A connection between Vibrio cholerae motility and inter-animal transmission
Campbell, I. W.; Dehinwal, R.; Morano, A. A.; Dailey, K. G.; Zingl, F. G.; Waldor, M. K.
10.1101/2025.02.12.637895 bioRxivShow abstract
Outbreaks of cholera are caused by the highly transmissive pathogen Vibrio cholerae. Here, a transposon screen revealed that inactivation of the V. cholerae motility-linked gene motV increases infant mouse intestinal colonization. Compared to wild-type V. cholerae, a {Delta}motV mutant, which exhibits heightened motility in the form of constitutive straight swimming, localizes to the crypts earlier in infection and over a larger area of the small intestine. Aberrant localization of the mutant was associated with an increased number of V. cholerae initiating infection, and elevated pathogen burden, diarrhea, and lethality. Moreover, the deletion of motV causes V. cholerae to transmit from infected suckling mice to naive littermates more efficiently. Even in the absence of cholera toxin, the {Delta}motV mutant continues to transmit between animals, although less than in the presence of toxin, indicating that phenotypes other than cholera toxin-driven diarrhea contribute to transmission. Collectively, this work provides experimental evidence linking intra-animal bottlenecks, colonization, and disease to inter-animal transmission.
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