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Identification of Coli Surface Antigen 23, a novel adhesin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli.
Del Canto, Felipe; Botkin, Douglas J; Valenzuela, Patricio; Popov, Vsevolod; Ruiz-Perez, Fernando; Nataro, James P; Levine, Myron M; Stine, O Colin; Pop, Mihai; Torres, Alfredo G; Vidal, Roberto.
Afiliação
  • Del Canto F; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Infect Immun ; 80(8): 2791-801, 2012 Aug.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22645287
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea, mainly in developing countries. Although there are 25 different ETEC adhesins described in strains affecting humans, between 15% and 50% of the clinical isolates from different geographical regions are negative for these adhesins, suggesting that additional unidentified adhesion determinants might be present. Here, we report the discovery of Coli Surface Antigen 23 (CS23), a novel adhesin expressed by an ETEC serogroup O4 strain (ETEC 1766a), which was negative for the previously known ETEC adhesins, albeit it has the ability to adhere to Caco-2 cells. CS23 is encoded by an 8.8-kb locus which contains 9 open reading frames (ORFs), 7 of them sharing significant identity with genes required for assembly of K88-related fimbriae. This gene locus, named aal (adhesion-associated locus), is required for the adhesion ability of ETEC 1766a and was able to confer this adhesive phenotype to a nonadherent E. coli HB101 strain. The CS23 major structural subunit, AalE, shares limited identity with known pilin proteins, and it is more closely related to the CS13 pilin protein CshE, carried by human ETEC strains. Our data indicate that CS23 is a new member of the diverse adhesin repertoire used by ETEC strains.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica / Adesinas Bacterianas / Proteínas de Escherichia coli / Escherichia coli Enterotoxigênica / Antígenos de Bactérias Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Infect Immun Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Chile País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Regulação Bacteriana da Expressão Gênica / Adesinas Bacterianas / Proteínas de Escherichia coli / Escherichia coli Enterotoxigênica / Antígenos de Bactérias Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: Infect Immun Ano de publicação: 2012 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Chile País de publicação: Estados Unidos