PMID: 29756734May 15, 2018Paper

Putative regulatory protein STM14_3514 decreases Salmonella Typhimurium invasion of epithelial cells

Wei sheng wu xue bao = Acta microbiologica Sinica
Lingyan JiangLu Feng

Abstract

To study the function and mechanism of STM14_3514 gene that encoded in Salmonella pathogenicity island (SPI)-1 of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain ATCC 14028. We constructed STM14_3514 mutant strain and a complemented strain of the mutant. Through mice experiment, attachment assays, invasion assays, macrophage replication assays, western blot, and Quantitative real-time PCR analysis (qRT-PCR), we compared the virulence of the mutant strain to that of the wild-type 14028. STM14_3514 mutant shows increased virulence to mice, and the bacterial number of STM14_3514 mutant in liver, spleen, and ileum was more abundant than that of the wild-type strain. The increased virulence of STM14_3514 mutant is caused by its elevated invasion ability to epithelial cells (>2-fold and P<0.05). qRT-PCR and western blot results show that STM14_3514 reduced the expression of HilA and another SPI-1invasion locus. Moreover, the repression of HilA by STM14_3514 is mediated by HilC. STM14_3514 is a negative regulator in SPI-1, which can repress HilA and SPI-1invasion locus through HilC, and possibly contribute to the repression on SPI-1 after bacterial invasion.

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