A plasmid locus associated with Klebsiella clinical infections encodes a microbiome-dependent gut fitness factor
J. Vornhagen, C. Bassis, S. Ramakrishnan, R. Hein, S. Mason, Y. Bergman, N. Sunshine, Y. Fan, W. Timp, M. C. Schatz, V. B. Young, P. J. Simner, M. A. Bachman
The paper identifies a plasmid-encoded ter operon in Klebsiella pneumoniae that functions as a microbiome-dependent gut fitness factor, enhancing colonization in the presence of specific gut microbiota.
bioRxiv · Feb 26, 2020Microbiology