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Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300
USA300 is a predominant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain which carries an arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). ACME contains potential virulence factors including an arginine deiminase (arc) pathway and an oligopeptide permease (opp-3) system, which are pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32085445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020275 |
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author | Wu, Kaiyu Conly, John McClure, Jo-Ann Kurwa, Habib A. Zhang, Kunyan |
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description | USA300 is a predominant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain which carries an arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). ACME contains potential virulence factors including an arginine deiminase (arc) pathway and an oligopeptide permease (opp-3) system, which are proposed to play a role in bacterial virulence and transmission. However, the role of ACME in evolution and pathogenicity of USA300 remains to be elucidated. ACME and arcA deletion mutants were created by allelic replacement from a USA300 clinical isolate. By comparing wild type and isogenic ACME deletion USA300 strains, ACME was shown not to contribute to bacterial survival on plastic surfaces, and mouse skin surfaces. ACME did not contribute to bacterial virulence in cell invasion and cytotoxicity assays, invertebrate killing assays and a mouse skin infection model. Wild-type ACME negative USA300 clinical isolates showed similar associations with invasive anatomic sites as ACME positive isolates. Our experiments also demonstrated that ACME can spontaneously excise from the bacterial chromosome to generate an ACME deletion strain at a low frequency. Our results do not support that the ACME element alone is a significant factor in the transmission and virulence of USA300 strain, and ACME may have been coincidently incorporated into the genome of USA300. |
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spelling | pubmed-70748302020-03-20 Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 Wu, Kaiyu Conly, John McClure, Jo-Ann Kurwa, Habib A. Zhang, Kunyan Microorganisms Article USA300 is a predominant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain which carries an arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). ACME contains potential virulence factors including an arginine deiminase (arc) pathway and an oligopeptide permease (opp-3) system, which are proposed to play a role in bacterial virulence and transmission. However, the role of ACME in evolution and pathogenicity of USA300 remains to be elucidated. ACME and arcA deletion mutants were created by allelic replacement from a USA300 clinical isolate. By comparing wild type and isogenic ACME deletion USA300 strains, ACME was shown not to contribute to bacterial survival on plastic surfaces, and mouse skin surfaces. ACME did not contribute to bacterial virulence in cell invasion and cytotoxicity assays, invertebrate killing assays and a mouse skin infection model. Wild-type ACME negative USA300 clinical isolates showed similar associations with invasive anatomic sites as ACME positive isolates. Our experiments also demonstrated that ACME can spontaneously excise from the bacterial chromosome to generate an ACME deletion strain at a low frequency. Our results do not support that the ACME element alone is a significant factor in the transmission and virulence of USA300 strain, and ACME may have been coincidently incorporated into the genome of USA300. MDPI 2020-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7074830/ /pubmed/32085445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020275 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wu, Kaiyu Conly, John McClure, Jo-Ann Kurwa, Habib A. Zhang, Kunyan Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title | Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title_full | Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title_fullStr | Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title_full_unstemmed | Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title_short | Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element in Evolution and Pathogenicity of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain USA300 |
title_sort | arginine catabolic mobile element in evolution and pathogenicity of the community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus strain usa300 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074830/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32085445 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8020275 |
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