Genomics

Dataset Information

0

Production of pyomelanin in the Vibrio campbellii hmgA mutant results in the repression of quorum sensing, bioluminescence and virulence


ABSTRACT: Vibrio campbellii BAA-1116 was used as model organism from the Harveyi clade to understand how melanization affected cellular phenotype, metabolism and virulence. An in-frame deletion of the homogentisate-1,2-dioxygenase (hmgA) gene resulted in the overproduction of a pigment in cell culture supernatants and cellular membranes that was identified as pyomelanin. Unlike previous demonstrations in Vibrio cholerae, Burkholderia cepacia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the pigmented V. campbellii mutant did not show increased UV or hydrogen peroxide resistance and was found to be ~2.7 times less virulent then the wild type strain in Penaeus monodon shrimp virulence assays. Microarray-based transcriptomic analyses revealed that the deletion of the hmgA gene and subsequent pyomelanin production negatively effected the expression of 129 genes involved in protein translation, cell division, membrane transport, electron transfer and amino acid utilization. The response was mediated in part by an impairment of the quorum sensing regulon as transcripts of the quorum sensing high cell density master regulator LuxR and other operonic members of this regulon were significantly repressed in the hmgA mutant. Taken together, the results suggest that the pyomelanization of V. campbellii sufficiently impairs the metabolic activities of this organism and renders it less fit and virulent then its isogenic wild type strain.

ORGANISM(S): Vibrio campbellii Vibrio campbellii CAIM 519 = NBRC 15631 = ATCC 25920

PROVIDER: GSE46223 | GEO | 2013/05/31

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA198166

REPOSITORIES: GEO

Similar Datasets

2013-05-31 | E-GEOD-46223 | biostudies-arrayexpress
2016-10-31 | GSE80484 | GEO
2021-06-28 | GSE147616 | GEO
| PRJNA198166 | ENA
2011-12-01 | E-GEOD-28216 | biostudies-arrayexpress
2019-11-14 | GSE136941 | GEO
2011-12-01 | GSE28216 | GEO
2012-10-09 | GSE35702 | GEO
2012-10-09 | E-GEOD-35702 | biostudies-arrayexpress
2021-07-26 | GSE167483 | GEO