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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2011

Identification of cold-temperature-regulated genes in Flavobacterium psychrophilum.

Shohreh Hesami, Devon S Metcalf, John S Lumsden, Janet I Macinnes

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shohreh HesamiDepartment of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
Devon S Metcalf
John S Lumsden
Janet I Macinnes
University of Guelph · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Flavobacterium psychrophilum is the etiological agent of bacterial coldwater disease (BCWD) and rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS). It causes disease primarily in fresh water-reared salmonids, but other fish species can also be affected. A diverse array of clinical conditions is associated with BCWD, including tail rot (peduncle disease), necrotic myositis, and cephalic osteochondritis. Degradation of connective and muscular tissues by extracellular proteases is common to all of these presentations. There are no effective vaccines to prevent BCWD or RTFS, and antibiotics are often used to prevent and control disease. To identify virulence factors that might permit development of an efficacious vaccine, cDNA suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) was used to identify cold-regulated genes in a virulent strain of F. psychrophilum. Genes predicted to encode a two-component system sensor histidine kinase (LytS), an ATP-dependent RNA helicase, a multidrug ABC transporter permease/ATPase, an outer membrane protein/protective antigen OMA87, an M43 cytophagalysin zinc-dependent metalloprotease, a hypothetical protein, and four housekeeping genes were upregulated at 8°C versus the level of expression at 20°C. Because no F. psychrophilum gene was known to be suitable as an internal standard in reverse transcription-quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) experiments, the expression stability of nine commonly used reference genes was evaluated at 8°C and 20°C. Expression of the 16S rRNA was equivalent at both temperatures, and this gene was used in RT-qPCR experiments to verify the SSH findings. With the exception of the ATCC 49513 strain, similar patterns of gene expression were obtained with 11 other representative strains of F. psychrophilum.

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Cold TemperatureGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialStress, PhysiologicalAnimalsFlavobacteriumGene LibraryNucleic Acid HybridizationRNA, Ribosomal, 16SVirulence FactorsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SVirulence Factors

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PMID21216906
PMCPMC3067270
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