Publication Date:
2012-05-15
Description:
The virulence mechanisms that allow pathogens to colonize the intestine remain unclear. Here, we show that germ-free animals are unable to eradicate Citrobacter rodentium, a model for human infections with attaching and effacing bacteria. Early in infection, virulence genes were expressed and required for pathogen growth in conventionally raised mice but not germ-free mice. Virulence gene expression was down-regulated during the late phase of infection, which led to relocation of the pathogen to the intestinal lumen where it was outcompeted by commensals. The ability of commensals to outcompete C. rodentium was determined, at least in part, by the capacity of the pathogen and commensals to grow on structurally similar carbohydrates. Thus, pathogen colonization is controlled by bacterial virulence and through competition with metabolically related commensals.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439148/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3439148/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kamada, Nobuhiko -- Kim, Yun-Gi -- Sham, Ho Pan -- Vallance, Bruce A -- Puente, Jose L -- Martens, Eric C -- Nunez, Gabriel -- DK091191/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DK61707/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK061707/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 DK091191/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 8;336(6086):1325-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1222195. Epub 2012 May 10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582016" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bacterial Load
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Bacterial Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Bacteroides/*growth & development
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Citrobacter rodentium/genetics/growth & development/immunology/*pathogenicity
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Enterobacteriaceae Infections/immunology/*microbiology
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Escherichia coli/*growth & development
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Feces/microbiology
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Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
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Germ-Free Life
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Intestinal Mucosa/*microbiology
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Intestines/*microbiology
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*Metagenome
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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*Microbial Interactions
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Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms
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Virulence Factors/genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
