Conclusions: Riboflavin and light are effective in reducing O. tsutsugamushi.
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Three strains of O. tsutsugamushi were isolated and all were identified as Kawasaki type.
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Orientia tsutsugamushi causes scrub typhus, a potentially fatal infection that afflicts 1 million people annually.
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O. tsutsugamushi also impedes ERAD during this time period.
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It is caused by infection with any of the multitude of strains of the bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi.
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The Golgi is also destabilized in cells infected with O. tsutsugamushi or treated with COPB2 small interfering RNA.
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PCR primers were developed that amplified ompA DNA from all O. tsutsugamushi strains, but not from negative control bacteria.
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This study demonstrates that O. tsutsugamushi strain Ikeda Anks also bear F-box motifs that interact with host cell polyubiquitination machinery.
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Rickettsia tsutsugamushi may form an independent lineage, whereas molecular data allow to regroup serologically defined typhus and spotted fever group rickettsiae.
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Aligning O. tsutsugamushi, poxviral, and eukaryotic F-box sequences delineated three F-box residues that are highly conserved and likely to be functionally important.
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This study identifies O. tsutsugamushi Anks as T1SS substrates and indicates that many display a tropism for the host cell secretory pathway.
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The O. tsutsugamushi genome encodes one of the largest known bacterial Ank repertoires plus T1SS and T4SS components.
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Here, we show that O. tsutsugamushi invokes the UPR in the first 48 h and benefits from ER stress in an amino acid-dependent manner.
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O. tsutsugamushi growth is minimal during the first 24 to 48 h of infection but its growth becomes logarithmic thereafter.
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Sustained inhibition of ERAD using RNA interference results in an O. tsutsugamushi growth defect at 72 h that can be rescued by amino acid supplementation.
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Herein, we determined that the nucleotide and translated amino acid sequences of outer membrane protein A (OmpA) are highly conserved among 51 O. tsutsugamushi isolates.