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Development of a universal intimin antiserum and PCR primers.


ABSTRACT: Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) constitute a significant risk to human health worldwide. A hallmark of both pathogens is their ability to produce characteristic attaching-and-effacing (A/E) lesions in intestinal epithelial cells. Genes encoding A/E lesion formation map to a chromosomal pathogenicity island termed the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE). Intimin, an LEE-encoded bacterial adhesion molecule, mediates the intimate bacterium-host cell interaction characteristic of A/E lesions. On the basis of characterization of the C-terminal 280-amino-acid cell binding domain of intimin (Int280(661-939)), four distinct Int280 types (types alpha, beta, gamma, and delta) have been identified. Importantly, Int280alpha and Int280beta antisera specifically recognized their respective intimin types. Using a conserved region of the intimin molecule (Int(388-667)) and primers synthesized to generate the recombinant Int(388-667), we have now generated universal intimin antiserum and PCR primers that are reactive with the different intimin types expressed by both human and animal A/E lesion-forming strains. Use of immunogold electron microscopy to visualize intimin on the surfaces of EPEC and EHEC strains revealed, in general, a uniform distribution on the bacterial cell surface. However, a filamentous staining pattern was observed with a few strains expressing intimin gamma. Cloning of the intimin eae gene from one such strain (strain ICC57) into strain CVD206, an EPEC strain which harbors a null deletion in eae, produced a uniform intimin staining pattern indicating that, if the filamentous staining pattern defines a filamentous form of intimin gamma, it is dependent upon the genetic background of the strain and is not a feature of the intimin molecule.

SUBMITTER: Batchelor M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC85821 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Development of a universal intimin antiserum and PCR primers.

Batchelor M M   Knutton S S   Caprioli A A   Huter V V   Zanial M M   Dougan G G   Frankel G G  

Journal of clinical microbiology 19991201 12


Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) constitute a significant risk to human health worldwide. A hallmark of both pathogens is their ability to produce characteristic attaching-and-effacing (A/E) lesions in intestinal epithelial cells. Genes encoding A/E lesion formation map to a chromosomal pathogenicity island termed the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE). Intimin, an LEE-encoded bacterial adhesion molecule, mediates the intimate bacterium-host cell in  ...[more]

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