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Infection and Immunity, October 1998, p. 4611-4623, Vol. 66, No. 10
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

DNA Sequencing and Analysis of the Low-Ca2+-Response Plasmid pCD1 of Yersinia pestis KIM5

Robert D. Perry,1,* Susan C. Straley,1 Jacqueline D. Fetherston,1 Debra J. Rose,2 Jason Gregor,2 and Frederick R. Blattner2

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0084,1 and Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 537062

Received 14 April 1998/Returned for modification 19 June 1998/Accepted 10 July 1998

The low-Ca2+-response (LCR) plasmid pCD1 of the plague agent Yersinia pestis KIM5 was sequenced and analyzed for its genetic structure. pCD1 (70,509 bp) has an IncFIIA-like replicon and a SopABC-like partition region. We have assigned 60 apparently intact open reading frames (ORFs) that are not contained within transposable elements. Of these, 47 are proven or possible members of the LCR, a major virulence property of human-pathogenic Yersinia spp., that had been identified previously in one or more of Y. pestis or the enteropathogenic yersiniae Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. Of these 47 LCR-related ORFs, 35 constitute a continuous LCR cluster. The other LCR-related ORFs are interspersed among three intact insertion sequence (IS) elements (IS100 and two new IS elements, IS1616 and IS1617) and numerous defective or partial transposable elements. Regional variations in percent GC content and among ORFs encoding effector proteins of the LCR are additional evidence of a complex history for this plasmid. Our analysis suggested the possible addition of a new Syc- and Yop-encoding operon to the LCR-related pCD1 genes and gave no support for the existence of YopL. YadA likely is not expressed, as was the case for Y. pestis EV76, and the gene for the lipoprotein YlpA found in Y. enterocolitica likely is a pseudogene in Y. pestis. The yopM gene is longer than previously thought (by a sequence encoding two leucine-rich repeats), the ORF upstream of ypkA-yopJ is discussed as a potential Syc gene, and a previously undescribed ORF downstream of yopE was identified as being potentially significant. Eight other ORFs not associated with IS elements were identified and deserve future investigation into their functions.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, MS415 Medical Center, University of Kentucky, 800 Rose St., Lexington, KY 40536-0084. Phone: (606) 323-6341. Fax: (606) 257-8994. E-mail: rperry{at}pop.uky.edu.

Infection and Immunity, October 1998, p. 4611-4623, Vol. 66, No. 10
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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