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contributes to invasion by controlling expression of and Free

Abstract

The ability of to invade non-phagocytic cells is important for development of a systemic listeriosis infection. The authors previously reported that a Δ strain is defective in invasion into human intestinal epithelial cells, in part, due to decreased expression of a major invasion gene, . To characterize additional invasion mechanisms under the control of , mutants were generated carrying combinations of in-frame deletions in , and . Quantitative assessment of bacterial invasion into the human enterocyte Caco-2 and hepatocyte HepG-2 cell lines demonstrated that contributes to both InlA and InlB-mediated invasion of . Previous identification of the -dependent P2 promoter upstream of the major virulence gene regulator, positive regulatory factor A (PrfA), suggested that the contributions of to expression of various virulence genes, including , could be at least partially mediated through PrfA. To test this hypothesis, relative invasion capabilities of Δ and Δ strains were compared. Exponential-phase cells of the Δ and Δ strains were similarly defective at invasion; however, stationary-phase Δ cells were significantly less invasive than stationary-phase Δ cells, suggesting that the contributions of to invasion extend beyond those mediated through PrfA in stationary-phase . TaqMan quantitative reverse-transcriptase PCRs further demonstrated that expression of and was greatly increased in a -dependent manner in stationary-phase . Together, results from this study provide strong biological evidence of a critical role for in invasion into non-phagocytic cells, primarily mediated through control of and expression.

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Keyword(s): qRT-PCR, quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction
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σB contributes to Listeria monocytogenes invasion by controlling expression of inlA and inlB
Microbiology 151, 3215 (2005); https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28070-0
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