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Pathogenicity and Medical Microbiology |
Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U 411, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France1
Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, 104 boulevard Raymond Poincaré, 92380 Garches, France2
Author for correspondence: Jean-Louis Gaillard. Fax: +33 1 47 10 79 49. e-mail: jean-louis.gaillard{at}rpc.ap-hop-paris.fr
Insertional mutagenesis was performed with Tn1545 in the genetic background of an inlAB deletion mutant to identify new adhesion determinants in Listeria monocytogenes. Four insertion mutants defective in adhesion to eukaryotic cells were identified. Insertion sites were cloned by inverse-PCR and sequenced. The genetic organization of insertion regions was further analysed by screening and sequencing DNA fragments from a HindIII library and by searching databases. Three adhesion-defective mutants each had one copy of Tn1545 inserted into their chromosome. The insertion sites were different in the three mutants: (i) upstream from two ORFs in tandem, similar to dfp and priA of Bacillus subtilis, respectively; (ii) within an ORF encoding a putative 126 amino-acid-polypeptide with no significant similarity to any known protein; (iii) within an ORF similar to a B. subtilis ORF with no known function, just upstream from an operon similar to an ABC (ATP-binding cassette) transporter operon from B. subtilis. The excisants obtained from these mutants using the excision reporter plasmid pTCR9 recovered full adhesion capacity. A fourth mutant was the most severely defective in adhesion. It had five Tn1545 insertions, one of which was upstream from dfp and priA, and another of which was upstream from ami, a gene encoding a surface-exposed autolysin with a C terminus similar to that of InlB. Ami was clearly involved because an ami null mutant constructed in an EGD
inlA–F background was adhesion-defective. Thus new regions involved in the adhesion of L. monocytogenes to eukaryotic cells were identified. Further study is required to define more accurately the roles of these regions in the adhesion process itself.
Keywords: Listeria monocytogenes, adhesion loci, insertional mutagenesis, microbial pathogenesis
Abbreviations: ABC, ATP-binding cassette
The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences determined in this work are AF104224–AF104229.
a Philippe Glaser, Alexandra Amend, Fernando Baquero-Mochales, Patrick Berche, Helmut Bloecker, Petra Brandt, Carmen Buchrieser, Trinad Chakraborty, Alain Charbit, Elisabeth Couvé, Antoine de Daruvar, Pierre Dehoux, Eugen Domann, Gustavo Dominguez-Bernal, Lionel Durand, Karl-Dieter Entian, Lionel Frangeul, Hafida Fsihi, Francisco Garcia del Portillo, Patricia Garrido, Werner Goebel, Nuria Gomez-Lopez, Torsten Hain, Joerg Hauf, David Jackson, Jurgen Kreft, Frank Kunst, Jorge Mata-Vicente, Eva Ng, Gabriele Nordsiek, José Claudio Perez-Diaz, Bettina Remmel, Matthias Rose, Christophe Rusniok, Thomas Schlueter, José Antonio Vazquez-Boland, Hartmut Voss, Jurgen Wehland and Pascale Cossart.
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