References and Notes Supporting Online Material Staphylococcus Aureus Panton-valentine Leukocidin Causes Necrotizing Pneumonia
References and Notes Supporting Online Material Staphylococcus Aureus Panton-valentine Leukocidin Causes Necrotizing Pneumonia
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D. W. B. C. Whitman;W. J. Coleman;Wiebe;S. J. Giovannoni;T. B. Britschgi;C. L. Moyer;K. G. Field;Schmidt;E. F. Delong;N. R. Pace;H A Barton;N. M. Taylor;B. Lubbers;A. C. Pemberton;I M Kauffmann;J. Schmitt;R. D. Schmid;Appl;J A Klappenbach;P. R. Saxman;J. R. Cole;T. M. Schmidt;G. F. Feng;R. F. Cho;Doolittle;Acad;Sci;H Ochman;S. Elwyn;N. A. Moran;Maria Labandeira-Rey;Florence Couzon;S. Boisset;Eric L. Brown;M. Bes;Y. Benito;E. Barbu;V. Vazquez;M. Höök;J. Etienne;F. Vandenesch;M Gabriela Bowden
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D. W. B. C. Whitman;W. J. Coleman;Wiebe;S. J. Giovannoni;T. B. Britschgi;C. L. Moyer;K. G. Field;Schmidt;E. F. Delong;N. R. Pace;H A Barton;N. M. Taylor;B. Lubbers;A. C. Pemberton;I M Kauffmann;J. Schmitt;R. D. Schmid;Appl;J A Klappenbach;P. R. Saxman;J. R. Cole;T. M. Schmidt;G. F. Feng;R. F. Cho;Doolittle;Acad;Sci;H Ochman;S. Elwyn;N. A. Moran;Maria Labandeira-Rey;Florence Couzon;S. Boisset;Eric L. Brown;M. Bes;Y. Benito;E. Barbu;V. Vazquez;M. Höök;J. Etienne;F. Vandenesch;M Gabriela Bowden
and show that for any two microbial isolates, the similarity of their annotated habitat (as measured by automated keyword comparisons) is strongly correlated to their evolutionary relatedness (Fig. 2, B and C). We observe such common habitat preferences surprisingly far back in time: Even strains related only at the level of taxonomic order are still significantly more frequently found in the same environment than a random pair of isolates (Fig. 2C). Thus, most microbial lineages remain associated with a certain environment for extended time periods, and successful competition in a new environment seems to be a rare event. The latter might require more than just the acquisition of a few essential functions; probably only a limited number of functionalities are self-sufficient enough, and provide sufficient advantage, to be pervasively transferred (32). For most other adaptations, fine-tuned regulation and/or subtle changes in the majority of proteins may be needed. Because this is difficult to achieve, well-adapted specialists might in fact rarely be challenged in their environment. This does not rule out the presence of a " long tail " of rare, atypical organisms in each environment (33), but most microbial clades do seem to have a preferred habitat. Taken together, our alternative approach of taxonomic profiling of complex communities has sufficient resolution to uncover differences in evolutionary rates of entire communities, as well as long-lasting habitat preferences for bacterial clades. The latter raises the question of how many distinct environmental habitats there are on Earth—a factor that might ultimately determine the true extent of microbial biodiversity. 35. We thank P. Dawyndt for providing an early version of his integrated strain database (www.straininfo.net), and members of the Bork team for insightful discussions. The Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a pore-forming toxin secreted by strains epidemiologically associated with the current outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) and with the often-lethal necrotizing pneumonia. To investigate the role of PVL in pulmonary disease, we tested the pathogenicity of clinical isolates, isogenic PVL-negative and PVL-positive S. aureus strains, as well as purified PVL, in a mouse acute pneumonia model. Here we show that PVL is sufficient to cause pneumonia and that the expression of this leukotoxin induces global changes in transcriptional levels of genes encoding secreted and cell wall–anchored staphylococcal proteins, including the lung inflammatory factor staphylococcal protein A (Spa). T he combined actions of many virulence factors enable Staphylococcus aureus to cause disease …