Vibrio fischeri outer membrane protein OmpU plays a role in normal symbiotic colonization.

ABSTRACT: The nascent light-emitting organ of newly hatched juveniles of the Hawaiian sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes is specifically colonized by cells of Vibrio fischeri that are obtained from the ambient seawater. The mechanisms that promote this specific, cooperative colonization are likely to require a number of bacterial and host-derived factors and activities, only some of which have been described to date. A characteristic of many host-pathogen associations is the presence of bacterial mechanisms that allow attachment to specific tissues. These mechanisms have been well characterized and often involve bacterial fimbriae or outer membrane proteins (OMPs) that act as adhesins, the expression of which has been linked to virulence regulators such as ToxR in Vibrio cholerae. Analogous or even ho

SUBMITTER: Aeckersberg F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC95490 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature