Identification and characterization of CS20, a new putative colonization factor of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Valvatne, H
RESUMO
An enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain producing a previously undescribed putative colonization factor was isolated from a child with diarrhea in India. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of bacterial heat extracts revealed a polypeptide band of 20.8 kDa when the bacteria were grown at 37 degrees C which was absent after growth at 22 degrees C. A specific rabbit antiserum raised against the purified 20.8-kDa protein bound specifically to the fimbriae, as shown by immunoelectron microscopy, and inhibited bacterial adhesion to tissue-cultured Caco-2 cells. Transformation with a recombinant plasmid harboring the cfaD gene, which encodes a positive regulator for several ETEC fimbriae, induced hyperexpression of the 20.8-kDa fimbrial subunit and a substantial increase in the proportion of bacterial cells that were fimbriated. The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the polypeptide showed 65 and 60% identity to the PCFO20 and 987P fimbriae of human and porcine ETEC, respectively. We propose the term CS20 for this new putative colonization factor of human ETEC.
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