FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Selection of Vibrio crassostreae relies on a plasmid expressing a type 6 secretion system cytotoxic for host immune cells BT AF Piel, Damien Bruto, Maxime James, Adele Labreuche, Yannick Lambert, Christophe Janicot, Adrian Chenivesse, Sabine Petton, Bruno Wegner, K. Mathias Stoudmann, Candice Blokesch, Melanie LE ROUX, Frederique AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:1,2;4:1,2;5:6;6:2;7:2;8:1,3;9:4;10:5;11:5;12:1,2; FF 1:PDG-RBE-PFOM;2:PDG-RBE-PFOM;3:PDG-RBE-PFOM;4:PDG-RBE-PFOM;5:;6:;7:;8:PDG-RBE-PFOM-LPI;9:;10:;11:;12:PDG-RBE-PFOM; C1 Ifremer, Unité Physiologie Fonctionnelle des Organismes Marins, ZI de la Pointe du Diable, C 10070 F‐29280 Plouzané, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CS 90074 F‐29688 Roscoff cedex ,France Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), UMR 6539 CNRS UBO IRD IFREMER – Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Technopôle Brest‐Iroise – Rue Dumont d'Urville F‐29280 Plouzané ,France AWI ‐ Alfred Wegener Institut ‐ Helmholtz‐Zentrum für Polar‐ und Meeresforschung, Coastal Ecology, Waddensea Station Sylt, Hafenstrasse 43 25992 List, Germany Laboratory of Molecular MicrobiologyGlobal Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH‐1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), UMR 6539 CNRS UBO IRD IFREMER – Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Technopôle Brest‐Iroise – Rue Dumont d'Urville F‐29280 Plouzané ,France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE INST A WEGENER, GERMANY ECOLE POLYTECH FED LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND UBO, FRANCE SI ROSCOFF BREST ARGENTON SE PDG-RBE-PFOM PDG-RBE-PFOM-LPI UM LEMAR IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 5.491 TC 17 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00510/62129/66343.pdf LA English DT Article AB Pacific oyster mortality syndrome affects juveniles of Crassostrea gigas oysters and threatens the sustainability of commercial and natural stocks of this species. Vibrio crassostreae has been repeatedly isolated from diseased animals and the majority of the strains have been demonstrated to be virulent for oysters. In this study we showed that oyster farms exhibited a high prevalence of a virulence plasmid carried by V. crassostreae while oysters, at an adult stage, were reservoirs of this virulent population. The pathogenicity of V. crassostreae depends on a novel transcriptional regulator, which activates the bidirectional promoter of a Type 6 Secretion System (T6SS) genes cluster. Both the T6SS and a second chromosomal virulence factor, r5.7, are necessary for virulence but act independently to cause to hemocyte (oyster immune cell) cytotoxicity. A phylogenetically closely related T6SS was identified in V. aestuarianus and V. tapetis, which infect adult oysters and clams, respectively. We propose that hemocyte cytotoxicity, is a lethality trait shared by a broad range of mollusk pathogens and we speculate that T6SS was involved in parallel evolution of pathogen for mollusks. PY 2020 PD OCT SO Environmental Microbiology SN 1462-2912 PU Wiley VL 22 IS 10 UT 000483657800001 BP 4198 EP 4211 DI 10.1111/1462-2920.14776 ID 62129 ER EF