2013
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077388
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Natural Blood Feeding and Temperature Shift Modulate the Global Transcriptional Profile of Rickettsia rickettsii Infecting Its Tick Vector

Abstract: Rickettsia rickettsii is an obligate intracellular tick-borne bacterium that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), the most lethal spotted fever rickettsiosis. When an infected starving tick begins blood feeding from a vertebrate host, R. rickettsii is exposed to a temperature elevation and to components in the blood meal. These two environmental stimuli have been previously associated with the reactivation of rickettsial virulence in ticks, but the factors responsible for this phenotype conversion have … Show more

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“…It is during this blood feeding period [81], and/or when ticks are incubated at warm temperatures (37 • C) for 24-48 h [80], that the bacteria become reactivated from dormancy within tick salivary glands. A study evaluating transcriptional changes in R. rickettsii contained in A. aureolatum showed five times more genes (e.g., type IV secretion system and antioxidant enzymes were upregulated) exhibited changes due to blood feeding versus environmental temperature increases alone, further supporting an increase in the bacterial load due to blood feeding [83]. This pathogen can be transovarially transmitted [84].…”
Section: Rickettsia Rickettsii (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is during this blood feeding period [81], and/or when ticks are incubated at warm temperatures (37 • C) for 24-48 h [80], that the bacteria become reactivated from dormancy within tick salivary glands. A study evaluating transcriptional changes in R. rickettsii contained in A. aureolatum showed five times more genes (e.g., type IV secretion system and antioxidant enzymes were upregulated) exhibited changes due to blood feeding versus environmental temperature increases alone, further supporting an increase in the bacterial load due to blood feeding [83]. This pathogen can be transovarially transmitted [84].…”
Section: Rickettsia Rickettsii (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Diferentemente do observado para A. cajennense, a infecção de carrapatos A. aureolatum por R. rickettsii reprimiu a expressão de uma HBP (Malossi, 2013). A sequência Ac_14, também induzida pela infecção (Tabela 5), codifica uma proteína putativa secretada com 8,9 kDa.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…Os autores discutem que esse fenômeno pode estar relacionado com a produção de espécies reativas de oxigênio (ERO), originada após alimentação sanguínea (Rudenko et al, 2005). A COX também foi induzida em resposta à infecção de A. marginale em R. microplus [(de la Fuente et al, 2007a;Mercado-Curiel et al, 2011;Zivkovic et al, 2010) (Malossi, 2013). No entanto, em virtude dos baixos níveis em que esse gene é transcrito não infectados, utilizamos o método de quantificação absoluta para as duas espécies de carrapatos.…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
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