The Energy-Coupling Factor Transporter Module EcfAA'T, a Novel Candidate for the Genetic Basis of Fatty Acid-Auxotrophic Small-Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus

Frontiers in Microbiology
Nina SchleimerKarsten Becker

Abstract

Staphylococcal small-colony variants (SCVs) are invasive and persistent due to their ability to thrive intracellularly and to evade the host immune response. Thus, the course of infections due to this phenotype is often chronic, relapsing, and therapy-refractory. In order to improve treatment of patients suffering from SCV-associated infections, it is of major interest to understand triggers for the development of this phenotype, in particular for strains naturally occurring in clinical settings. Within this study, we comprehensively characterized two different Staphylococcus aureus triplets each consisting of isogenic strains comprising (i) clinically derived SCV phenotypes with auxotrophy for unsaturated fatty acids, (ii) the corresponding wild-types (WTs), and (iii) spontaneous in vitro revertants displaying the normal phenotype (REVs). Comparison of whole genomes revealed that clinical SCV isolates were closely related to their corresponding WTs and REVs showing only seven to eight alterations per genome triplet. However, both SCVs carried a mutation within the energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporter-encoding ecf module (EcfAA'T) resulting in truncated genes. In both cases, these mutations were shown to be naturally restor...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
electrophoresis
PCR
Knockout
amino acid exchange
nucleotide exchange

Software Mentioned

spaTyper
SnapGene
BLAST
PubMLST

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