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ArticleInfection and immunity2000

Invasion genes are not required for Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium to breach the intestinal epithelium: evidence that salmonella pathogenicity island 1 has alternative functions during infection.

R A Murray, C A Lee

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

R A MurrayDepartment of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
C A Lee
Harvard University · US

Funding

GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SALMONELLA INVASIONR01AI033444 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI LEE, CATHERINE A · 1994 to 2001
$613k
NIAID NIH HHS R01-AI33444
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion genes are necessary for bacterial invasion of intestinal epithelial cells and are thought to allow salmonellae to enter and cross the intestinal epithelium during infection. Many invasion genes are encoded on Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI1), and their expression is activated by HilA, a transcription factor also encoded on SPI1. We have studied the role of Salmonella invasion genes during infection of mice following intragastric inoculation. We have found that strains containing a mutation in hilA or invG were recovered from the intestinal contents, intestinal tissues, and systemic tissues at a lower frequency than their parental wild-type strain. In contrast, a strain in which SPI1 is deleted was recovered from infected mice at a frequency similar to that of its parental wild-type strain. The DeltaSPI1 phenotype indicates that S. enterica does not require invasion genes to cross the intestinal epithelium and infect systemic tissues. This result has forced us to reconsider the long-held belief that invasion genes directly mediate bacterial infection of the intestinal mucosa and traversion of the intestinal barrier during infection. Instead, our results suggest that hilA is required for bacterial colonization of the host intestine. The seemingly contradictory phenotype of the DeltaSPI1 mutant suggests that deletion of another gene(s) encoded on SPI1 suppresses the hilA mutant defect. We propose a model for S. enterica pathogenesis in which hilA and invasion genes are required for salmonellae to overcome a host clearance response elicited by another SPI1 gene product(s).

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Genes, BacterialAnimalsBacterial ProteinsFemaleIntestinal MucosaLethal Dose 50MiceMice, Inbred BALB CSalmonella typhimuriumTrans-ActivatorsVirulenceBacterial ProteinsHilA protein, SalmonellaSpi1 protein, SalmonellaTrans-Activators

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PMID10948124
PMCPMC101735
OpenAlexW1984225158

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