Vibrio cholerae O1 Biotype El Tor: Virulence Factors
Vibrio cholerae (V.cholerae) is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium that infects the small intestine. Symptoms include severe diarrhea, vomiting, and dehydration, which can be life-threatening if not treated promptly. There are more than 200 serogroups of V.cholerae, but only two – O1 and O139 – are associated with cholera epidemics[1].
V.cholerae is highly motile, with a single polar flagellum that enables it to move quickly in liquid environments. It circulates between the aquatic environment and the human gut. Direct human-to-human transmission of cholera is rare. Instead, the bacteria survive, proliferate, and transmit via contaminated reservoirs, including rivers, ponds, coastal waters, and wells.
Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 biotype El Tor (V.cholerae O1 El Tor) was the dominant strain of the 7th global cholera pandemic. It possesses two circular chromosomes that encode for 3,885 total open reading frames (2,770 on Chr 1 and 1,115 on Chr 2). Most essential cell function and pathogenicity genes – including those for DNA replication and toxin production – are on Chr 1. The ability of V. cholerae to cause illness in hosts requires the production of several virulence factors, including cholera enterotoxin, hemolysin toxin, and HA/protease. [1]
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hodgkin, J. and Partridge, F.A. "Caenorhabditis elegans meets microsporidia: the nematode killers from Paris." 2008. PLoS Biology 6:2634-2637.
- ↑ Bartlett et al.: Oncolytic viruses as therapeutic cancer vaccines. Molecular Cancer 2013 12:103.
Authored for BIOL 238 Microbiology, taught by Joan Slonczewski,at Kenyon College,2024
