著者
Akito Tsuchiya Aki Nishihara Ayumi Saeki Yuki Teru Takashi Aoki Tomoya Kono Masahiro Sakai Jun-ichi Hikima
出版者
The Japanese Society of Fish Pathology
雑誌
魚病研究 (ISSN:0388788X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.55, no.1, pp.18-21, 2020-03-15 (Released:2020-04-02)
参考文献数
25
被引用文献数
1

Pseudotuberculosis pathogen, Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida (Pdp) shows some differences in virulence between Japanese and US strains. ​In this study, we analyzed plasmid DNAs derived from Japanese and US strains of Pdp, and found two homologous regions in these plasmids, pOT-51443-4/p91-197-1 and pOT-51443-1/p91-197-2. ​All genes in the p91-197-1 from US strain were observed in the pOT-51443-4 from Japanese strain. ​This event might have occurred during transmission of the US plasmid to Japanese strain. ​Inhibitor of vertebrate lysozyme (ivy), a known pathogenicity factor was encoded in the homologous region of pOT-51443-1/p91-197-2. ​Thus, the genomic region containing ivy may have been horizontally transmitted between the two Pdp strains.