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Infection and Immunity, December 2005, p. 7894-7905, Vol. 73, No. 12
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.12.7894-7905.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of Core and Variable Components of the Salmonella enterica Subspecies I Genome by Microarray{dagger}

Muna F. Anjum,1* Chris Marooney,1 Maria Fookes,2 Stephen Baker,3 Gordon Dougan,3 Al Ivens,2 and Martin J. Woodward1

Department of Food and Environmental Safety, Veterinary Laboratories Agency-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB,1 The Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA,2 Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Department of Biological Sciences, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom3

Received 3 February 2005/ Returned for modification 4 June 2005/ Accepted 21 July 2005

We have performed microarray hybridization studies on 40 clinical isolates from 12 common serovars within Salmonella enterica subspecies I to identify the conserved chromosomal gene pool. We were able to separate the core invariant portion of the genome by a novel mathematical approach using a decision tree based on genes ranked by increasing variance. All genes within the core component were confirmed using available sequence and microarray information for S. enterica subspecies I strains. The majority of genes within the core component had conserved homologues in Escherichia coli K-12 strain MG1655. However, many genes present in the conserved set which were absent or highly divergent in K-12 had close homologues in pathogenic bacteria such as Shigella flexneri and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Genes within previously established virulence determinants such as SPI1 to SPI5 were conserved. In addition several genes within SPI6, all of SPI9, and three fimbrial operons (fim, bcf, and stb) were conserved within all S. enterica strains included in this study. Although many phage and insertion sequence elements were missing from the core component, approximately half the pseudogenes present in S. enterica serovar Typhi were conserved. Furthermore, approximately half the genes conserved in the core set encoded hypothetical proteins. Separation of the core and variant gene sets within S.enterica subspecies I has offered fundamental biological insight into the genetic basis of phenotypic similarity and diversity across S. enterica subspecies I and shown how the core genome of these pathogens differs from the closely related E. coli K-12 laboratory strain.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Food and Environmental Safety, Veterinary Laboratories Agency-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, United Kingdom. Phone: 44 (0)1932 359476. Fax: 44 (0)1932 357268. E-mail: m.anjum{at}vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk.

Editor: F. C. Fang

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://iai.asm.org/.

Infection and Immunity, December 2005, p. 7894-7905, Vol. 73, No. 12
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.12.7894-7905.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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