• The Plant Pathology Journal
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.77-82
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• 2001

Erwinia amylovora causes a devastating disease called fire blight in rosaceous trees and shrubs such as apple, pear, and raspberry. To successfully infect its hosts, the pathogen requires a set of clustered genes termed hrp. Studies on the hrp system of E. amylovora indicated that it consists of three functional classes of genes. Regulation genes including hrpS, hrpS, hrpXY, and hrpL produce proteins that control the expression of other genes in the cluster. Secretion genes, many of which named hrc, encode proteins that may form a transmembrane complex, which is devoted to type III protein secretion. Finally, several genes encode the proteins that are delivered by the protein secretion apparatus. They include harpins, DspE, and other potential effector proteins that may contribute to proliferation of E. amylovora inside the hosts. Harpins are glycine-rich heat-stable elicitors of the hypersensitive response, and induce systemic acquired resistance. The pathogenicity protein DseE is homologous and functionally similar to an avirulence protein of Pseudomonas syringae. The region encompassing the hrpldsp gene cluster of E. amylovora shows features characteristic of a genomic island : a cryptic recombinase/integrase gene and a tRNA gene are present at one end and genes corresponding to those of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome are found beyond the region. This island, designated the Hrp pathogenicity island, is more than 60 kilobases in size and carries as many as 60 genes.

• 한국미생물·생명공학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2012

살모넬라(Salmonella)의 염색체에 존재하는 병원성 유전자의 집합체인 Salmonella pathogenicity island(SPI)1 과 2는 살모넬라가 유발하는 다양한 질병에 중요한 역할을 한다. SPI1의 발현을 유도하는 HilD는 Luria-Bertani(LB) 배지 조건에서 SPI2의 발현 활성인자로 작용하는 것으로 알려져 있으나 LB 배지 내에서 hilD 유전자의 발현 양상은 아직까지 연구되지 않았다. 본 연구에서는 LB 배지에 살모넬라를 배양하면서 hilD 유전자의 발현과 단백질 양을 조사하였으며 SPI2 유전자인 sseA의 발현과 비교하였다. hilD의 발현은 대수 증식기 경과 후 정지기(stationary phase)로 전환되는 시기에 비약적으로 증가하였으나 sseA의 발현은 정지기 후반부에 최대로 증가하였다. 즉, 후반 정지기에서 HilD 단백질은 낮은 수준으로 존재함에도 불구하고 SPI2의 발현을 유도한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. SPI1의 다른 발현 조절인자인 hilA와 invF의 변이체에서 sseA의 발현을 살펴본 결과 invF의 변이는 hilD와는 다르게 배지 조건에 상관없이 오히려 sseA의 발현을 증가시켰다. 또한, InvF의 과발현은 sseA 발현을 정상 수준으로 복원시켰지만 추가적인 감소는 일으키지 않는다는 것을 알 수 있었다. SPI1은 HilD를 이용하여 SPI2의 발현을 유도하지만 반대로 InvF를 이용하여 발현을 억제하기도 하는 이중적인 조절 기전을 가지고 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• 제43권spc1호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2005

An early step in the pathogenesis of non-typhoidal Salmonella species is the ability to penetrate the intestinal epithelial monolayer. This process of cell invasion requires the production and transport of secreted effector proteins by a type III secretion apparatus encoded in Salmonella pathogenicity island I (SPI-1). The control of invasion involves a number of genetic regulators and environmental stimuli in complex relationships. SPI-1 itself encodes several transcriptional regulators (HilA, HilD, HilC, and InvF) with overlapping sets of target genes. These regulators are, in turn, controlled by both positive and regulators outside SPI-1, including the two-component regulators BarA/SirA and PhoP/Q, and the csr post-transcriptional control system. Additionally, several environmental conditions are known to regulate invasion, including pH, osmolarity, oxygen tension, bile, $Mg^{2+}$ concentration, and short chain fatty acids. This review will discuss the current understanding of invasion control, with emphasis on the interaction of environmental factors with genetic regulators that leads to productive infection.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 1999년도 임시총회 및 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.58.2-58
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• 1999

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1664-1672
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• 2013

In Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, many genes encoded within Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI1) are required to induce intestinal/diarrheal disease. In this study, we compared the expression of four SPI1 genes (hilA, invF, prgH, and sipC) under shaking and standing culture conditions and found that the expression of these genes was highest during the transition from the exponential to stationary phase under shaking conditions. To identify regulators associated with the stationary phase-dependent activation of SPI1, the effects of selected regulatory genes, including relA/spoT (ppGpp), luxS, ihfB, hfq, and arcA, on the expression of hilA and invF were compared under shaking conditions. Mutations in the hfq and arcA genes caused a reduction in hilA and invF expression (more than 2-fold) in the early stationary phase only, whereas the lack of ppGpp and IHF decreased hilA and invF gene expression during the entire stationary phase. We also found that hfq and arcA mutations caused a reduction of hilD expression upon entry into the stationary phase under shaking culture conditions. Taken together, these results suggest that Hfq and ArcA regulate the hilD promoter, causing an accumulation of HilD, which can trigger a stationary phase-dependent activation of SPI1 genes under shaking culture conditions.

• 한국식물병리학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.725-728
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• 1998

Phytophthora crown rot of cymbidium was observed in Cheju island since June of 1996. The disease initiated at the basal portion of infected plant progressed upward to lower leaves. Soon after distinct water-soaking lesions appeared on lower leaves, the plant was wilted, blighted and died. Four orchid farms at Sogwipo out of 16 surveyed in the island were infected by the disease estimating 5~20% infection rates. The causal fungus was identified as P. palmivora based on following distinguishing characteristics. All isolates were heterothallic as A1 types and readily produced chlamydospores with cultural age. Sporangia were conspicuous papillate, ellipsoidal to ovoid, highly deciduous with short pedicels ca. 3~4 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. Koch's rules were satisfied by a pathogenicity test and re-isolation of the fungus from inoculated plants. The pathogen has never been reported in Cheju island previously and its firstly recorded as the cause of Phytophthora crown rot of cymbidium in Korea.

• 한국미생물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국미생물학회 2002년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.51-55
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• 2002

• 미생물학회지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.158-160
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• 2018

Streptomyces sp. P3 균주는 대한민국 강원도 평창의 더뎅이병 이병괴경으로부터 2017년 분리되었다. 이 논문에서는 9,851,971 bp (71.2% G + C 함량)로 구성된 P3 균주의 전체염기서열을 보고한다. 지놈은 8,548개의 코딩서열, 18개의 rRNA 그리고 66개의 tRNA 유전자를 포함하고 있다. 특히 P3 균주는 감자표면과 무종자를 이용한 병원성 검정에서 병원성을 나타내지는 않았지만, 감자 더뎅이병 유발 Streptomyces들이 보유한 병원성 유전자 중 tomA 유전자만이 존재하였다. 따라서 본 논문에 제공되는 전체염기서열은 감자 더뎅이병원세균들의 병원성 획득을 위한 진화단계에서의 이해를 높이기 위한 중요한 단서가 될 것이다.

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2002년도 총회 및 추계학술발표회
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• pp.47.1-47
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• 2002

• 한국식물병리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국식물병리학회 2000년도 추계 학술발표회
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• pp.54.2-54
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• 2000