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ArticleAMB Express2018

Occurrence and significance of pathogenicity and fitness islands in environmental vibrios.

Savannah Klein, Shannon Pipes, Charles R Lovell

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Article in AMB Express, 2018. 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
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Savannah KleinDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 715 Sumter St, Room 401, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA.
Shannon PipesDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 715 Sumter St, Room 401, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA.
Charles R LovellDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, 715 Sumter St, Room 401, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA. lovell@biol.sc.edu.
University of South Carolina Sumter · US

Funding

Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina (US), South Carolina Floods Research Initiative 1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogenicity islands (PAIs) are large genomic regions that contain virulence genes, which aid pathogens in establishing infections. While PAIs in clinical strains (strains isolated from a human infection) are well-studied, less is known about the occurrence of PAIs in strains isolated from the environment. In this study we describe three PAIs found in environmental Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains, as well as a genomic fitness island found in a Vibrio diabolicus strain. All four islands had markedly different GC profiles than the rest of the genome, indicating that all of these islands were acquired via lateral gene transfer. Genes on the PAIs and fitness island were characterized. The PAI found in V. parahaemolyticus contained the tdh gene, a collagenase gene, and genes involved in the type 3 secretion system II (T3SS2). A V. vulnificus environmental strain contained two PAIs, a small 25 kbp PAI and a larger 143 kbp PAI. Both PAIs contained virulence genes. Toxin-antitoxin (TA) genes were found in all three species: on the V. diabolicus fitness island, and on the V. parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus PAIs.

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Pathogenicity islandsVibrio parahaemolyticusVibrio vulnificus

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PMID30377851
PMCPMC6207609
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