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Characterization of tccP2 carried by atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Division of Bioenvironmental Science, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
FEMS Microbiology Letters (impact factor: 2.04). 06/2007; 271(1):126-35. DOI:10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00707.x pp.126-35
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ABSTRACT Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) comprise an important group of paediatric pathogens. Atypical EPEC have reservoirs in farm and domestic animals where they can be either commensal or pathogenic; serogroup O26 is dominant in humans and animals. Central to intestinal colonization by EPEC is the translocation of the type III secretion system effector Tir into enterocytes, which following phosphorylation (Tir-Yp) recruits Nck to activate the N-WASP actin signalling cascade. The authors have recently shown that typical EPEC strains, belonging to the EPEC-2 lineage, carry a tir gene encoding Tir-Yp and can also use the alternative TccP2 actin-signalling cascade. The aim of this study was to determine if tccP2 is found in atypical EPEC isolated from human and farm animals. tccP2 was found at a frequency of 41% in non-O26 EPEC isolates and in 82.3% of the O26 strains. TccP2 of human and animal strains show high level of sequence identity. It is shown that most strains carry a tir gene encoding Tir-Yp. In addition the authors identified two new variants of tir genes in EPEC O104:H12 and NT:H19 strains.

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Keywords

alternative TccP2 actin-signalling cascade
 
animal strains
 
Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
 
atypical EPEC
 
domestic animals
 
farm animals
 
following phosphorylation
 
intestinal colonization
 
N-WASP actin signalling cascade
 
new variants
 
non-O26 EPEC
 
O26 strains
 
paediatric pathogens
 
serogroup O26
 
strains
 
tccP2
 
tir gene encoding Tir-Yp
 
tir genes
 
type III secretion system effector Tir
 
typical EPEC strains