Commensal and Pathogenic Escherichia coli Metabolism in the Gut.
Commensal and Pathogenic Escherichia coli Metabolism in the Gut.
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DOI:
10.1128/microbiolspec.mbp-0006-2014
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发表时间:
2015-06
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Cohen PS
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作者:
Conway T;Cohen PS
Every mammal on the planet is colonized withE. coli(1), as well as cold‐blooded animals (e.g., fish) at an appropriately warm temperature (2). We estimate there are 1021E. colicells in the human population alone.E. coliis frequently the first bacterium to colonize human infants and is a lifelong colonizer of adults (3).E. coliis arguably the best understood of all model organisms (4). Yet the essence of howE. colicolonizes and/or causes disease is still not completely understood. Certainly, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, and bacterial cell‐to‐cell communication play important roles in modulating the populations of the 500–1000 different commensal species in the intestine (5 – 11); however, these topics will not be a focus of this chapter. We have reviewed the mucus layer as habitat forE. colito colonize the intestine, aspects ofE. coliphysiology that enable its success, and the model systems employed for colonization research (12 – 14). Here, we focus onE. colimetabolism in the intestinal mucus layer. We discuss evidence that E. coli must obtain nutrients in the mucus layer to colonize, that it resides in the mucus layer as a member of mixed biofilms, and that eachE. colistrain displays a unique nutritional program in the intestine. We also discuss evidence supporting the “Restaurant” hypothesis for commensalE. colistrains, i.e., that they colonize the intestine as sessile members of mixed biofilms obtaining the nutrients they need for growth locally, but compete for nutrients with invadingE. colipathogens planktonically.