The role of ClpP, RpoS and CsrA in growth and filament formation of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium at low temperature

BMC Microbiology

John Elmerdahl Olsen⁴  Ivan Rychlik²  Søren Aabo¹  Line Elnif Thomsen⁴  Maj-Britt Nielsen³  Gitte Maegaard Knudsen⁵ 

[1] National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Mørkhøj Bygade 19, Søborg 2860, Denmark;Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, Brno, 621 00, Czech Republic;Present address: MBN: DANSTEM, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3B, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark;Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Stigbøjlen 4, Frederiksberg C 1870, Denmark;Present address: GMK: Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Matematiktorvet bldg 301, Kgs, Lyngby, 2800, Denmark

关键词: CsrA;    RpoS;    ClpP;    Cold adaptation;    Salmonella;   

Others  :  1140586
DOI  :  10.1186/s12866-014-0208-4

 received in 2014-05-27, accepted in 2014-07-21,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Salmonellae are food-borne pathogens of great health and economic importance. To pose a threat to humans, Salmonellae normally have to cope with a series of stressful conditions in the food chain, including low temperature. In the current study, we evaluated the importance of the Clp proteolytic complex and the carbon starvation protein, CsrA, for the ability of Salmonella Typhimurium to grow at low temperature.

Results

A clpP mutant was severely affected in growth and formed pin point colonies at 10°C. Contrary to this, rpoS and clpP/rpoS mutants were only slightly affected. The clpP mutant formed cold resistant suppressor mutants at a frequency of 2.5 × 10⁻³ and these were found not to express RpoS. Together these results indicated that the impaired growth of the clpP mutant was caused by high level of RpoS. Evaluation by microscopy of the clpP mutant revealed that it formed filamentous cells when grown at 10°C, and this phenotype too, disappered when rpoS was mutated in parallel indicating a RpoS-dependency. A csrA (sup) mutant was also growth attenuated a low temperature. An rpoS/csrA (sup) double mutant was also growth attenuated, indicating that the phenotype of the csrA mutant was independent from RpoS.

Conclusions

The cold sensitivity of clpP mutant was associated with increased levels of RpoS and probably caused by toxic levels of RpoS. Although a csrA mutant also accumulated high level of RpoS, growth impairment caused by lack of csrA was not related to RpoS levels in a similar way.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Knudsen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd

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