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Biofilm formation by and multicellular behavior of Escherichia coli O55:H7, an atypical enteropathogenic strain.


ABSTRACT: Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an important causal agent of diarrheal illness throughout the world. Nevertheless, researchers have only recently begun to explore its capacity to form biofilms. Strain O55:H7 (DMS9) is a clinical isolate belonging to the atypical EPEC (aEPEC) group, which displays a high degree of genetic relatedness to enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Strain DMS9 formed a robust biofilm on an abiotic surface at 26 degrees C, but not at 37 degrees C. It also formed a dense pellicle at the air-liquid interface and developed a red, rough, and dry (RDAR) morphotype on Congo red agar. Unlike a previously described E. coli O157:H7 strain, the aEPEC strain seems to express cellulose. Transposon mutagenesis was used to identify biofilm-deficient mutants. One of the mutants was inactivated in the csgFG genes, required for assembly and secretion of curli fimbriae, while a second mutant had a mutation in crl, a thermosensitive global regulator that modulates sigma(S) activity and downstream expression of curli and cellulose. The two mutants were deficient in their biofilm formation capabilities and did not form a pellicle at the air-liquid interface. Unlike in Salmonella, the csgFG mutant in aEPEC completely lost the RDAR phenotype, while the crl mutant displayed a unique RDAR "pizza"-like morphotype. Genetic complementation of the two mutants resulted in restoration of the wild-type phenotype. This report is the first to describe and analyze a multicellular behavior in aEPEC and support a major role for curli and the crl regulator in biofilm development at low temperatures corresponding to the nonmammalian host environment.

SUBMITTER: Weiss-Muszkat M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2832381 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Biofilm formation by and multicellular behavior of Escherichia coli O55:H7, an atypical enteropathogenic strain.

Weiss-Muszkat Michal M   Shakh Dana D   Zhou Yizhou Y   Pinto Riky R   Belausov Eddy E   Chapman Matthew R MR   Sela Shlomo S  

Applied and environmental microbiology 20100115 5


Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is an important causal agent of diarrheal illness throughout the world. Nevertheless, researchers have only recently begun to explore its capacity to form biofilms. Strain O55:H7 (DMS9) is a clinical isolate belonging to the atypical EPEC (aEPEC) group, which displays a high degree of genetic relatedness to enterohemorrhagic E. coli. Strain DMS9 formed a robust biofilm on an abiotic surface at 26 degrees C, but not at 37 degrees C. It also formed a dense  ...[more]

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