scholarly journals Genome-wide identification of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exported proteins using a consensus computational strategy combined with a laboratory-based PhoA fusion screen

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Lewenza
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. e1009681
Author(s):  
Wontae Hwang ◽  
Ji Hyun Yong ◽  
Kyung Bae Min ◽  
Kang-Mu Lee ◽  
Ben Pascoe ◽  
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is an opportunistic pathogen that causes diverse human infections including chronic airway infection in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Comparing the genomes of CF and non-CF PA isolates has great potential to identify the genetic basis of pathogenicity. To gain a deeper understanding of PA adaptation in CF airways, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 1,001 PA genomes. Genetic variations identified among CF isolates were categorized into (i) alterations in protein-coding regions, either large- or small-scale, and (ii) polymorphic variation in intergenic regions. We introduced each CF-associated genetic alteration into the genome of PAO1, a prototype PA strain, and validated the outcomes experimentally. Loci readily mutated among CF isolates included genes encoding a probable sulfatase, a probable TonB-dependent receptor (PA2332~PA2336), L-cystine transporter (YecS, PA0313), and a probable transcriptional regulator (PA5438). A promoter region of a heme/hemoglobin uptake outer membrane receptor (PhuR, PA4710) was also different between the CF and non-CF isolate groups. Our analysis highlights ways in which the PA genome evolves to survive and persist within the context of chronic CF infection.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihua Huang ◽  
Joelle El Hamouche ◽  
Guiqing Wang ◽  
Melissa Smith ◽  
Changhong Yin ◽  
...  

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients and the leading cause of nosocomial infections. We investigated, here, two MDR P. aeruginosa clinical isolates from a hospitalized patient with differential antimicrobial resistance to ceftazidime/avibactam (CZA), ceftolozane/tazobactam (C/T), and piperacillin/tazobactam (P/T). Their assembled complete genomes revealed they belonged to ST235, a widespread MDR clone; and were isogenic with only a single nucleotide variant, causing G183D mutation in AmpC β-lactamase, responsible for a phenotypic change from susceptible to resistant to CZA and C/T. Further epigenomic profiling uncovered two conserved DNA methylation motifs targeted by two distinct putative methyltransferase-containing restriction-modification systems, respectively; more intriguingly, there was a significant difference between the paired isolates in the pattern of genomic DNA methylation and modifications. Moreover, genome-wide gene expression profiling demonstrated the inheritable genomic methylation and modification induced 14 genes being differentially regulated, of which only toxR (downregulated), a regulatory transcription factor, had its promoter region differentially methylate and modified. Since highly expressed opdQ encodes an OprD porin family protein, therefore, we proposed an epigenetic regulation of opdQ expression pertinent to the phenotypic change of P. aeruginosa from resistant to susceptible to P/T. The disclosed epigenetic mechanism controlling phenotypic antimicrobial resistance deserves further experimental investigation.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. e1006029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giordano Rampioni ◽  
Marilena Falcone ◽  
Stephan Heeb ◽  
Emanuela Frangipani ◽  
Matthew P. Fletcher ◽  
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Pseudomonas ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Jacobs ◽  
Colin Manoil

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxime Rémi Gimenez ◽  
Govind Chandra ◽  
Perrine Van Overvelt ◽  
Romé Voulhoux ◽  
Sophie Bleves ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Rafat Zrieq ◽  
Thibault G. Sana ◽  
Sandra Vergin ◽  
Steve Garvis ◽  
Irina Volfson ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e1002813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda L. Feinbaum ◽  
Jonathan M. Urbach ◽  
Nicole T. Liberati ◽  
Slavica Djonovic ◽  
Allison Adonizio ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
SEIYA IMOTO ◽  
YOSHINORI TAMADA ◽  
HIROMITSU ARAKI ◽  
KAORI YASUDA ◽  
CRISTIN G. PRINT ◽  
...  

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