Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

The Salmonella virulence protein MgtC promotes phosphate uptake inside macrophages

  • Soomin Choi,
  • Eunna Choi,
  • Yong-Joon Cho,
  • Daesil Nam,
  • Jangwoo Lee,
  • Eun-Jin Lee

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11318-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The virulence factor MgtC is essential for intracellular macrophage survival of Salmonella enterica. Here, the authors show that MgtC targets the PhoB/PhoR regulatory system leading to phosphate uptake inside macrophages and that both phoR mutation and phoB deletion renders Salmonella hypervirulent in mice.