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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2012

Evolution of the capsular operon of Streptococcus iniae in response to vaccination.

Candice M Millard, Justice C F Baiano, Candy Chan, Benedict Yuen, Fabian Aviles, Matt Landos, Roger S M Chong, Suresh Benedict, Andrew C Barnes

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Candice M MillardSchool of Biological Sciences and Centre for Marine Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Justice C F Baiano
Candy Chan
Benedict Yuen
Fabian Aviles
Matt Landos
Roger S M Chong
Suresh Benedict
Andrew C Barnes
University of Queensland · AUCSIRO Health and Biosecurity · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Streptococcus iniae causes severe septicemia and meningitis in farmed fish and is also occasionally zoonotic. Vaccination against S. iniae is problematic, with frequent breakdown of protection in vaccinated fish. The major protective antigens in S. iniae are the polysaccharides of the capsule, which are essential for virulence. Capsular biosynthesis is driven and regulated by a 21-kb operon comprising up to 20 genes. In a long-term study, we have sequenced the capsular operon of strains that have been used in autogenous vaccines across Australia and compared it with the capsular operon sequences of strains subsequently isolated from infected vaccinated fish. Intriguingly, strains isolated from vaccinated fish that subsequently become infected have coding mutations that are confined to a limited number of genes in the cps operon, with the remainder of the genes in the operon remaining stable. Mutations in strains in diseased vaccinated fish occur in key genes in the capsular operon that are associated with polysaccharide configuration (cpsG) and with regulation of biosynthesis (cpsD and cpsE). This, along with high ratios of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations within the cps genes, suggests that immune response directed predominantly against capsular polysaccharide may be driving evolution in a very specific set of genes in the operon. From these data, it may be possible to design a simple polyvalent vaccine with a greater operational life span than the current monovalent killed bacterins.

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Evolution, MolecularAnimalsAustraliaBacterial CapsulesBiosynthetic PathwaysDNA, BacterialDNA Mutational AnalysisFish DiseasesFishesMolecular Sequence DataOperonSelection, GeneticSequence Analysis, DNAStreptococcal InfectionsStreptococcal VaccinesStreptococcusDNA, BacterialStreptococcal Vaccines

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PMID23001668
PMCPMC3497394
OpenAlexW1983316306

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