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ArticlePloS one2014

relA enhances the adherence of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Beny Spira, Gerson Moura Ferreira, Luiz Gustavo de Almeida

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beny SpiraDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Cêincias Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
Gerson Moura FerreiraDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Cêincias Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
Luiz Gustavo de AlmeidaDepartamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Cêincias Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a known causative agent of diarrhea in children. In the process of colonization of the small intestine, EPEC synthesizes two types of adhesins, the bundle-forming pilus (BFP) and intimin. The BFP pilus is an adhesin associated with the initial stages of adherence of EPEC to epithelial cells, while the outer membrane protein intimin carries out the intimate adherence that takes place at the third stage of infection. BFP is encoded by the bfp operon located in plasmid EAF, present only in typical EPEC isolates, while eae, the gene that encodes intimin is situated in the LEE, a chromosomal pathogenicity island. Transcription of bfp and eae is regulated by the products of the perABC operon, also present in plasmid EAF. Here we show that deletion of relA, that encodes a guanosine penta and tetraphosphate synthetase impairs EPEC adherence to epithelial cells in vitro. In the absence of relA, the transcription of the regulatory operon perABC is reduced, resulting in lower levels of BFP and intimin. Bacterial adherence, BFP and intimin synthesis and perABC expression are restored upon complementation with the wild-type relA allele.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialAdhesins, BacterialBacterial AdhesionEnteropathogenic Escherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsFimbriae ProteinsGene DeletionGenetic Complementation TestGenomic IslandsLigasesOperonProtein SubunitsAdhesins, BacterialBfpA protein, E colieaeA protein, E coliEscherichia coli ProteinsFimbriae Proteinsguanosine 3',5'-polyphosphate synthetasesLigasesProtein Subunits

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PMID24643076
PMCPMC3958371
OpenAlexW1987680520

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