Complement Resistance Is Essential for Colonization of the Digestive Tract of Hirudo medicinalis by Aeromonas Strains-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Complement Resistance Is Essential for Colonization of the Digestive Tract of Hirudo medicinalis by Aeromonas Strains

Published:2003-07 Issue:7 Volume:69 Page:4268-4271
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Braschler Thomas R.¹,Merino Susana²,Tomás Juan M.²,Graf Joerg¹³

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Berne, CH-3010 Berne, Switzerland

2. Departamento Microbiología, Facultad Biología, Universidad Barcelona, 08071 Barcelona, Spain

3. Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269

Abstract

ABSTRACT From the crop of the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis , only Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria can be cultured consistently. Serum-sensitive A. veronii mutants were unable to colonize H. medicinalis , indicating the importance of the mammalian complement system for this unusual simplicity. Complementation of one selected mutant restored its ability to colonize. Serum-sensitive mutants are the first mutant class with a colonization defect for this symbiosis.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.69.7.4268-4271.2003

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