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Infection and Immunity, September 1998, p. 4517-4521, Vol. 66, No. 9
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

The Helicobacter pylori UreI Protein Is Not Involved in Urease Activity but Is Essential for Bacterial Survival In Vivo

Stéphane Skouloubris, Jean-Michel Thiberge, Agnès Labigne, and Hilde De Reuse*

Unité de Pathogénie Bactérienne des Muqueuses, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France

Received 4 March 1998/Returned for modification 20 April 1998/Accepted 24 June 1998

We produced defined isogenic Helicobacter pylori ureI mutants to investigate the function of UreI, the product of one of the genes of the urease cluster. The insertion of a cat cassette had a strong polar effect on the expression of the downstream urease genes, resulting in very weak urease activity. Urease activity, measured in vitro, was normal in a strain in which ureI was almost completely deleted and replaced with a nonpolar cassette. In contrast to previous reports, we thus found that the product of ureI was not necessary for the synthesis of active urease. Experiments with the mouse-adapted H. pylori SS1 strain carrying the nonpolar ureI deletion showed that UreI is essential for H. pylori survival in vivo and/or colonization of the mouse stomach. The replacement of ureI with the nonpolar cassette strongly reduced H. pylori survival in acidic conditions (1-h incubation in phosphate-buffered saline solution at pH 2.2) in the presence of 10 mM urea. UreI is predicted to be an integral membrane protein and may therefore be involved in a transport process essential for H. pylori survival in vivo.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité de Pathogénie Bactérienne des Muqueuses, Institut Pasteur, 28 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France. Phone: 33 1 40 61 32 73. Fax: 33 1 40 61 36 40. E-mail: hdereuse{at}pasteur.fr.

Infection and Immunity, September 1998, p. 4517-4521, Vol. 66, No. 9
0019-9567/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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