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The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae Free

Abstract

The human-pathogenic yersiniae represent an ideal species group to study the evolution of highly virulent bacteria, with having emerged from the enteropathogen an estimated 20 000 years ago. Sequence data reveal that the genome is in the early stages of decay and contains hundreds of non-functioning pseudogenes, some of which may be important in the enteric lifestyle of . Bioinformatic analysis of pseudogenes from seven genome sequences identified as a gene disrupted early in the evolution of this organism. This phosphotransfer protein is part the of the Rcs phosphorelay, a two-component system present in the which has been shown to regulate the expression of capsular polysaccharide and other virulence determinants in several species including and . Using microarray analysis, we determined that the Rcs phosphorelay regulates the expression of 136 coding sequences, of which 60 % are predicted to affect the cell envelope. Several putative virulence determinants were identified as being regulated by this phosphorelay, along with proteins involved in biofilm formation, motility, mammalian cell adhesion and stress survival. Phenotypic assays on defined mutants confirmed a role for the phosphorelay in these processes in both and .

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Keyword(s): CDS, coding sequence
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The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae
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