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ArticleJournal of bacteriology2012

Structure, diversity, and mobility of the Salmonella pathogenicity island 7 family of integrative and conjugative elements within Enterobacteriaceae.

Helena M B Seth-Smith, Maria C Fookes, Chinyere K Okoro, Stephen Baker, Simon R Harris, Paul Scott, Derek Pickard, Michael A Quail, Carol Churcher, Mandy Sanders and 4 more

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Article in Journal of bacteriology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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14 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Helena M B Seth-SmithPathogen Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Maria C Fookes
Chinyere K Okoro
Stephen Baker
Simon R Harris
Paul Scott
Derek Pickard
Michael A Quail
Carol Churcher
Mandy Sanders
Johan Harmse
Gordon Dougan
Julian Parkhill
Nicholas R Thomson
Wellcome Sanger Institute · GBOxford University Clinical Research Unit · VN

Funding

Wellcome Trust 098051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are self-mobile genetic elements found in the genomes of some bacteria. These elements may confer a fitness advantage upon their host bacteria through the cargo genes that they carry. Salmonella pathogenicity island 7 (SPI-7), found within some pathogenic strains of Salmonella enterica, possesses features indicative of an ICE and carries genes implicated in virulence. We aimed to identify and fully analyze ICEs related to SPI-7 within the genus Salmonella and other Enterobacteriaceae. We report the sequence of two novel SPI-7-like elements, found within strains of Salmonella bongori, which share 97% nucleotide identity over conserved regions with SPI-7 and with each other. Although SPI-7 within Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi appears to be fixed within the chromosome, we present evidence that these novel elements are capable of excision and self-mobility. Phylogenetic analyses show that these Salmonella mobile elements share an ancestor which existed approximately 3.6 to 15.8 million years ago. Additionally, we identified more distantly related ICEs, with distinct cargo regions, within other strains of Salmonella as well as within Citrobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Photorhabdus, and Yersinia species. In total, we report on a collection of 17 SPI-7 related ICEs within enterobacterial species, of which six are novel. Using comparative and mutational studies, we have defined a core of 27 genes essential for conjugation. We present a growing family of SPI-7-related ICEs whose mobility, abundance, and cargo variability indicate that these elements may have had a large impact on the evolution of the Enterobacteriaceae.

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Genomic IslandsInterspersed Repetitive SequencesBacterial ProteinsCluster AnalysisDNA, BacterialDNA Mutational AnalysisEnterobacteriaceaeEvolution, MolecularGene Transfer, HorizontalMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenySequence Analysis, DNASequence Homology, Nucleic AcidVirulence FactorsBacterial ProteinsDNA, BacterialVirulence Factors

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PMID22247511
PMCPMC3294861
OpenAlexW1559862260

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