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PMID:19589833
| Citation |
Paterson, GK, Cone, DB, Peters, SE and Maskell, DJ (2009) The enzyme phosphoglucomutase (Pgm) is required by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium for O-antigen production, resistance to antimicrobial peptides and in vivo fitness. Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 155:3403-10 |
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| Abstract |
The enzyme phosphoglucomutase (Pgm) catalyses the interconversion of glucose 1-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate and contributes to glycolysis and the generation of sugar nucleotides for biosynthesis. To assess the role of this enzyme in the biology of the pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium we have characterized a pgm deletion mutant in strain SL1344. Compared to SL1344, SL1344 pgm had impaired growth in vitro, was deficient in the ability to utilize galactose as a carbon source and displayed reduced O-antigen polymer length. The mutant was also more susceptible to antimicrobial peptides and showed decreased fitness in the mouse typhoid model. The in vivo phenotype of SL1344 pgm indicated a role for pgm in the early stages of infection, most likely through deficient O-antigen production. Although pgm mutants in other pathogens have potential as live attenuated vaccine strains, SL1344 pgm was not sufficiently attenuated for such use. |
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PubMed Online version:10.1099/mic.0.029553-0 |
| Keywords |
Animals; Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides/pharmacology; Carbon/metabolism; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Female; Galactose/metabolism; Gene Deletion; Liver/microbiology; Mice; Mice, Inbred BALB C; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Microbial Viability; O Antigens/biosynthesis; Phosphoglucomutase/genetics; Phosphoglucomutase/metabolism; Salmonella Infections, Animal/microbiology; Salmonella typhimurium/enzymology; Salmonella typhimurium/genetics; Salmonella typhimurium/growth & development; Spleen/microbiology; Virulence |
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Significance
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| Gene product | Qualifier | GO Term | Evidence Code | with/from | Aspect | Extension | Notes | Status |
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| GO:0004614: phosphoglucomutase activity |
ECO:0000315: |
F |
see figure 1 and figure 3 |
complete | ||||
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