URDANETA PÁEZ , Verónica Carolina

Este trabajo centra su investigación en las respuestas adaptativas de Salmonella enterica frente a situaciones de estrés. S. enterica tiene un ciclo de vida complejo y es capaz de sobrevivir y crecer en numerosos ambientes que incluyen, entre otros, una variedad de hospedadores animales así como múltiples entornos naturales. La versatilidad de...

Adaptation to bile is the ability to endure the lethal effects of bile salts after growth on sublethal concentrations. Surveys of adaptation to bile in Salmonella enterica ser. Tyhimurium reveal that active efflux is essential for adaptation while other bacterial functions involved in bile resistance are not. Among S. enterica mutants lacking...

Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) and the European Regional Fund PCIN-2015-131 (Infect-ERA) and BIO2016-75235-P

Bile salts and bacteria have intricate relationships. The composition of the intestinal pool of bile salts is shaped by bacterial metabolism. In turn, bile salts play a role in intestinal homeostasis by controlling the size and the composition of the intestinal microbiota. As a consequence, alteration of the microbiome–bile salt homeostasis can...

During systemic infection of susceptible hosts, Salmonella enterica colonizes the gall bladder, which contains lethal concentrations of bile salts. Recovery of Salmonella cells from the gall bladder of infected mice yields two types of isolates: (i) bile-resistant mutants; (ii) isolates that survive lethal selection without mutation....

Genes annotated as ygfE and yiiU in the genome of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium encode proteins homologous to Escherichia coli cell division factors ZapA and ZapB, respectively. ZapA− and ZapB− mutants of S. enterica are bile-sensitive. The amount of zapB mRNA increases in the presence of a sublethal concentration of sodium...