proteomic analysis was applied to investigate protein expression level differences. Type strains and field strains were each cultured six times, cells were harvested at a midlogarithmic growth phase and proteins were extracted. Following trypsin digestion, the peptides were desalted, separated by reverse-phase nanoLC, ionized using electrospray ionization and transferred into an linear trap quadrapole (LTQ) Orbitrap Velos mass spectrometer to record full scan MS spectra (m/z 300–1700) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) spectra of the 20 most intense ions. Database matching with the reference proteomes resulted in the identification of 826 proteins. The Cluster of Gene Ontologies of the identified proteins revealed differences in bimolecular transport and protein synthesis mechanisms between these two strains. Among several other proteins, antifreeze proteins, Omp10, superoxide dismutase and 30S ribosomal protein S14 were predicted as potential virulence factors among the proteins differentially expressed. All mass spectrometry data are available via ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD006348.
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Suárez-Esquivel M, Ruiz-Villalobos N, Castillo-Zeledón A, Jiménez-Rojas C, Roop Ii RM, Comerci DJ, Barquero-Calvo E, Chacón-Díaz C, Caswell CC, Baker KS, Chaves-Olarte E, Thomson NR, Moreno E, Letesson JJ, De Bolle X, Guzmán-Verri C. Brucella abortus Strain 2308 Wisconsin Genome: Importance of the Definition of Reference Strains. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1557. [PMID: 27746773 PMCID: PMC5041503 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2016] [Accepted: 09/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Brucellosis is a bacterial infectious disease affecting a wide range of mammals and a neglected zoonosis caused by species of the genetically homogenous genus Brucella. As in most studies on bacterial diseases, research in brucellosis is carried out by using reference strains as canonical models to understand the mechanisms underlying host pathogen interactions. We performed whole genome sequencing analysis of the reference strain B. abortus 2308 routinely used in our laboratory, including manual curated annotation accessible as an editable version through a link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucella#Genomics. Comparison of this genome with two publically available 2308 genomes showed significant differences, particularly indels related to insertional elements, suggesting variability related to the transposition of these elements within the same strain. Considering the outcome of high resolution genomic techniques in the bacteriology field, the conventional concept of strain definition needs to be revised.
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- Marcela Suárez-Esquivel
- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica Heredia, Costa Rica
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University Greenville, NC, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Dr. Rodolfo A. Ugalde", Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Grupo Pecuario, Centro Atómico Ezeiza Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa RicaHeredia, Costa Rica; Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteHinxton, UK; Department of Functional and Comparative Genomics, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of LiverpoolLiverpool, UK
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- Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica San José, Costa Rica
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteHinxton, UK; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineLondon, UK
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa RicaHeredia, Costa Rica; Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Universidad de Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
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- Unité de Recherche en Biologie des Microorganismes, Université de Namur Namur Belgium
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- Unité de Recherche en Biologie des Microorganismes, Université de Namur Namur Belgium
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- Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional de Costa RicaHeredia, Costa Rica; Centro de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa RicaSan José, Costa Rica
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The mglA gene and its flanking regions in Brucella: the role of mglA in tolerance to hostile environments, Fe-metabolism and in vivo persistence. Int J Med Microbiol 2012; 302:148-54. [PMID: 22534190 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2012.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2009] [Revised: 02/10/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We previously demonstrated that a spontaneous smooth small-colony variant of Brucella abortus S19 is characterized by increased in vivo persistence and the differential expression of a gene predicted to encode a galactoside transport ATP binding protein (mglA). In order to further investigate the role of this gene in the context of its flanking regions, we analyzed the respective DNA sequences from the formerly described B. abortus S19 as well as from avirulent B. neotomae 5K33 and compared these with published data from other Brucella species. Deletion mutagenesis of mglA in the large-colony variant of B. abortus S19 resulted in increased tolerance of the deletion mutant to a hyperosmotic (toxic), galactose-containing medium as well as to oxidative stress (H(2)O(2)). Whilst the deletion mutant is characterized by reduced growth on solid Fe(3+)-containing minimal medium (small-colony morphology), in vivo studies in mice demonstrated statistical significant differences in the bacterial load of spleens in the pre-immune, but not in the late phase of the infection.
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O'Callaghan D, Whatmore AM. Brucella genomics as we enter the multi-genome era. Brief Funct Genomics 2011; 10:334-41. [PMID: 21930657 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elr026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The genus Brucella includes species considered among the worlds most important zoonotic pathogens, with brucellosis remaining a significant problem in large parts of the world. Over the last decade a number of Brucella genomes have been fully sequenced providing new insights into this relatively poorly understood group of organisms. In the forthcoming months and years, the availability of many additional genomes should help in further understanding of the evolution, host specificity and pathogenicity of this group as well as providing a resource to further improve epidemiological typing tools. This article describes progress to date and looks forward to the opportunities that should be afforded as we enter an era of multiple, freely available, Brucella genome sequences.
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Sernova NV, Gelfand MS. Identification of replication origins in prokaryotic genomes. Brief Bioinform 2008; 9:376-91. [PMID: 18660512 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbn031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The availability of hundreds of complete bacterial genomes has created new challenges and simultaneously opportunities for bioinformatics. In the area of statistical analysis of genomic sequences, the studies of nucleotide compositional bias and gene bias between strands and replichores paved way to the development of tools for prediction of bacterial replication origins. Only a few (about 20) origin regions for eubacteria and archaea have been proven experimentally. One reason for that may be that this is now considered as an essentially bioinformatics problem, where predictions are sufficiently reliable not to run labor-intensive experiments, unless specifically needed. Here we describe the main existing approaches to the identification of replication origin (oriC) and termination (terC) loci in prokaryotic chromosomes and characterize a number of computational tools based on various skew types and other types of evidence. We also classify the eubacterial and archaeal chromosomes by predictability of their replication origins using skew plots. Finally, we discuss possible combined approaches to the identification of the oriC sites that may be used to improve the prediction tools, in particular, the analysis of DnaA binding sites using the comparative genomic methods.
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- Natalia V Sernova
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute), Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoi Karetny pereulok, 19, Moscow, 127994, Russia
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Eschenbrenner M, Horn TA, Wagner MA, Mujer CV, Miller-Scandle TL, DelVecchio VG. Comparative Proteome Analysis of Laboratory Grown Brucella abortus 2308 and Brucella melitensis 16M. J Proteome Res 2006; 5:1731-40. [PMID: 16823981 DOI: 10.1021/pr060135p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Brucella species are pathogenic agents that cause brucellosis, a debilitating zoonotic disease that affects a large variety of domesticated animals and humans. Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus are considered major health threats because of their highly infectious nature and worldwide occurrence. The availability of the annotated genomes for these two species has allowed a comparative proteomics study of laboratory grown B. melitensis 16M and B. abortus 2308 by two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis and peptide mass fingerprinting. Computer-assisted analysis of the different 2-D gel images of strains 16M and 2308 revealed significant quantitative and qualitative differences in their protein expression patterns. Proteins involved in membrane transport, particularly the high affinity amino acids binding proteins, and those involved in Sec-dependent secretion systems related to type IV and type V secretion systems, were differentially expressed. Differential expression of these proteins may be responsible for conferring specific host preference in the two strains 2308 and 16M.
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- Michel Eschenbrenner
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, The University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania 18510, USA.
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Chain PSG, Comerci DJ, Tolmasky ME, Larimer FW, Malfatti SA, Vergez LM, Aguero F, Land ML, Ugalde RA, Garcia E. Whole-genome analyses of speciation events in pathogenic Brucellae. Infect Immun 2006; 73:8353-61. [PMID: 16299333 PMCID: PMC1307078 DOI: 10.1128/iai.73.12.8353-8361.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Despite their high DNA identity and a proposal to group classical Brucella species as biovars of Brucella melitensis, the commonly recognized Brucella species can be distinguished by distinct biochemical and fatty acid characters, as well as by a marked host range (e.g., Brucella suis for swine, B. melitensis for sheep and goats, and Brucella abortus for cattle). Here we present the genome of B. abortus 2308, the virulent prototype biovar 1 strain, and its comparison to the two other human pathogenic Brucella species and to B. abortus field isolate 9-941. The global distribution of pseudogenes, deletions, and insertions supports previous indications that B. abortus and B. melitensis share a common ancestor that diverged from B. suis. With the exception of a dozen genes, the genetic complements of both B. abortus strains are identical, whereas the three species differ in gene content and pseudogenes. The pattern of species-specific gene inactivations affecting transcriptional regulators and outer membrane proteins suggests that these inactivations may play an important role in the establishment of host specificity and may have been a primary driver of speciation in the genus Brucella. Despite being nonmotile, the brucellae contain flagellum gene clusters and display species-specific flagellar gene inactivations, which lead to the putative generation of different versions of flagellum-derived structures and may contribute to differences in host specificity and virulence. Metabolic changes such as the lack of complete metabolic pathways for the synthesis of numerous compounds (e.g., glycogen, biotin, NAD, and choline) are consistent with adaptation of brucellae to an intracellular life-style.
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- Patrick S G Chain
- Biosciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, USA
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Tsoktouridis G, Merz CA, DelVecchio VG. Adaptor long-range PCR procedure for clone-specific characterization and chromosomal localization. Biotechniques 2005; 38:885-8. [PMID: 16018549 DOI: 10.2144/05386st02] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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An efficient adaptor long-range PCR (ALR-PCR) procedure was developed to detect genomic rearrangements in high-plasticity genomic regions between closely related strains of bacteria. The method was precisely optimized using a combination of high-speed experimental steps for the chromosomal localization and elucidation of deletions, inversions, duplications, or inserted sequences within a clone-specific flanking region. The advantages of this strategy are: (i) ready-to-use polymerase mixtures and Master mix (ready-to-use reaction mixtures with polymerase MasterAmp and buffer 2x Premix 4); (ii) a 5-min ligation procedure; (iii) rapid purification of DNA digests; (iv) optimized DNA template concentration protocol to avoid nonspecific amplification and high backgrounds; (v) long-range PCR protocol to obtain at least 9.6 kb single PCR products; (vi) two-step PCR cycling with the same annealing and extension temperature at 68 degrees C; (vii) simple design of the adaptors according to the preferred restriction endonuclease enzyme; and (viii) simple technology and equipment required. The application of this method for a tester-specific suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) clone of Brucella melitensis 16M revealed an 837-bp deletion and a 7255-bp DNA transfer from one chromosomal location to another for Brucella abortus 2308 used as a driver.
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- Georgios Tsoktouridis
- Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510-4625, USA.
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Sällström B, Andersson SGE. Genome reduction in the α-Proteobacteria. Curr Opin Microbiol 2005; 8:579-85. [PMID: 16099701 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2005.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2005] [Accepted: 08/03/2005] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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More than 20 alpha-proteobacterial genomes are currently available. These range in size from 1-9 Mb and represent excellent model systems for evolutionary studies of the organizational features of bacterial genomes. Computational inferences have shown that genome reductions have occurred independently in lineages such as Rickettsia and Bartonella that are associated with intracellular lifestyles. Analyses of these reduced genomes have provided insights into the evolution of vector-borne transmission pathways. Further research into the population biology of bacteria, arthropods and vertebrate hosts will help to refine the biology of host-pathogen interactions and will facilitate the design of vaccines and vector-control programs.
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- Björn Sällström
- Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18C, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
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Jacob J, Hort GM, Overhoff P, Mielke MEA. In vitro and in vivo characterization of smooth small colony variants of Brucella abortus S19. Microbes Infect 2005; 8:363-71. [PMID: 16239117 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2005.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2005] [Revised: 06/14/2005] [Accepted: 07/01/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Brucella abortus is known to produce chronic infections in both humans and a variety of animal species. However, the mechanisms underlying the persistence of the bacteria in the presence of an ongoing immune response are still unknown. In this respect we made use of the observation that in vitro grown B. abortus S19 exhibits heterogenicity in colony size when plated onto TS agar, while experimental infection of mice uniformly results in the in vivo selection of the small colony variant. We demonstrate that the spontaneous smooth small colony variant is characterized not only by a slower growth rate in vitro but also by an increased tolerance to hyperosmotic medium and, most importantly, a less effective clearance from spleens and livers of experimentally infected mice. On a molecular level, a gene with homology to a formerly described galactoside transport ATP binding protein (mglA) was differentially expressed in small versus large colonies of B. abortus S19.
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- J Jacob
- Robert Koch-Institut, Nordufer 20, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
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Halling SM, Peterson-Burch BD, Bricker BJ, Zuerner RL, Qing Z, Li LL, Kapur V, Alt DP, Olsen SC. Completion of the genome sequence of Brucella abortus and comparison to the highly similar genomes of Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:2715-26. [PMID: 15805518 PMCID: PMC1070361 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.8.2715-2726.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 229] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2004] [Accepted: 01/14/2005] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Brucellosis is a worldwide disease of humans and livestock that is caused by a number of very closely related classical Brucella species in the alpha-2 subdivision of the Proteobacteria. We report the complete genome sequence of Brucella abortus field isolate 9-941 and compare it to those of Brucella suis 1330 and Brucella melitensis 16 M. The genomes of these Brucella species are strikingly similar, with nearly identical genetic content and gene organization. However, a number of insertion-deletion events and several polymorphic regions encoding putative outer membrane proteins were identified among the genomes. Several fragments previously identified as unique to either B. suis or B. melitensis were present in the B. abortus genome. Even though several fragments were shared between only B. abortus and B. suis, B. abortus shared more fragments and had fewer nucleotide polymorphisms with B. melitensis than B. suis. The complete genomic sequence of B. abortus provides an important resource for further investigations into determinants of the pathogenicity and virulence phenotypes of these bacteria.
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- Shirley M Halling
- Bacterial Diseases of Livestock Unit, NADC, ARS, USDA, 2300 Dayton Ave., Ames, IA 50010, USA.
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