Sodalis glossinidius

Sodalis glossinidius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacterales
Family:	Pectobacteriaceae
Genus:	Sodalis
Species:	S. glossinidius Dale and Maudlin 1999

Sodalis glossinidius is a species of bacteria, the type and only species of its genus. It is a microaerophilic secondary endosymbiont of the tsetse fly. Strain M1T is the type strain. ^[1] Sodalis glossinidius is the only gammaproteobacterial insect symbiont to be cultured and thus amenable to genetic modification, suggesting that it could be used as part of a control strategy by vectoring antitrypanosome genes. The organism may increase the susceptibility of tsetse flies to trypanosomes. ^[2]

Despite gene erosion and pseudogene multiplication in a genome of Sodalis glossinidius, ^[3] these pseudogenes remain actively transcribed. ^[4]

Parasites

S. glossinidius is itself host to a prophage discovered by Clark et al. 2007. ^[5]

References

1. Dale C, Maudlin I (January 1999). "Sodalis gen. nov. and Sodalis glossinidius sp. nov., a microaerophilic secondary endosymbiont of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 49 Pt 1 (1): 267–75. doi: 10.1099/00207713-49-1-267 . PMID   10028272.
2. Darby AC, Lagnel J, Matthew CZ, Bourtzis K, Maudlin I, Welburn SC (July 2005). "Extrachromosomal DNA of the symbiont Sodalis glossinidius". Journal of Bacteriology . 187 (14): 5003–7. doi:10.1128/JB.187.14.5003-5007.2005. PMC   1169519 . PMID   15995217.
3. Toh H, Weiss BL, Perkin SA, Yamashita A, Oshima K, Hattori M, Aksoy S (February 2006). "Massive genome erosion and functional adaptations provide insights into the symbiotic lifestyle of Sodalis glossinidius in the tsetse host". Genome Research. 16 (2): 149–56. doi:10.1101/gr.4106106. PMC   1361709 . PMID   16365377.
4. Goodhead I, Blow F, Brownridge P, Hughes M, Kenny J, Krishna R, et al. (January 2020). "Large-scale and significant expression from pseudogenes in Sodalis glossinidius - a facultative bacterial endosymbiont". Microbial Genomics. 6 (1). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.000285 . PMC   7067036 . PMID   31922467.
5. Kirsch, Joshua M.; Brzozowski, Robert S.; Faith, Dominick; Round, June L.; Secor, Patrick R.; Duerkop, Breck A. (2021-09-29). "Bacteriophage-Bacteria Interactions in the Gut: From Invertebrates to Mammals". Annual Review of Virology . 8 (1). Annual Reviews: 95–113. doi:10.1146/annurev-virology-091919-101238. ISSN   2327-056X. PMC   8484061 . PMID   34255542.

Further reading

• Dale C, Young SA, Haydon DT, Welburn SC (February 2001). "The insect endosymbiont Sodalis glossinidius utilizes a type III secretion system for cell invasion". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 98 (4): 1883–8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.98.4.1883 . PMC   29351 . PMID   11172045.
• Akman L, Rio RV, Beard CB, Aksoy S (August 2001). "Genome size determination and coding capacity of Sodalis glossinidius, an enteric symbiont of tsetse flies, as revealed by hybridization to Escherichia coli gene arrays". Journal of Bacteriology . 183 (15): 4517–25. doi:10.1128/JB.183.15.4517-4525.2001. PMC   95346 . PMID   11443086.
• Matthew CZ, Darby AC, Young SA, Hume LH, Welburn SC (July 2005). "The rapid isolation and growth dynamics of the tsetse symbiont Sodalis glossinidius". FEMS Microbiology Letters . 248 (1): 69–74. doi: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.05.024 . PMID   15961259.

External links

• LPSN
• "Sodalis glossinidius". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• Type strain of Sodalis glossinidius at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase