PMID- 33762200 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210617 LR - 20240214 IS - 1096-1208 (Electronic) IS - 0882-4010 (Linking) VI - 154 DP - 2021 May TI - Defining chaperone-usher fimbriae repertoire in Serratia marcescens. PG - 104857 LID - S0882-4010(21)00129-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.104857 [doi] AB - Chaperone-usher (CU) fimbriae are surface organelles particularly prevalent among the Enterobacteriaceae. Mainly associated to their adhesive properties, CU fimbriae play key roles in biofilm formation and host cell interactions. Little is known about the fimbriome composition of the opportunistic human pathogen Serratia marcescens. Here, by using a search based on consensus fimbrial usher protein (FUP) sequences, we identified 421 FUPs across 39 S. marcescens genomes. Further analysis of the FUP-containing loci allowed us to classify them into 20 conserved CU operons, 6 of which form the S. marcescens core CU fimbriome. A new systematic nomenclature is proposed according to FUP sequence phylogeny. We also established an in vivo transcriptional assay comparing CU promoter expression between an environmental and a clinical isolate of S. marcescens, which revealed that promoters from 3 core CU operons (referred as fgov, fpo, and fps) are predominantly expressed in the two strains and might represent key core adhesion appendages contributing to S. marcescens pathogenesis. CI - Copyright (c) 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd. FAU - Gonzalez-Montalvo, Martin A AU - Gonzalez-Montalvo MA AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiologia, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 64460, Mexico. FAU - Tavares-Carreon, Faviola AU - Tavares-Carreon F AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, 66455, Mexico. FAU - Gonzalez, Gloria M AU - Gonzalez GM AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiologia, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 64460, Mexico. FAU - Villanueva-Lozano, Hiram AU - Villanueva-Lozano H AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiologia, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 64460, Mexico. FAU - Garcia-Romero, Inmaculada AU - Garcia-Romero I AD - Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. FAU - Zomosa-Signoret, Viviana C AU - Zomosa-Signoret VC AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Bioquimica y Medicina Molecular, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 64460, Mexico. FAU - Valvano, Miguel A AU - Valvano MA AD - Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 7BL, United Kingdom. FAU - Andrade, Angel AU - Andrade A AD - Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Microbiologia, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 64460, Mexico. Electronic address: angel.andradet@uanl.edu.mx. LA - eng GR - MR/P022480/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210321 PL - England TA - Microb Pathog JT - Microbial pathogenesis JID - 8606191 RN - 0 (Molecular Chaperones) SB - IM MH - *Fimbriae, Bacterial/genetics MH - Humans MH - Molecular Chaperones/genetics MH - Operon MH - Phylogeny MH - *Serratia marcescens/genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - Fimbriae OT - Serratia marcescens OT - Usher protein EDAT- 2021/03/26 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/22 06:00 CRDT- 2021/03/25 05:49 PHST- 2021/01/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/03/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/03/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/03/25 05:49 [entrez] AID - S0882-4010(21)00129-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.104857 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Microb Pathog. 2021 May;154:104857. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2021.104857. Epub 2021 Mar 21.