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| Reynaud, Yann; Saulnier, Denis; Mazel, D; Goarant, Cyrille; Le Roux, F. |
| Vibrio nigripulchritudo, the etiological agent of Litopenaeus stylirostris summer syndrome, is responsible for mass mortalities of shrimp in New Caledonia. Epidemiological studies led to the suggestion that this disease is caused by an emergent group of pathogenic strains. Genomic subtractive hybridization was carried out between two isolates exhibiting low and high virulence. Our subtraction library was constituted of 521 specific fragments; 55 of these were detected in all virulent isolates from our collection (n = 32), and 13 were detected only in the isolates demonstrating the highest pathogenicity (n = 19), suggesting that they could be used as genetic markers for high virulence capacity. Interestingly, 10 of these markers are carried by a replicon of... |
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| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4523.pdf |
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| Binesse, J; Delsert, Claude; Saulnier, Denis; Champomier Verges, M; Zagorec, M; Munier Lehmann, H; Mazel, D; Le Roux, F. |
| Genomic data combined with reverse genetic approaches have contributed to the characterization of major virulence factors of Vibrio species; however, these studies have targeted primarily human pathogens. Here, we investigate virulence factors in the oyster pathogen Vibrio splendidus LGP32 and show that toxicity is correlated to the presence of a metalloprotease and its corresponding vsm gene. Comparative genomics showed that an avirulent strain closely related to LGP32 lacked the metalloprotease. The toxicity of LGP32 metalloprotease was confirmed by exposing mollusk and mouse fibroblastic cell lines to extracellular products (ECPs) of the wild type (wt) and a vsm deletion mutant (Delta vsm mutant). The ECPs of the wt induced a strong cytopathic effect... |
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| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2008/publication-4931.pdf |
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