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Infection and Immunity, April 2005, p. 2556-2558, Vol. 73, No. 4
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.4.2556-2558.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Linkage of the Horizontally Acquired ypm and pil Genes in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

François Collyn,1,{dagger} Hiroshi Fukushima,2,{dagger} Christophe Carnoy,1,3 Michel Simonet,1* and Pascal Vincent1

E0364 INSERM, Université de Lille II, Faculté de Médecine, and Institut Pasteur de Lille,1 Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Lille, France,3 Shimane Prefectural Institute of Public Health and Environmental Science, Shimane, Japan2

Received 30 September 2004/ Returned for modification 17 November 2004/ Accepted 20 December 2004

The superantigen-encoding ypm gene and the pil gene cluster governing type IV pilus biogenesis have been laterally acquired by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. PCR assays on 270 unrelated strains from various environmental and animal sources revealed a significant association of ypm and pil in isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Département de Pathogenèse des Maladies Infectieuses, Institut de Biologie de Lille, 1 rue du Professeur Calmette, F-59021 Lille cedex, France. Phone: 33 3 20 87 11 78. Fax: 33 3 20 87 11 83. E-mail: michel.simonet{at}ibl.fr.

Editor: J. B. Bliska

{dagger} F.C. and H.F. contributed equally to this work.

Infection and Immunity, April 2005, p. 2556-2558, Vol. 73, No. 4
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.4.2556-2558.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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