Growth and Stress Tolerance Comprise Independent Metabolic Strategies Critical for Staphylococcus aureus Infection.

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Gyu-Lee KimDane Parker

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen that leads to high morbidity and mortality. Although S. aureus produces many factors important for pathogenesis, few have been validated as playing a role in the pathogenesis of S. aureus pneumonia. To gain a better understanding of the genetic elements required for S. aureus pathogenesis in the airway, we performed an unbiased genome-wide transposon sequencing (Tn-seq) screen in a model of acute murine pneumonia. We identified 136 genes important for bacterial survival during infection, with a high proportion involved in metabolic processes. Phenotyping 80 individual deletion mutants through diverse in vitro and in vivo assays demonstrated that metabolism is linked to several processes, which include biofilm formation, growth, and resistance to host stressors. We further validated the importance of 23 mutations in pneumonia. Multivariate and principal-component analyses identified two key metabolic mechanisms enabling infection in the airway, growth (e.g., the ability to replicate and form biofilms) and resistance to host stresses. As deep validation of these hypotheses, we investigated the role of pyruvate carboxylase, which was important across multiple infection models and conf...Continue Reading

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