title: Pathotyping of Salmonella enterica by analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in cyaA and flanking 23S ribosomal sequences.
abstract: The egg-contaminating phenotype of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis was linked to single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) occurring in cyaA, which encodes adenylate cyclase that produces cAMP and pyrophosphate from ATP. Ribotyping indicated that SNPs in cyaA were linked to polymorphisms occurring in the rrlC and rrlA 23S ribosomal subunits. Phylogenetic analysis of cyaA discriminated between Salmonella enterica serotypes and within serotype Enteritidis. Serotypes Typhimurium, Heidelberg and Enteritidis produced one, three and six cyaA allelic variants, respectively, among the set of 56 isolates examined. Asparagine(702) of CyaA was converted to serine in a biofilm-producing isolate. Statistical analysis was applied to 42 other genes encoding proteins between 800 and 1000 amino acids (aa). Results show that the 848 aa CyaA of serovar Enteritidis evolved by nucleotide substitutions that did not significantly alter the purine-to-pyrimidine nucleotide substitution ratio, which was a characteristic of large genes that was positively correlated with increasing gene size. In summary, these analyses link SNPs occurring in the rrlC-rrlA genomic fragment of S. enterica to genetic drift within S. Enteritidis that is associated with egg contamination.
authors.affiliation: Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA 30605, USA.
authors.forename: Cesar A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Musgrove
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Humphrey
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cates
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gast
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guard-Bouldin
mesh_terms: D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D018441:Biofilms; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology; D004531:Eggs / Q000382:microbiology*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D040961:Genetic Drift; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010641:Phenotype; D017354:Point Mutation; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D021521:Ribotyping; D012478:Salmonella Food Poisoning / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D019779:Salmonella enterica / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D012703:Serotyping / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D000262:Adenylyl Cyclases