The first shotgun genome sequence of a microbial pathogen from the Philippines is reported. Yersinia enterocolitica subsp. palearctica strain PhRBD_Ye1 is the first Y. enterocolitica strain sequenced from an animal source, swine, which is a natural source of yersiniosis. The closest phylogenetic match is a human clinical isolate from Germany.

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Tonsils of 829 fattening pigs originating from Belgium (n = 201), Italy (n = 428), and Spain (n = 200) were collected between 2005 and 2007 to study the prevalence of enteropathogenic Yersinia in slaughter pigs. Isolation of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis was done by selective enrichment and by cold enrichment for 7 and 14 days. Pathogenic Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseud...

On record, there are 17 species in the Yersinia genus, of which three are known to be pathogenic to human. While the chromosomal and pYV (or pCD1) plasmid-borne virulence genes as well as pathogenesis of these three species are well studied, their genomic evolution is poorly understood. Our study aims to predict the key evolutionary events that led to the emergence of pathogenic Yersinia specie...

Cell death plays a central role in host-pathogen interactions, as it can eliminate the pathogen's replicative niche and provide pro-inflammatory signals necessary for an effective immune response; conversely, cell death can allow pathogens to eliminate immune cells and evade anti-microbial effector mechanisms. In response to developmental signals or cell-intrinsic stresses, the executioner casp...

Small noncoding RNA (sRNA) molecules are integral components of the regulatory machinery for many bacterial species and are known to posttranscriptionally regulate metabolic and stress-response pathways, quorum sensing, virulence factors, and more. The Yop-Ysc type III secretion system (T3SS) is a critical virulence component for the pathogenic Yersinia species, and the regulation of this syste...

Infection of human cells with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis expressing a functional type III secretion system (T3SS) leads to activation of host NF-κB. We show that the Yersinia T3SS activates distinct NF-κB pathways dependent upon bacterial subcellular localization. We found that wildtype Yersinia able to remain extracellular triggered NF-κB activation independently of the non-canonical NF-κB ki...

Pathogenic Yersinia spp. employ a type III protein secretion system that translocates several Yersinia outer proteins (Yops) into the host cell to modify the host immune response. One strategy of the infected host cell to resist the bacterial attack is degradation and inactivation of injected bacterial virulence proteins through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. The cytotoxin YopE is a known ta...

The virulence plasmids pYV019, pYV8081, and pIB1 from Yersinia pestis, Yersinia enterocolitica, and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, respectively, were characterized by restriction endonuclease analysis. The three plasmids exhibited a region of common DNA previously shown to encode determinants which confer Ca2+ dependence. The plasmids from Y. pestis and Y. pseudotuberculosis were similar througho...