scholarly journals Ancestral acquisitions, gene flow and multiple evolutionary trajectories of the type three secretion system and effectors in Xanthomonas plant pathogens

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 5939-5952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Déborah Merda ◽  
Martial Briand ◽  
Eran Bosis ◽  
Céline Rousseau ◽  
Perrine Portier ◽  
...  
2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 891-898 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gopaljee Jha ◽  
R. Rajeshwari ◽  
Ramesh V. Sonti

The type two secretion system (T2S) is important for virulence of a number of gram-negative bacterial plant pathogens. Most of the T2S-secreted proteins that have been characterized to date are involved in degrading different components of plant cell walls. Functional redundancy appears to exist among T2S-secreted proteins because significant effects on virulence are observed only in strains in which multiple secreted proteins are mutated. Several T2S-secreted proteins have been shown to induce plant defense responses, including hypersensitive response-like reactions. Bacterial pathogens can suppress these defense responses, and recent results indicate that suppression is mediated through the type three secretion system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Larzábal ◽  
Hector A. Baldoni ◽  
Fernando D. Suvire ◽  
Lucrecia M. Curto ◽  
Gabriela E. Gomez ◽  
...  

BMC Genomics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine H. Tanaka ◽  
Antony T. Vincent ◽  
Jean-Guillaume Emond-Rheault ◽  
Marcin Adamczuk ◽  
Michel Frenette ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Einat Nissim-Eliraz ◽  
Eilam Nir ◽  
Irit Shoval ◽  
Noga Marsiano ◽  
Israel Nissan ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a leading cause of severe intestinal disease and infant mortality in developing countries. Virulence is mediated by a type three secretion system (T3SS), causing the hallmark attaching and effacing (AE) lesions and actin-rich pedestal formation beneath the infecting bacteria on the apical surface of enterocytes. EPEC is a human-specific pathogen whose pathogenesis cannot be studied in animal models. We therefore established an EPEC infection model in human gut xenografts in SCID mice and used it to study the role of T3SS in the pathogenesis of the disease. Following EPEC O127:H6 strain E2348/69 infection, T3SS-dependent AE lesions and pedestals were demonstrated in all infected xenografts. We report here the development of T3SS-dependent intestinal thrombotic microangiopathy (iTMA) and ischemic enteritis in ∼50% of infected human gut xenografts. Using species-specific CD31 immunostaining, we showed that iTMA was limited to the larger human-mouse chimeric blood vessels, which are located between the muscularis mucosa and circular muscular layer of the human gut. These blood vessels were massively invaded by bacteria, which adhered to and formed pedestals on endothelial cells and aggregated with mouse neutrophils in the lumen. We conclude that endothelial infection, iTMA, and ischemic enteritis might be central mechanisms underlying severe EPEC-mediated disease.


Microbiology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 159 (Pt_9) ◽  
pp. 1937-1945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Dallaire-Dufresne ◽  
Xavier Barbeau ◽  
Darren Sarty ◽  
Katherine H. Tanaka ◽  
Alix M. Denoncourt ◽  
...  

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