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Genetic basis of virulence in Shigella species.

Department of Enteric Infections, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C. 20307-5100.

SUMMARY

Shigella species and enteroinvasive strains of Escherichia coli cause disease by invasion of the colonic epithelium, and this invasive phenotype is mediated by genes carried on 180- to 240-kb plasmids. In addition, at least eight loci on the Shigella chromosome are necessary for full expression of virulence. The products of these genes can be classified as (i) virulence determinants that directly affect the ability of shigellae to survive in the intestinal tissues, e.g., the aerobactin siderophore (iucABCD and iutA), superoxide dismutase (sodB), and somatic antigen expression (rfa and rfb); (ii) cytotoxins that contribute to the severity of disease, e.g., the Shiga toxin (stx) and a putative analog of this toxin (flu); and (iii) regulatory loci that affect the expression of plasmid genes, e.g., ompR-envZ, which mediates response to changes in osmolarity, virR (osmZ), which mediates response to changes in temperature, and kcpA, which affects the translation of the plasmid virG (icsA) gene which is associated with intracellular bacterial mobility and intracellular bacterial spread. A single plasmid regulatory gene (virF) controls a virulence-associated plasmid regulon including virG (icsA) and two invasion-related loci, i.e., (i) ipaABCD, encoding invasion plasmid antigens that may be structural components of the Shigella invasion determinant; and (ii) invAKJH (mxi), which is necessary for insertion of invasion plasmid antigens into the outer membrane.

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