Examination of diverse toxin-coregulated pilus-positive Vibrio cholerae strains fails to demonstrate evidence for Vibrio pathogenicity island phage

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作者
Faruque, SM
Zhu, J
Asadulghani
Kamruzzaman, M
Mekalanos, JJ
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Dept Microbiol & Mol Genet, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Int Ctr Diarrhoeal Dis Res, Mol Genet Lab, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
关键词
ENVIRONMENTAL STRAINS; CTX-PHI; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; PROTEIN TCPA; O139; BENGAL; GENE; COLONIZATION; BACTERIOPHAGE; IDENTIFY; BIOTYPE;
D O I
10.1128/IAI.71.6.2993-2999.2003
中图分类号
R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
学科分类号
100102 ;
摘要
The major virulence factors of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae are cholera toxin, which is encoded by a lysogenic filamentous bacteriophage (CTXPhi), and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), an essential colonization factor that is also the receptor for CTXPhi. The genes involved in the biosynthesis of TCP reside in a pathogenicity island, which has been reported to correspond to the genome of another filamentous phage (designated VPIPhi) and to encode functions necessary for the production of infectious VPIPhi particles. We examined 46 V. cholerae strains having diverse origins and carrying different genetic variants of the TCP island for the production of the VPIPhi and CTXPhi in different culture conditions, including induction of prophages with mitomycin C and UV irradiation. Although 9 of 10 V cholerae 0139 strains and 12 of 15 toxigenic El Tor strains tested produced extracellular CTXPhi, none of the 46 TCP-positive strains produced detectable VPIPhi in repeated assays, which detected as few as 10 particles of a control CTX phage per ml. These results contradict the previous report regarding VPIPhi-mediated horizontal transfer of the TCP genes and suggest that the TCP island is unable to support the production of phage particles. Further studies are necessary to understand the mechanism of horizontal transfer of the TCP island.
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