sequence of two plasmids from clostridium perfringens chicken necrotic enteritis isolates and comparison with c. perfringens conjugative plasmids两个质粒序列perfringens鸡坏死性肠炎隔离和梭状芽胞杆菌与c perfringens接合质粒.pdfVIP

Sequence of Two Plasmids from Clostridium perfringens Chicken Necrotic Enteritis Isolates and Comparison with C. perfringens Conjugative Plasmids 1 1 2 3 1 Valeria R. Parreira , Marcio Costa , Felix Eikmeyer , Jochen Blom , John F. Prescott * 1 Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2 Institute for Genome Research and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, 3 Bioinformatics Resource Facility, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, D-33594 Bielefeld, Germany Abstract Twenty-six isolates of Clostridium perfringens of different MLST types from chickens with necrotic enteritis (NE) (15 netB- positive) or from healthy chickens (6 netB-positive, 5 netB-negative) were found to contain 1–4 large plasmids, with most netB-positive isolates containing 3 large and variably sized plasmids which were more numerous and larger than plasmids in netB-negative isolates. NetB and cpb2 were found on different plasmids consistent with previous studies. The pathogenicity locus NELoc1, which includes netB, was largely conserved in these plasmids whereas NeLoc3, present in the cpb2 containing plasmids, was less well conserved. A netB-positive and a cpb2-positive plasmid were likely to be conjugative, and the plasmids were completely sequenced. Both plasmids possessed the intact tcp conjugative region characteristic of C. perfringens conjugative plasmids. Comparative genomic analysis of nine CpCPs, including the two plasmids described here, showed extensive gene rearrangements including pathogenicity locus and accessory gene insertions around rather than within the backbone region. The pattern that emerges from this analysis is that the maj