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RHS-elements function as type II toxin-antitoxin modules that regulate intra-macrophage replication of Salmonella Typhimurium
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- Stårsta, Magnus (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- Hammarlöf, Disa L. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- Wäneskog, Marcus (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- Schlegel, Susan (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- Xu, Feifei (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- Gynnå, Arvid H. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Molekylär systembiologi
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- Borg, Malin (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för cell- och molekylärbiologi
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- Herschend, Sten (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för cell- och molekylärbiologi
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- Koskiniemi, Sanna, 1980- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Mikrobiologi
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- 2020-02-13
- 2020
- English.
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In: PLOS Genetics. - : PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. - 1553-7390 .- 1553-7404. ; 16:2
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- RHS elements are components of conserved toxin-delivery systems, wide-spread within the bacterial kingdom and some of the most positively selected genes known. However, very little is known about how Rhs toxins affect bacterial biology. Salmonella Typhimurium contains a full-length rhs gene and an adjacent orphan rhs gene, which lacks the conserved delivery part of the Rhs protein. Here we show that, in addition to the conventional delivery, Rhs toxin-antitoxin pairs encode for functional type-II toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci that regulate S. Typhimurium proliferation within macrophages. Mutant S. Typhimurium cells lacking both Rhs toxins proliferate 2-times better within macrophages, mainly because of an increased growth rate. Thus, in addition to providing strong positive selection for the rhs loci under conditions when there is little or no toxin delivery, internal expression of the toxin-antitoxin system regulates growth in the stressful environment found inside macrophages.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)
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