Effect of Inactivation of degS on Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium In Vitro and In Vivo
AUTOR(ES)
Rowley, Gary
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The alternative sigma factor (RpoE σE) enables Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to adapt to stressful conditions, such as oxidative stress, nutrient deprivation, and growth in mammalian tissues. Infection of mice by Salmonella serovar Typhimurium also requires σE. In Escherichia coli, activation of the σE pathway is dependent on proteolysis of the anti-sigma factor RseA and is initiated by DegS. DegS is also important in order for E. coli to cause extraintestinal infection in mice. We constructed a degS mutant of the serovar Typhimurium strain SL1344 and compared its behavior in vitro and in vivo with those of its wild-type (WT) parent and an isogenic rpoE mutant. Unlike E. coli degS strains, the Salmonella serovar Typhimurium degS strain grew as well as the WT strain at 42°C. The degS mutant survived very poorly in murine macrophages in vitro and was highly attenuated compared with the WT strain for both the oral and parenteral routes of infection in mice. However, the degS mutant was not as attenuated as the serovar Typhimurium rpoE mutant: 100- to 1,000-fold more degS bacteria than rpoE bacteria were present in the livers and spleens of mice 24 h after intraperitoneal challenge. In most assays, the rpoE mutant was more severely affected than the degS mutant and a σE-dependent reporter gene was more active in the degS mutant than the rpoE strain. These findings indicate that degS is important for activation of the σE pathway in serovar Typhimurium but that alternative pathways for σE activation probably exist.
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