Complementation of Rickettsia rickettsii RelA/SpoT restores a nonlytic plaque phenotype.

Abstract:

:Spotted fever group rickettsiae are known to produce distinct plaque phenotypes. Strains that cause lytic infections in cell culture form clear plaques, while nonlytic strains form opaque plaques in which the cells remain intact. Clear plaques have historically been associated with more-virulent species or strains of spotted fever group rickettsiae. We have selected spontaneous mutant pairs from two independent strains of Rickettsia rickettsii, the virulent R strain and the avirulent Iowa strain. A nonlytic variant of R. rickettsii R, which typically produces clear plaques, was isolated and stably maintained. A lytic variant of the Iowa strain, which characteristically produces opaque plaques, was also selected and maintained. Genomic resequencing of the variants identified only a single gene disrupted in each strain. In both cases, the mutation was in a gene annotated as relA/spoT-like. In the Iowa strain, a single mutation introduced a premature stop codon upstream from region encoding the predicted active site of RelA/SpoT and caused the transition to a lytic plaque phenotype. In R. rickettsii R, the nonlytic plaque phenotype resulted from a single-nucleotide substitution that shifted a tyrosine residue to histidine near the active site of the enzyme. The intact relA/spoT gene thus occurred in variants with the nonlytic plaque phenotype. Complementation of the truncated relA/spoT gene in the Iowa lytic plaque variant restored the nonlytic phenotype. The relA/spoT mutations did not affect the virulence of either strain in a Guinea pig model of infection; R strain lytic and nonlytic variants both induced fever equally, and the mutation in Iowa to a lytic phenotype did not cause them to become virulent.

journal_name

Infect Immun

journal_title

Infection and immunity

authors

Clark TR,Ellison DW,Kleba B,Hackstadt T

doi

10.1128/IAI.00048-11

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-04-01 00:00:00

pages

1631-7

issue

4

eissn

0019-9567

issn

1098-5522

pii

IAI.00048-11

journal_volume

79

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