Development of signature-tagged mutagenesis in Riemerella anatipestifer to identify genes essential for survival and pathogenesis

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第一作者： Tao, Minjie

作者： Tao, Minjie;Wang, Jialing;Li, Ke;Xue, Yafei;Xu, Xinxin;Du, Xiaoli;He, Xiaohua;Tian, Xiangqiang;Zou, Zuocheng;Hu, Zhonghao;Islam, Nazrul;Hu, Qinghai

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关键词： Riemerella anatipestifer; Signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis (STM); Complemented strain; Bacterial loads; Virulence

期刊名称：VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY （ 影响因子：3.293； 五年影响因子：3.599 ）

ISSN： 0378-1135

年卷期： 2020 年 250 卷

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摘要： Riemerella anatipestifer causes epizootic infectious disease in ducks, geese, turkeys and other birds, and serious economic losses especially to the duck industry. However, little is known about the molecular basis of its pathogenesis. In this study, signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis based on Tn4351 was developed in R. anatipestifer to identify genes essential for survival and pathogenesis. Seventeen tagged Tn4351 random mutation libraries of the R. anatipestifer strain WJ4 containing 5100 mutants were screened for survive using a duckling infection model. Twenty mutants that could not be recovered from the infected ducklings, were identified, and 17 mutated genes were identified by inverse PCR or genome-walking PCR. Of these genes, FIP52_03215, FIP52_04350 and FIP52_09345, were inserted into two mutant strains, and FIP52_03215 and FIP52_03175 were found exclusively on the chromosome of serotype 1 R. anatipestifer strains. Twelve out of 17 genes encoding for proteins were predicted to be involved in amino acid, nucleotide, coenzyme, or lipid transport and metabolism, one gene was predicted to be involved in signal transduction, one gene was predicted to be involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair, the other three genes had an unknown function. Animal experiments showed that the virulence of mutants 16-284, 7-295, 24-231, 9-232 and 19-214 were significantly attenuated compared to that of the wild-type WJ4. Moreover, the median lethal dose of mutant 16-284 was greater than 10(10) CFU, and its virulence to ducklings was partially restored when it was complemented with the shuttle expression plasmid pRES-FIP52_09345. The results in this study will be helpful to further study the molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of R. anatipestifer infection.

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