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A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an increasingly recognized pathogen associated with acute and persistent diarrhea worldwide. While EAEC strains are considered highly heterogeneous, aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAFs) are thought to play a pivotal role in pathogenicity by facilitating...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28275371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00263 |
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author | Jønsson, Rie Struve, Carsten Boll, Erik J. Boisen, Nadia Joensen, Katrine G. Sørensen, Camilla A. Jensen, Betina H. Scheutz, Flemming Jenssen, Håvard Krogfelt, Karen A. |
author_facet | Jønsson, Rie Struve, Carsten Boll, Erik J. Boisen, Nadia Joensen, Katrine G. Sørensen, Camilla A. Jensen, Betina H. Scheutz, Flemming Jenssen, Håvard Krogfelt, Karen A. |
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description | Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an increasingly recognized pathogen associated with acute and persistent diarrhea worldwide. While EAEC strains are considered highly heterogeneous, aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAFs) are thought to play a pivotal role in pathogenicity by facilitating adherence to the intestinal mucosa. In this study, we optimized an existing multiplex PCR to target all known AAF variants, which are distinguished by differences in their pilin subunits. We applied the assay on a collection of 162 clinical Danish EAEC strains and interestingly found six, by SNP analysis phylogenetically distinct, strains harboring the major pilin subunits from both AAF/III and AAF/V. Whole-genome and plasmid sequencing revealed that in these six strains the agg3A and agg5A genes were located on a novel pAA plasmid variant. Moreover, the plasmid also encoded several other virulence genes including some not previously found on pAA plasmids. Thus, this plasmid endows the host strains with a remarkably high number of EAEC associated virulence genes hereby likely promoting strain pathogenicity. |
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spelling | pubmed-53205622017-03-08 A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Jønsson, Rie Struve, Carsten Boll, Erik J. Boisen, Nadia Joensen, Katrine G. Sørensen, Camilla A. Jensen, Betina H. Scheutz, Flemming Jenssen, Håvard Krogfelt, Karen A. Front Microbiol Microbiology Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) is an increasingly recognized pathogen associated with acute and persistent diarrhea worldwide. While EAEC strains are considered highly heterogeneous, aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAFs) are thought to play a pivotal role in pathogenicity by facilitating adherence to the intestinal mucosa. In this study, we optimized an existing multiplex PCR to target all known AAF variants, which are distinguished by differences in their pilin subunits. We applied the assay on a collection of 162 clinical Danish EAEC strains and interestingly found six, by SNP analysis phylogenetically distinct, strains harboring the major pilin subunits from both AAF/III and AAF/V. Whole-genome and plasmid sequencing revealed that in these six strains the agg3A and agg5A genes were located on a novel pAA plasmid variant. Moreover, the plasmid also encoded several other virulence genes including some not previously found on pAA plasmids. Thus, this plasmid endows the host strains with a remarkably high number of EAEC associated virulence genes hereby likely promoting strain pathogenicity. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5320562/ /pubmed/28275371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00263 Text en Copyright © 2017 Jønsson, Struve, Boll, Boisen, Joensen, Sørensen, Jensen, Scheutz, Jenssen and Krogfelt. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Jønsson, Rie Struve, Carsten Boll, Erik J. Boisen, Nadia Joensen, Katrine G. Sørensen, Camilla A. Jensen, Betina H. Scheutz, Flemming Jenssen, Håvard Krogfelt, Karen A. A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title | A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title_full | A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title_fullStr | A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title_full_unstemmed | A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title_short | A Novel pAA Virulence Plasmid Encoding Toxins and Two Distinct Variants of the Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli |
title_sort | novel paa virulence plasmid encoding toxins and two distinct variants of the fimbriae of enteroaggregative escherichia coli |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5320562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28275371 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00263 |
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