Cellular release of heat-labile enterotoxin of Escherichia coli by bacteriophage induction.
AUTOR(ES)
Gemski, P
RESUMO
Treatment of some enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains with the antibiotic mitomycin C resulted in lysis of the bacteria. Heat-labile enterotoxin (LT) activity of culture filtrates, determined by means of the Y-1 adrenal cell assay, increased dramatically as lysis of the culture proceeded. Further studies with E. coli strains 263 and B21-4 revealed that lysis is due to mitomycin C induction of vetetative development of a temperature bacteriophage. These findings suggest that the elevated levels of LT detected after mitomycin C treatment reflect the lytic release of cell-bound LT rather than the induction by mitomycin C of de novo toxin biosynthesis. Comparable increases in LT activity also resulted from thermal induction of a phage P1Cm lysogen of strain 263 or from sonic disruption of enterotoxigenic strains.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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