The Salmonella typhimurium locus mviA regulates virulence in Itys but not Ityr mice: functional mviA results in avirulence; mutant (nonfunctional) mviA results in virulence.
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- 1 November 1991
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 174 (5), 1073-1083
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.174.5.1073
Abstract
The virulent Salmonella typhimurium strain WB600 carries the mviA allele of the gene mouse virulence A. As shown here, the virulent phenotype of WB600 is the result of a nonfunctional mviA gene. As compared to the functional allele mviA+, mviA increases virulence in Itys mice, but not in Ityr mice. A specific BglII site, mviA4185, between osmZ and galU, located at approximately 35 min on the salmonella chromosome, was within mviA. Insertion of an antibiotic cassette in the mviA4185 site of mviA+ or the homologous mviA4093 site of mviA DNA resulted in virulence when either cassette was recombined into the chromosome. When mviA and mviA+ were both expressed in the same strain with one carried in the chromosome and the other on a plasmid, avirulence was dominant. Replacement of the mviA allele of strain WB600 using P22 transductions of linked antibiotic cassettes cloned into the chromosome of virulent S. typhimurium strains (SR-11, TML, SL1344, C5, ATCC14028, W118-2, and WB600) showed that all but WB600 contained the avirulent mviA+ allele. Southern hybridizations provided no evidence for a second mviA allele anywhere in the genome of the six non-WB600 strains.Keywords
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