Survival in amoeba—a major selection pressure on the presence of bacterial copper and zinc resistance determinants? Identification of a “copper pathogenicity island”

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 99, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5817-5824

  Hao, Xiuli ^a   Lüthje, Freja L ^b   Qin, Yanan ^b   McDevitt, Sylvia Franke ^c   Lutay, Nataliya ^d   Hobman, Jon L ^e   Asiani, Karishma ^e   Soncini, Fernando C ^f   German, Nadezhda ^g   Zhang, Siyu ^b,h   Zhu, Yong Guan ^a,h   Rensing, Christopher ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Rosario   (Argentina)

^g TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^h RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Copper; Grazing resistance; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METALS; PROTOZOA; ZINC;

AMOEBA; ANTHROPOGENIC METAL CONTAMINATIONS; METAL RESISTANCES; OR IN AGRICULTURE; PATHOGENICITY; RESISTANCE GENES; SALMONELLA STRAINS; SELECTION PRESSURES;

COPPER;

CADMIUM; COPPER; IRON; SILVER; YERSINIABACTIN; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; CELL ORGANELLE; COPPER; CORRELATION; GENE; HEALTH CARE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PATHOGENICITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; PREDATION; PROTIST; PROTOZOAN; SURVIVAL; ZINC;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HYPOTHESIS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; REVIEW; SALMONELLA; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHAGOSOME; PIG; VIRULENCE;

DENMARK;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTOZOA; SALMONELLA; SUIDAE;

AMOEBA; ANIMALS; COPPER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHAGOSOMES; SALMONELLA; SWINE; VIRULENCE; ZINC;

EID: 84932196151     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6749-0     Document Type: Review

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