Table 1.
Aeromonad Virulence Factors Studied
| Virulence Factor | Reference Sequences |
Virulence-Associated Gene | Genomic Location | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accession No. | Strain | Length (Amino Acids) | ||||
| Aerolysin AerA (syn: Cytolytic enterotoxin Act) |
|
493493 | aer (syn: act) | Chromosome | Howard et al. (1987), Chakraborty et al. (1987), Chopra et al. (1993) | |
| Thermolabile cytotonic enterotoxin | Q44061E | A. dhakensis SSU | 368 | alt | Chromosome | Chopra et al. (1996) |
| Thermostable cytotonic enterotoxin | Q8VRN3E | A. dhakensis SSU | 636 | ast | Chromosome | Sha et al. (2002) |
| Extracellular collagenase | J7FWV3E | A. piscicola AH-3 | 915 | colAh | Chromosome | Duarte et al. (2015) |
| Toxin RtxA (repeat-in-toxin A) | A0KHZ7E | A. hydrophila subsp. hydrophila ATCC 7966T | 4,685 | rtxA | Chromosome | Suarez et al. (2012) |
| Exotoxin A | A0A0W0AX19E | A. salmonicida Y577 | 639 | exoA | Unknown (chromosome in P. aeruginosa PA01) | Tsaur and Clowes (1989), Ponnusamy et al. (2016), Vincent et al. (2016) |
| SST3 needle protein AscF | Q6WG33E | A. veronii 283c | 85 | ascF | Chromosome or plasmid (chromosome in A. hydrophila ANNIH1 and ALO6-06/ plasmid in A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida A449) | Chacon et al. (2004), Reith et al. (2008); Tekedar et al. (2015),Hughes et al. (2016) |
| SST3 component AscG | Q6WG32E | A. veronii 283c | 116 | ascG | ||
| SST3 Inner membrane channel protein AscV | A4SUH2E | A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida A449 | 721 | ascV | ||
| ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin AexT | Q93Q17S | A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida A449 | 475 | aexT | Chromosome | Stuber et al. (2003), Dacanay et al. (2006), Reith et al. (2008), Silver and Graf (2009) |
| ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin AexU | D5LUP3E | A. veronii bv. sobria AeG1 | 512 | aexU | Chromosome | Sha et al. (2007), Silver and Graf (2009), Abolghait et al. (2011) |
| Lateral flagellin A | Q93TL9E | A. caviae Sch3 | 281 | lafA | Chromosome | Kirov et al. (2002), Canals et al. (2006) |
| Serine protease Ahe2 | A4SNU7E | A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida A449 | 625 | ser (syn.: ahe2) | Chromosome | Reith et al. (2008) |
Note.—S/E, accession numbers correspond to protein sequences in SwissProt or TrEMBL databases.