ReviewMicrobial ecology2004
The recent emergence of plague: a process of felonious evolution.
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- The Evolution of a Specialized, Highly Virulent Fish Pathogen through Gene Loss and Acquisition of Host-Specific Survival Mechanisms.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Pentaplex real-time PCR for differential detection of Yersinia pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis and application for testing fleas collected during plague epizootics.MicrobiologyOpen · 2020Article
- Structural Insights into the Yersinia pestis Outer Membrane Protein Ail in Lipid Bilayers.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2017Article
- Backbone structure of Yersinia pestis Ail determined in micelles by NMR-restrained simulated annealing with implicit membrane solvation.Journal of biomolecular NMR · 2015Article
- Early emergence of Yersinia pestis as a severe respiratory pathogen.Nature communications · 2015Article
- Influence of the lipid membrane environment on structure and activity of the outer membrane protein Ail from Yersinia pestis.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2015Article
- Plague in Guinea pigs and its prevention by subunit vaccines.The American journal of pathology · 2011Article
- Expression, refolding, and initial structural characterization of the Y. pestis Ail outer membrane protein in lipids.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2011Article
- Yersinia pestis and host macrophages: immunodeficiency of mouse macrophages induced by YscW.Immunology · 2009Article
- A surface-focused biotinylation procedure identifies the Yersinia pestis catalase KatY as a membrane-associated but non-surface-located protein.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2007Article
- Recent findings regarding maintenance of enzootic variants of Yersinia pestis in sylvatic reservoirs and their significance in the evolution of epidemic plague.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.)Article
- Adaptive strategies of Yersinia pestis to persist during inter-epizootic and epizootic periods.Veterinary researchReview
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Abstract
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of bubonic plague, evolved from closely related Yersinia pseudotuberculosis within the past 20,000 years, an event that corresponds to the end of the last ice age and distribution of Homo sapiens throughout the world. Y. pseudotuberculosis causes chronic but generally mild enteropathogenic infections whereas plague is the most devastating acute disease experienced by mankind. The very recent evolution of plague from its progenitor assures close genomic homogeneity between the two species and thus high probability that disparities in DNA sequence mediate dramatic differences in symptoms of infection. The purpose of this minireview is to define salient distinctions between the genomes of Y. pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis and to equate unique functions to respective acute and chronic mechanisms of virulence. The significance of these processes is then related to the procedures the organisms use to survive when between hosts (i.e., the flea vector colonized by Y. pestis and natural environments including soil and water in the case of Y. pseudotuberculosis). Next, an attempt is made to order the various mutational events that caused the recent emergence of Y. pestis as a distinct species. Finally, selective pressures such as predatory soil nematodes are considered that possibly influenced the early evolution of those yersiniae now pathogenic to humans.
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