AUTHOR=Dandekar Thomas , Fieselmann Astrid , Popp Jasmin , Hensel Michael TITLE=Salmonella enterica: a surprisingly well-adapted intracellular lifestyle JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=3 YEAR=2012 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2012.00164 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2012.00164 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=

The infectious intracellular lifestyle of Salmonella enterica relies on the adaptation to nutritional conditions within the Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV) in host cells. We summarize latest results on metabolic requirements for Salmonella during infection. This includes intracellular phenotypes of mutant strains based on metabolic modeling and experimental tests, isotopolog profiling using 13C-compounds in intracellular Salmonella, and complementation of metabolic defects for attenuated mutant strains towards a comprehensive understanding of the metabolic requirements of the intracellular lifestyle of Salmonella. Helpful for this are also genomic comparisons. We outline further recent studies and which analyses of intracellular phenotypes and improved metabolic simulations were done and comment on technical required steps as well as progress involved in the iterative refinement of metabolic flux models, analyses of mutant phenotypes, and isotopolog analyses. Salmonella lifestyle is well-adapted to the SCV and its specific metabolic requirements. Salmonella metabolism adapts rapidly to SCV conditions, the metabolic generalist Salmonella is quite successful in host infection.