RRC ID 1831
著者 Ihssen J, Grasselli E, Bassin C, François P, Piffaretti JC, Köster W, Schrenzel J, Egli T.
タイトル Comparative genomic hybridization and physiological characterization of environmental isolates indicate that significant (eco-)physiological properties are highly conserved in the species Escherichia coli.
ジャーナル Microbiology (Reading)
Abstract Escherichia coli, the common inhabitant of the mammalian intestine, exhibits considerable intraspecies genomic variation, which has been suggested to reflect adaptation to different ecological niches. Also, regulatory trade-offs, e.g. between catabolic versatility and stress protection, are thought to result in significant physiological differences between strains. For these reasons, the relevance of experimental observations made for 'domesticated' E. coli strains with regard to the behaviour of this species in its natural environments is often questioned and doubts are frequently raised on the status of E. coli as a defined species. The variability of important (eco-)physiological functions, such as carbon substrate uptake and breakdown capabilities, as well as stress defence mechanisms, in the genomes of commensal and pathogenic E. coli strains were therefore investigated. Furthermore, (eco-)physiological properties of environmental strains were compared to standard laboratory strain K-12 MG1655. Catabolic, stress protection, and carbon- and energy source transport operons showed a very low intraspecies variability in 57 commensal and pathogenic E. coli. Environmental isolates adapted to glucose-limited growth in a similar way as E. coli MG1655, namely by increasing their catabolic flexibility and by inducing high-affinity substrate uptake systems. The results obtained indicate that significant (eco-)physiological properties are highly conserved in the natural population of E. coli. This questions the proposed dominant role of horizontal gene transfer for niche adaptation.
巻・号 153(Pt 7)
ページ 2052-2066
公開日 2007-7-1
DOI 10.1099/mic.0.2006/002006-0
PMID 17600050
MeSH Environmental Microbiology Escherichia coli / genetics Escherichia coli / physiology* Escherichia coli Proteins* Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial Genome, Bacterial Glucose / metabolism* Molecular Sequence Data
IF 2.138
引用数 21
WOS 分野 MICROBIOLOGY
リソース情報
情報 E.coli