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ArticlePLoS pathogens2015

RNA-seq Brings New Insights to the Intra-Macrophage Transcriptome of Salmonella Typhimurium.

Shabarinath Srikumar, Carsten Kröger, Magali Hébrard, Aoife Colgan, Siân V Owen, Sathesh K Sivasankaran, Andrew D S Cameron, Karsten Hokamp, Jay C D Hinton

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Article in PLoS pathogens, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers.

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152citing papers in PubMed
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152 citing papers in PubMed, 260 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Shabarinath SrikumarDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Carsten KrögerDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Magali HébrardDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Aoife ColganDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Siân V OwenInstitute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Sathesh K SivasankaranDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Andrew D S CameronDepartment of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Karsten HokampDepartment of Genetics, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Jay C D HintonDepartment of Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology, Moyne Institute of Preventive Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Trinity College Dublin · IEUniversity of Liverpool · GBUniversity of Regina · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is arguably the world's best-understood bacterial pathogen. However, crucial details about the genetic programs used by the bacterium to survive and replicate in macrophages have remained obscure because of the challenge of studying gene expression of intracellular pathogens during infection. Here, we report the use of deep sequencing (RNA-seq) to reveal the transcriptional architecture and gene activity of Salmonella during infection of murine macrophages, providing new insights into the strategies used by the pathogen to survive in a bactericidal immune cell. We characterized 3583 transcriptional start sites that are active within macrophages, and highlight 11 of these as candidates for the delivery of heterologous antigens from Salmonella vaccine strains. A majority (88%) of the 280 S. Typhimurium sRNAs were expressed inside macrophages, and SPI13 and SPI2 were the most highly expressed pathogenicity islands. We identified 31 S. Typhimurium genes that were strongly up-regulated inside macrophages but expressed at very low levels during in vitro growth. The SalComMac online resource allows the visualisation of every transcript expressed during bacterial replication within mammalian cells. This primary transcriptome of intra-macrophage S.-Typhimurium describes the transcriptional start sites and the transcripts responsible for virulence traits, and catalogues the sRNAs that may play a role in the regulation of gene expression during infection.

Indexed as

Bacterial ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenes, BacterialGenomic IslandsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMacrophagesRNA, BacterialSalmonella typhimuriumSalmonella VaccinesTranscriptomeVirulenceBacterial ProteinsRNA, BacterialSalmonella Vaccines

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PMID26561851
PMCPMC4643027
OpenAlexW2180930786

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