Metabolism of ʟ -arabinose converges with virulence regulation to promote enteric pathogen fitness
Curtis Cottam,
Rhys T White,
Lauren C Beck
et al.
Abstract:Virulence and metabolism are often interlinked to control the expression of essential colonisation factors in response to host-associated signals. Here, we identified a novel transporter of the dietary monosaccharide ʟ-arabinose that is widely encoded by the zoonotic pathogen enterohaemorrhagicEscherichia coli(EHEC), required for full competitive fitness in the mouse gut and highly expressed during human infection. Accordingly, we discovered that ʟ-arabinose induces expression of the EHEC type 3 secretion syst… Show more
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