Role of flagellum and motility in pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 4905-4910

  Lee, Jong Ho ^a   Rho, Jong Bok ^b   Park, Kyung Je ^b   Kim, Chang Beom ^b   Han, Yang Soo ^b   Choi, Sang Ho ^c   Lee, Kyu Ho ^b   Park, Soon Jung ^a,d  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Hankuk University of Foreign Studies   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLGE GENE; GENE DELETION; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; FLAGELLA; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MUTATION; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 3342927580     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.8.4905-4910.2004     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Bahrani, K., and J. D. Oliver. 1990. Studies on the lipopolysaccharide of virulent and avirulent strains of Vibrio vulnificus. Biochem. Cell Biol. 68:547-551.
2. Boettcher, K. J., and E. G. Ruby. 1990. Depressed light emission by symbiotic Vibrio fischeri of the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes. J. Bacteriol. 172: 3701-3706.
3. Giron, J. A., A. G. Torres, E. Freer, and J. B. Kaper. 2002. The flagella of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli mediate adherence to epithelial cells. Mol. Microbiol. 44:361-379.
4. Greenberg, E. P., J. W. Hastings, and S. Ulitzur. 1979. Induction of luciferase synthesis in Beneckea harveyi by other marine bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 120:87-91.
5. Homma, M., K. Kutsukake, M. Hasebe, T. Iino, and R. M. Macnab. 1990. FlgB, FlgC, FlgF and FlgG. A family of structurally related proteins in the flagellar basal body of Salmonella typhimurium. J. Mol. Biol. 211:465-477.
6. Jeong, H. S., K. C. Jeong, H. K. Choi, K.-J. Park, K.-H. Lee, J. H. Rhee, and S. H. Choi. 2001. Differential expression of Vibrio vulnificus elastase gene in a growth phase-dependent manner by two different types of promoters. J. Biol. Chem. 276:13875-13880.
7. Keen, N. T., S. Tamaki, D. Kobayashi, and D. Trollinger. 1998. Improved broad-host-range plasmids for DNA cloning in gram-negative bacteria. Gene 7:191-197.
8. Kim, Y. R., and R. H. Rhee. 2003. Flagellar basal body flg operon as a virulence determinant of Vibrio vulnificus. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 304:405-410.
9. Miller, V. L., and J. J. Mekalanos. 1988. A novel suicidal vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR. J. Bacteriol. 170:2575-2583.
10. Morgan, D. G., R. M. Macnab, N. R. Francis, and D. J. DeRosier. 1993. Domain organization of the subunit of the Salmonella typhimurium flagellar hook. J. Mol. Biol. 229:79-84.
11. Morris, J. G. 1988. Vibrio vulnificus - a new monster of the deep? Ann. Intern. Med. 109:261-263.
12. Ohnishi, K., Y. Ohto, S. Aizawa, R. M. Macnab, and T. Iino. 1994. FlgD is a scaffolding protein needed for flagellar hook assembly in Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 176:2272-2281.
13. O'Toole, G. A., and R. Kolter. 1998. The initiation of biofilm formation in Pseudomonas fluorescens WCS365 proceeds via multiple, convergent signaling pathways: a genetic analysis. Mol. Microbiol. 30:449-461.
14. Otterman, K. M., and J. F. Miller. 1997. Roles of motility in bacterial-host interactions. Mol. Microbiol. 24:1109-1117.
15. Paranjpye, R. N., J. C. Lara, J. C. Pepe, C. M. Pepe, and M. S. Strom. 1998. The type IV leader peptidase/N-methyltransferase of Vibrio vulnificus controls factors required for adherence to HEp-2 cells and virulence in iron-overloaded mice. Infect. Immun. 16:5659-5668.
16. Reed, L. J., and H. Muench. 1938. A simple method of estimating the 50% endpoints. Am. J. Hyg. 27:493-497.
17. Richardson, K. 1991. Roles of motility and flagellar structure in pathogenicity of Vibrio cholerae: analysis of motility mutants in three animal models. Infect. Immun. 59:2727-2736.
18. Skorupski, K., and R. K. Taylor. 1996. Positive selection vectors for allelic exchange. Gene 169:47-52.
19. Starks, A. M., T. R. Schoeb, M. L. Tamplin, S. Parveen, T. J. Doyle, P. E. Bomeisl, G. M. Escudero, and P. A. Gulig. 2000. Pathogenesis of infection by clinical and environmental strains of Vibrio vulnificus in iron-dextran-treated mice. Infect. Immun. 68:5785-5793.
20. 2 and lysophospholipase produced by Vibrio vulnificus. Infect. Immun. 45:458-463.
21. Wright, A. C., J. L. Powell, M. K. Tanner, L. A. Ensor, A. B. Karpas, J. G. Morris, Jr., and M. B. Sztein. 1999. Differential expression of Vibrio vulnificus capsular polysaccharide. Infect. Immun. 67:2250-2257.
22. Wright, A. C., L. M. Simpson, and J. D. Oliver. 1981. Role of iron in the pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus infections. Infect. Immun. 34:503-507.