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Brown, N. A., Urban, M. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. 2016. The trans-kingdom identification of negative regulators of pathogen hypervirulence. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 40 (1), pp. 19-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv042
Authors | Brown, N. A., Urban, M. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. |
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Abstract | Modern society and global ecosystems are increasingly under threat from pathogens, which cause a plethora of human, animal, invertebrate and plant diseases. Of increasing concern is the trans-kingdom tendency for increased pathogen virulence that is beginning to emerge in natural, clinical and agricultural settings. The study of pathogenicity has revealed multiple examples of convergently evolved virulence mechanisms. Originally described as rare, but increasingly common, are interactions where a single gene deletion in a pathogenic species causes hypervirulence. This review utilised the pathogen–host interaction database (www.PHI-base.org) to identify 112 hypervirulent mutations from 37 pathogen species, and subsequently interrogates the trans-kingdom, conserved, molecular, biochemical and cellular themes that cause hypervirulence. This study investigates 22 animal and 15 plant pathogens including 17 bacterial and 17 fungal species. Finally, the evolutionary significance and trans-kingdom requirement for negative regulators of hypervirulence and the implication of pathogen hypervirulence and emerging infectious diseases on society are discussed. |
Keywords | pathogen; bacteria; fungi; virulence; emerging infectious diseases; antimicrobial resistance |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Journal | FEMS Microbiology Reviews |
Journal citation | 40 (1), pp. 19-40 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuv042 |
PubMed ID | 26468211 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4703069 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Funder | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
Funder project or code | Wheat |
Pathogen-Host Interactions Database: PHI Database [2012-2017] | |
PhytoPath: an Integrated resource for comparative phytopathogen genomics [2011-2014] | |
PhytoPath, an infrastructure for hundreds of plant pathogen genomes | |
Publisher's version | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 01 Jan 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 03 Sep 2015 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) Oxford |
Oxford University Press (OUP) | |
Copyright license | CC BY |
ISSN | 0168-6445 |
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