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Infect Immun, May 1998, p. 2099-2106, Vol. 66, No. 5
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Identification of Salmonella typhimurium
Genes Required for Colonization of the Chicken Alimentary Tract and
for Virulence in Newly Hatched Chicks
Arthur K.
Turner,
Margaret
A.
Lovell,
Scott D.
Hulme,
Li
Zhang-Barber,
and
Paul A.
Barrow*
Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Near
Newbury, Berkshire RG20 7NN, United Kingdom
Received 17 November 1997/Returned for modification 23 December
1997/Accepted 28 January 1998
From a collection of 2,800 Tn5-TC1 transposon mutants
of Salmonella typhimurium F98, 18 that showed reduced
intestinal colonization of 3-week-old chicks were identified. The sites
of transposon insertion were determined for most of the
mutants and included insertions in the lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis
genes rfaK, rfaY, rfbK, and
rfbB and the genes dksA, clpB,
hupA, and sipC. In addition, identification was
made of an insertion into a novel gene that encodes a protein showing
similarity to the IIC component of the mannose class of
phosphoenolpyruvate-carbohydrate phosphotransferase systems,
which we putatively called ptsC. Transduction of most of
the transposon mutations to a fresh S. typhimurium F98
genetic background and construction of defined mutations in the
rfbK, dksA, hupA, sipC,
and ptsC genes of S. typhimurium F98 supported the role in colonization of all but the pts locus. The
virulence of the rfbK, dksA, hupA,
sipC, and ptsC defined mutants and
clpB and rfaY transductants in 1-day-old chicks
was tested. All but the ptsC and rfaY mutants
were attenuated for virulence. A number of other phenotypes associated
with some of the mutations are described.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute
for Animal Health, Near Newbury, Berkshire RG20 7NN, United
Kingdom. Phone: 44-1635-578411. Fax: 44-1635-577263. E-mail:
paul.barrow{at}bbsrc.ac.uk.

Present address: Peptide Therapeutics, Cambridge CB4 4WG,
United Kingdom.

Present address: Biochemistry Department, Imperial College of
Science Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
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