Salmonella Heidelberg side-step gene loss of respiratory requirements in chicken infection model

• Autor(a) principal: Góes, Vinícius [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Monte, Daniel F.M. [UNESP], Saraiva, Mauro de Mesquita Souza [UNESP], Almeida, Adriana Maria de [UNESP], Cabrera, Julia Memrava [UNESP], Alves, Lucas Bocchini Rodrigues [UNESP], Ferreira, Taísa Santiago [UNESP], Lima, Tulio Spina de [UNESP], Benevides, Valdinete P. [UNESP], Barrow, Paul A., Freitas Neto, Oliveiro Caetano de, Berchieri Jr, Angelo [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2022.105725; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/240750
• topic: 1,2-Propanediol; Anaerobic respiration; Salmonellosis; Tetrathionate

Among the important recent observations involving anaerobic respiration was that an electron acceptor produced as a result of an inflammatory response to Salmonella Typhimurium generates a growth advantage over the competing microbiota in the lumen. In this regard, anaerobically, salmonellae can oxidize thiosulphate (S2O32−) converting it into tetrathionate (S4O62−), the process by which it is encoded by ttr gene cluster (ttrSRttrBCA). Another important pathway under aerobic or anaerobic conditions is the 1,2-propanediol-utilization mediated by the pdu gene cluster that promotes Salmonella expansion during colitis. Therefore, we sought to compare in this study, whether Salmonella Heidelberg strains lacking the ttrA, ttrApduA, and ttrACBSR genes experience a disadvantage during cecal colonization in broiler chicks. In contrast to expectations, we found that the gene loss in S. Heidelberg potentially confers an increase in fitness in the chicken infection model. These data argue that S. Heidelberg may trigger an alternative pathway involving the use of an alternative electron acceptor, conferring a growth advantage for S. Heidelberg in chicks.