Acta Veterinaria et Zootechnica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (11): 5173-5182.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2024.11.032

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The Effect of GreA Protein on the Biological Characteristics and Pathogenicity of Salmonella Enteritidis

Menglei CAI1,2(), Dongxu ZHAO1, Zhenggang ZHANG1, Donghai LIU1, Tingting JIANG1, Shixuan SU1, Xuemin YAN1, Xiaoyang XUE2, Guolin CUI1,2,*()   

  1. 1. School of Life Science and Food Engineer, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan 056038, China
    2. Huayu Agricultural Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Handan 057151, China
  • Received:2024-01-08 Online:2024-11-23 Published:2024-11-30
  • Contact: Guolin CUI E-mail:caimenglei2022@163.com;czzcgl_19@163.com

Abstract:

The aim is to study the effect of GreA protein on the biological characteristics and pathogenicity of Salmonella Enteritidis. Based on the parent strain ATCC13076, ΔgreA and ΔgreB single gene deletion strains and ΔgreAΔgreB double gene deletion strains were constructed by λ-Red recombinant system. Their growth and swimming motility, resistance to stressful environment, biofilm formation ability, and pathogenicity to cells and mice of the parents and the deletion strains were detected. RNA-seq was used to detect differentially expressed genes (DEGs). GreA protein negatively regulated the H2O2 resistance, the growth in vitro and biofilm formation ability of Salmonella Enteritidis, and positively regulated the motor ability, cell invasion and intracellular proliferation ability of Salmonella Enteritidis and its colonizing ability in mouse organs, but have no significant effect on resistance of Salmonella Enteritidis to high temperature and acid environment. GreA protein affects the expression of 107 genes, including positive regulation of inv operon, fim operon and flg operon, which are mainly related to bacterial motility and cell invasion; and negative regulation of cps operon, cbp operon and leu operon, which are related to amino acid synthesis and metabolism. GreA protein affects the environmental adaptability and pathogenicity of Salmonella Enteritidis by regulating the expression of metabolic pathways related to flagellar synthesis and cell invasion.

Key words: Salmonella Enteritidis, biological characteristics, GreA, RNA-seq

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