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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2004, p. 3202-3213, Vol. 186, No. 10
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.3202-3213.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Precise Excision of the Large Pathogenicity Island, SPI7, in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi

Susan M. Bueno,1 Carlos A. Santiviago,2 Alejandro A. Murillo,2 Juan A. Fuentes,2 A. Nicole Trombert,2 Paula I. Rodas,2 Philip Youderian,3 and Guido C. Mora2*

Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Chile,1 Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile,2 Department of Biology, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas 778433

Received 26 November 2003/ Accepted 3 February 2004

The large pathogenicity island (SPI7) of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a 133,477-bp segment of DNA flanked by two 52-bp direct repeats overlapping the pheU (phenylalanyl-tRNA) gene, contains 151 potential open reading frames, and includes the viaB operon involved in the synthesis of Vi antigen. Some clinical isolates of S. enterica serovar Typhi are missing the entire SPI7, due to its precise excision; these strains have lost the ability to produce Vi antigen, are resistant to phage Vi-II, and invade a human epithelial cell line more rapidly. Excision of SPI7 occurs spontaneously in a clinical isolate of S. enterica serovar Typhi when it is grown in the laboratory, leaves an intact copy of the pheU gene at its novel join point, and results in the same three phenotypic consequences. SPI7 is an unstable genetic element, probably an intermediate in the pathway of lateral transfer of such pathogenicity islands among enteric gram-negative bacteria.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratorio de Microbiología, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile. Phone: (56) 2-686-2847. Fax: (56) 2-222-5515. E-mail: gmora{at}genes.bio.puc.cl.

Journal of Bacteriology, May 2004, p. 3202-3213, Vol. 186, No. 10
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.3202-3213.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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