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ArticleGenetics1998

Salmonella virulence plasmid. Modular acquisition of the spv virulence region by an F-plasmid in Salmonella enterica subspecies I and insertion into the chromosome of subspecies II, IIIa, IV and VII isolates.

E F Boyd, D L Hartl

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Article in Genetics, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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E F BoydDepartment of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
D L Hartl
Harvard University · US

Funding

EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF INSERTION SEQUENCESR01GM040322 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI HARTL, DANIEL L. · 1988 to 1995
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM-40322
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spv operon is common to all Salmonella virulence plasmids. DNA hybridization analysis indicates that the spv region is limited in distribution to serovars of Salmonella enterica subspecies I, II, IIIa, IV, and VII and is absent from Salmonella bongori isolates. Among strains of subspecies II, IIIa, and VII, all isolates examined contained sequences that hybridized with the spv region. However, among isolates of subspecies I, DNA sequences capable of hybridizing with the spv region were found in some isolates of certain serovars. Furthermore, in isolates of subspecies I, the virulence plasmid was found in the same set of isolates as an F-related plasmid, as determined by the presence of the spv region of the virulence plasmid and the finO, traD, and repA sequences of the F-plasmid. The concordance of the virulence plasmid and all three F-plasmid sequences in subspecies I serovar Choleraesuis, Paratyphi, and Typhimurium is most easily explained if the spv region is carried in an F-related plasmid in these isolates. In contrast, among S. enterica subspecies II, IIIa, IV, and VII, the isolates that contain spv sequences did not hybridize with an F-related plasmid or any other identifiable plasmid. With the use of pulse-field gel electrophoresis, the spv region in subspecies II, IIIa, and VII was found to be encoded on the chromosome. Analysis of the phylogenetic distribution of spv among Salmonella isolates and comparative nucleotide sequence analysis of spvA and spvC suggests that the spv region was acquired very recently, after speciation of the salmonellae.

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Chromosomes, BacterialF FactorBase SequenceMutagenesis, InsertionalOperonPhylogenyPolymerase Chain ReactionPolymorphism, GeneticSalmonella entericaSalmonella enteritidisSalmonella paratyphi ASalmonella typhimuriumSequence AlignmentSequence DeletionSequence Homology, Nucleic AcidVirulence

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