Genetic Basis of Vi Antigen Expression in Salmonella paratyphi C
AUTOR(ES)
Snellings, Norma J.
RESUMO
Analysis of hybrids formed in a cross between a Salmonella paratyphi C Hfr and an S. typhimurium recipient indicated that the structural genetic determinants of the S. paratyphi C Vi antigen are located closely adjacent to the mel determinant, between this marker and purA. A similar location was indicated for the structural genetic determinants of the S. typhi Vi antigen (the viaB locus) by the results of a mating in which a hybrid S. typhimurium Hfr bearing the S. typhi viaB determinants was used to transfer these genes to an S. typhimurium recipient. Mating experiments with a Vi-antigen-expressing S. typhi Hfr and an S. typhimurium hybrid recipient expressing the Vi antigen of S. paratyphi C yielded no recombinants in which loss of Vi antigen expression occurred, indicating that the chromosomal locus occupied by the genetic determinants of the S. paratyphi C Vi antigen is the same one at which, in S. typhi, the viaB genes reside. Introduction of a mutant S. typhi viaA gene into an S. typhimurium hybrid expressing the Vi antigen, as the consequence of prior receipt of the S. paratyphi C viaB determinants, resulted in that hybrid's loss of Vi antigen expression, demonstrating that the viaA determinant plays a role in Vi antigen expression in S. paratyphi C, as well as in S. typhi. Although the percentages of coinheritance of the viaB and mel determinants in the mating experiments suggested that their linkage is sufficiently close to allow cotransduction by P22, attempts to accomplish this with lysates prepared on S. typhimurium hybrids expressing either S. typhi or S. paratyphi C viaB determinants were not successful.
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