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Interrogation of global mutagenesis data with a genome scale model of Neisseria meningitidis to assess gene fitness in vitro and in sera.

ABSTRACT: Background Neisseria meningitidis is an important human commensal and pathogen that causes several thousand deaths each year, mostly in young children. How the pathogen replicates and causes disease in the host is largely unknown, particularly the role of metabolism in colonization and disease. Completed genome sequences are available for several strains but our understanding of how these data relate to phenotype remains limited. Results To investigate the metabolism of N. meningitidis we generated and selected a representative Tn5 library on rich medium, a minimal defined medium and in human serum to identify genes essential for growth under these conditions. To relate these data to a systems-wide understanding of the pathogens biology we constructed a genome-scale metabolic network: GSMN-Nm. This model was able to distinguish essential and non-essential genes as predicted by the global mutagenesis. These essentiality data, the library and the GSMN-Nm model are powerful and widely applicable resources for the study of meningococcal metabolism and physiology. We demonstrate the utility of these resources by predicting and demonstrating metabolic requirements on minimal medium such as a requirement for PEP carboxylase, and by describing the nutritional and biochemical status of N. meningitidis when grown in serum, including a requirement for both the synthesis and transport of amino acids. Conclusions This study describes the application of a genome scale transposon library combined with an experimentally validated genome-scale metabolic network of N. meningitidis to identify essential genes and provide novel insight to the pathogens metabolism both in vitro and during infection. Data is also available from BuG@Sbase

ORGANISM(S): Neisseria meningitidis

SUBMITTER: Tom Mendum

PROVIDER: E-BUGS-129 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Interrogation of global mutagenesis data with a genome scale model of Neisseria meningitidis to assess gene fitness in vitro and in sera.

Mendum Tom A TA Newcombe Jane J Mannan Ahmad A AA Kierzek Andrzej M AM McFadden Johnjoe J

Genome biology 20111230 12

<h4>Background</h4>Neisseria meningitidis is an important human commensal and pathogen that causes several thousand deaths each year, mostly in young children. How the pathogen replicates and causes disease in the host is largely unknown, particularly the role of metabolism in colonization and disease. Completed genome sequences are available for several strains but our understanding of how these data relate to phenotype remains limited.<h4>Results</h4>To investigate the metabolism of N. meningi ...[more]

PMID: 22208880

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Project description:The gene NMB0419 of Neisseria meningitidis strain MC58 encodes a putative tetratricopeptide repeats (TPR) containing protein, which was implicated in respiratory epithelial invasion. We have accordingly sought a role for NMB0419 in meningococcal adherence and invasion of human epithelial cells using Escherichia coli surrogates. In trans expression of NMB0419 promoted adherence of the E. coli strain to human epithelial cells, which showed a unique aggregative adherence pattern that was observed for pathogenic E. coli. This adherence was totally abolished by addition of D-mannose, suggesting that formation of type 1 pili on the surface of E. coli strain was solely responsible for the adherence and was facilitated by the expression of NMB0419. This was further supported by rigid pilus structures seen on the surface of NMB0419 expressing E. coli using electron microscopy. A survey of other meningococcal strains including serogroup A, B, C, W, X, Y and Z (n=3, 42, 10, 1, 1, 1, and 1, respectively) revealed that an NMB0419 homologue was present in all strains, however, encoded varying number of TPR domains from 1 to 7. E. coli with in trans expression of such a homologue (NMA2065) encoding single TPR domain also showed enhanced adherence to the level that was observed for the E. coli strain expressing NMB0419 encoding for 4 TPR domains. Nevertheless, in-frame deletion of the TPR-domain coding sequence from the expression plasmid construct reduced the E. coli adherence to the background level. Revisit of the NMB0419 mutant strain of meningococcus indicated that reduction in adherence was primarily responsible for the reduced epithelial invasion that was previously observed. Study of transcriptome profiles in E. coli using microarray showed that the most significantly up-regulated genes in NMB0419 expressing E. coli belonging to the fim operon encoding all necessary structure proteins and chaperons for type 1 pili, strongly suggesting a gene regulatory role for NMB0419. Although the mechanism yet to be explored, this is the first study to showed that TPR domains are involved in bacterial adherence and that a gene encoding single functional TPR domain produced the same phenotype as a homologue encoding multiple TPR domains did.

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Interrogation of global mutagenesis data with a genome scale model of Neisseria meningitidis to assess gene fitness in vitro and in sera.

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Interrogation of global mutagenesis data with a genome scale model of Neisseria meningitidis to assess gene fitness in vitro and in sera.

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