鼠伤寒沙门菌rtsB基因缺失株的构建及其生物学特性

【背景】鼠伤寒沙门菌(Salmonella typhimurium)是一种重要的人畜共患病原菌,严重危害养殖业及人类健康。调控蛋白在病原菌的生存及感染过程中发挥重要作用。【目的】构建鼠伤寒沙门菌调控基因rtsB缺失株和互补株,分析调控蛋白RstB对鼠伤寒沙门菌生物学特性和致病性的影响。【方法】利用Red同源重组的方法构建鼠伤寒沙门菌SAT52的rtsB基因缺失株,并利用互补质粒构建互补株。然后比较分析野生株SAT52、缺失株?rtsB和互补株C?rtsB的生长特性、运动性、生物被膜形成能力、黏附入侵能力、胞内存活能力及致病性的差异。【结果】缺失rtsB基因不影响SAT52的生长速度,但导致运动能力增强,生物被膜形成能力减弱。细胞感染试验结果表明,rtsB基因有助于鼠伤寒沙门菌对Hela细胞的黏附入侵及RAW264.7细胞内的存活。动物试验结果表明rtsB基因缺失显著降低鼠伤寒沙门菌的致病力。【结论】rtsB基因在鼠伤寒沙门菌感染过程中发挥重要作用,可为阐释鼠伤寒沙门菌的致病机制提供参考。     

鼠伤寒沙门菌外膜蛋白与耐药性关系的分析

目的分析鼠伤寒沙门菌外膜蛋白(OMP)与耐药性的关系。方法用消除剂丫啶橙消除耐药性,盲传测其遗传稳定性,采用超声波物理裂解法制备鼠伤寒沙门菌外膜蛋白标本,用变性聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳(SDA-PAGE)检测外膜蛋白,用紫外分光光度计测其吸光值,计算浓度。结果抗性消除表型能稳定遗传,耐药鼠伤寒沙门菌与敏感鼠伤寒沙门菌都含有6条主要的外膜蛋白条带,两者相比,发现耐药菌的外膜蛋白在约57、53、30 kDa处减弱或缺失,总的蛋白浓度也低于后者。结论鼠伤寒沙门菌耐药性与外膜蛋白的减弱或缺失有关。     

禽大肠杆菌、肠炎、鼠伤寒、鸡白痢及鸡伤寒沙门菌多重PCR方法的建立及应用

【背景】大肠杆菌病和沙门菌病是最常见的家禽细菌性疾病,给养禽业造成严重经济损失。另外,禽大肠杆菌和沙门菌也是重要的人畜共患病原菌,可通过禽类及其产品传播给人类,对人类健康造成严重威胁。加强禽大肠杆菌和沙门菌的快速鉴别检测,对养禽业和公共卫生都具有重要意义。【目的】建立禽大肠杆菌、肠炎沙门菌、鼠伤寒沙门菌、鸡白痢沙门菌和鸡伤寒沙门菌的多重PCR检测方法。【方法】通过比较分析确定禽致病性大肠杆菌、肠炎沙门菌、鼠伤寒沙门菌、鸡白痢沙门菌和鸡伤寒沙门菌的特异靶标基因,设计5对特异性引物,通过条件优化建立多重PCR方法,分析该多重PCR方法的特异性、敏感性及可靠性。【结果】该方法能特异性地鉴定禽致病性大肠杆菌、肠炎沙门菌、鼠伤寒沙门菌、鸡白痢沙门菌和鸡伤寒沙门菌,每个PCR反应的最低检出限分别为103 CFU细菌和100 pg基因组DNA。临床分离菌株检测显示,多重PCR与传统血清学方法结果一致。【结论】建立的多重PCR方法能够快速鉴别禽致病性大肠杆菌和不同血清型沙门菌,对禽大肠杆菌病和沙门菌病的流行病学调查及临床检测具有重要意义。     

鼠伤寒沙门菌spvB基因缺陷突变株的构建

高度保守的spvB基因,其编码产物具有ADP核糖基转移酶活性,是导致受染后细胞发生凋亡的重要毒力因子.为进一步研究该基因致病机制,构建了鼠伤寒沙门菌spvB基因缺陷突变株.根据GenBank鼠伤寒沙门菌spvB基因序列,用Primer Premier 5.0设计PCR特异性引物,获得spvB基因缺陷性核苷酸片段后连接至自杀质粒PGMB151.将构建的自杀载体导入含有spvB基因的鼠伤寒沙门菌标准株SR-11中进行同源重组,PCR筛选缺陷突变株.经PCR和DNA序列测定,成功获得了spvB基因缺陷的鼠伤寒沙门菌突变株.     

TassC结合过氧化物酶体对早期受染巨噬细胞内的鼠伤寒沙门菌的影响

探讨鼠伤寒沙门菌在感染鼠巨噬细胞早期与细胞器的相互作用。用pTassC-GFP质粒转染鼠巨噬细胞RAW264.7,结合多抗的溶酶体标志物溶酶体相关膜蛋白-1用键合了Alexa594的羊抗鼠二抗显色,以观察标记了绿色荧光蛋白的TassC与溶酶体的关系;用pTassC-GFP和pDsRed2-Perxi质粒共转染RAW264.7细胞,以观察TassC-GFP与过氧化物酶体的关系;用SYTO42标记鼠伤寒沙门菌,感染用pTassC-GFP和pDsRed2-Perxi质粒共转染的RAW264.7细胞,以观察细菌与TassC和过氧化物酶体的关系。免疫荧光显示TassC-GFP不与鼠巨噬细胞RAW264.7中的溶酶体结合,但与标记了红色荧光的过氧化物酶体共定位;感染1 h的RAW264.7胞内SYTO42标记的鼠伤寒沙门菌吞噬泡可招募TassC-GFP和过氧化物酶体。这些发现提示在鼠伤寒沙门菌感染早期过氧化物酶体携带杀菌成分通过TassC介导可参与发挥一定的杀菌作用。     

临床和非临床分离沙门菌的菌型分布及对抗生素的耐药性研究

目的：探讨沙门菌在腹泻病人粪便、外环境污水和部分动物标本中的菌型分布及其对抗生素的耐药性。方法：采用血清学方法对沙门菌进行分群和分型,采用K—B法进行抗生素耐药性测定。结果：410份临床腹泻病人标本和514份非临床标本共检出沙门菌93株,检出率为10．1％,其菌型分布为：腹泻病人粪便中检出的均为B群鼠伤寒沙门菌(6／93),非临床标本中的菌型主要为C2群纽波特沙门菌(72／93),还有E1群伦敦沙门菌(7／93)、B群鼠伤寒沙门菌(2／93)和未定型(6／93)。87株沙门菌对青霉素的耐药率最高(96．5％),其次为SMZ TMP(73．6％),未发现对新霉素、链霉素、四环素和阿米卡星的耐药株。结论：实验结果可为研究我省沙门菌的菌型分布及其对抗生素的耐药性提供参考;临床上应加强对鼠伤寒沙门菌引起腹泻的监测。     

伤寒沙门菌耐药质粒体内接合转移的研究

目的研究伤寒沙门菌耐药质粒pRST98在小鼠体内向大肠埃希菌的接合转移,比较质粒在体内、外接合转移的异同。方法由于伤寒沙门菌是一种只对人类致病的病原菌,因此将伤寒沙门菌的耐药质粒pRST98导入遗传背景明确的鼠伤寒沙门菌低毒株RIA中,用接合子pRST98/RIA口饲BALB/c小鼠进行体内接合转移。结果在体外伤寒沙门菌很容易将pRST98转移给大肠埃希菌E.coliK12W1485(F-)RifrLac+,该接合子又可将pRST98转移给鼠伤寒沙门菌RIA,但在不同宿主菌中耐药标志的表达有差异。未经人工感染小鼠肠道分离的大肠埃希菌耐药情况严重,口饲pRST98/RIA后出现了部分耐药标志与pRST98耐药谱相同的大肠埃希菌,但有些抗生素的耐药标记未能表达。质粒检测显示体内形成的接合子均含耐药质粒pRST98。结论伤寒沙门菌耐药质粒pRST98在动物体内、外均可转移给大肠埃希菌,但同一质粒在体内、外大肠埃希菌株中耐药标志表达有差异,即使在同一小鼠体内分离的不同接合子,pRST98/E.coli菌株耐药性亦有不同,显示耐药质粒表达的多样性和复杂性。     

采用伤寒沙门菌替代菌种降低微生物实验教学感染风险

《临床微生物学检验》是医学检验技术专业的专业课之一,其中的实验教学学时占总学时的50%。由于学生实验室生物安全的要求,限制了一些临床常见致病菌种鉴定的教学内容。为保证微生物鉴定菌种的临床实战性,同时又降低学生实验室感染的风险,在肠杆菌科的实验教学中,我们探索采用对人无感染性的鼠伤寒沙门菌种替代相对高感染风险的伤寒沙门菌种,利用两种菌在生物学特性上极为相似甚至相同的特点,既完成了大纲要求的伤寒沙门菌全部实验教学内容,同时又极大地降低了伤寒沙门菌感染的风险,达到教学效果。     

肿瘤生物治疗的新方法——减毒鼠伤寒沙门菌的应用

减毒鼠伤寒沙门菌由于具有肿瘤靶向性,能在肿瘤组织中复制并产生抗肿瘤效果的能力,使肿瘤治疗获得了新契机。减毒鼠伤寒沙门菌作为细菌载体使目的基因在肿瘤组织内特异表达,表现出良好治疗效果。近期研究发现,单独使用突变后的菌株A1-R在裸鼠模型上治疗乳腺癌和前列腺癌分别可达到40％和50％的治愈率;在小鼠肿瘤转移模型中也展现出良好的治疗效果。鼠伤寒沙门菌作为肿瘤治疗制剂有诱人的前景。本文就这些研究的最新进展做一综述。     

6种沙门菌单克隆抗体的制备和效能评价

目的：制备稳定、特异、高亲和性的分别针对甲型副伤寒沙门菌、乙型副伤寒沙门菌、丙型副伤寒沙门菌、肠炎沙门菌、伤寒沙门菌和猪霍乱沙门菌的单克隆抗体。方法：用甲醛灭活的菌液抗原免疫BALB／c小鼠,取脾细胞与SP2／0骨髓瘤细胞融合;用灭活的菌液包被酶标板,ELISA筛选阳性克隆株,建立细胞系;选取高效分泌杂交瘤细胞,常规制备腹水并纯化,进行单抗特异性与亲和性评价。结果：筛选得到分泌6种沙门菌相应单克隆抗体的杂交瘤细胞株,获得高亲和性单抗;所有单抗与大部分病原菌（包括7种沙门菌、3株志贺菌、2株李斯特菌、4株致病性大肠杆菌、2株霍乱弧菌）无交叉反应,但由于同类型O抗原的广泛分布,抗乙型副伤寒沙门菌单抗与鼠伤寒沙门菌、抗伤寒沙门菌单抗与肠炎沙门菌有明显的交叉反应。结论：沙门菌单抗的制备,为感染性腹泻的监测、诊断奠定了基础。     

Salmonella interactions with host cells: in vitro to in vivo

Salmonellosis (diseases caused by Salmonella species) have several clinical manifestations, ranging from gastroenteritis (food poisoning) to typhoid (enteric) fever and bacteraemia. Salmonella species (especially Salmonella typhimurium) also represent organisms that can be readily used to investigate the complex interplay that occurs between a pathogen and its host, both in vitro and in vivo. The ease with which S. typhimurium can be cultivated and genetically manipulated, in combination with the availability of tissue culture models and animal models, has made S. typhimurium a desirable organism for such studies. In this review, we focus on Salmonella interactions with its host cells, both in tissue culture (in vitro) and in relevant animal models (in vivo), and compare results obtained using these different models. The recent advent of sophisticated imaging and molecular genetic tools has facilitated studying the events that occur in disease, thereby confirming tissue culture results, yet identifying new questions that need to be addressed in relevant disease settings.     

The putative iron transport system SitABCD encoded on SPI1 is required for full virulence of Salmonella typhimurium

Salmonella typhimurium is an invasive pathogen that causes diseases ranging from mild gastroenteritis to enteric fever. During the infection process, S. typhimurium induces a number of virulence genes required to circumvent host defences and/or acquire nutrients in the host. We have used the in vivo expression technology (IVET) system to select for S. typhimurium genes that are induced after invasion of a murine cultured cell line. We have characterized a putative iron transporter in Salmonella pathogenicity island 1, termed sitABCD. The sitABCD operon is induced under iron-deficient conditions in vitro and is repressed by Fur. This locus is induced in the animal specifically after invasion of the intestinal epithelium. We show that a sit null mutant is significantly attenuated in BALB/c mice, suggesting that SitABCD plays an important role in iron acquisition in the animal.     

Modulation of Salmonella infection by the lectins of Canavalia ensiformis (Con A) and Galanthus nivalis (GNA) in a rat model in vivo

The plant lectins, Concanavalin A (Con A) and Galanthus nivalis agglutinin (GNA) have been prefed to rats for 3 d pre- and 6 d postinfection with Salmonella typhimurium S986 or Salm. enteritidis 857. Con A significantly increased numbers of Salm. typhimurium S986 in the large intestine and in faeces, and severely impaired growth of the rats, more severely than is the case of infection with Salmonella typhimurium alone. Con A had much less effect on rats infected with Salm. enteritidis 857 only showing a significant increase in numbers in the colon, accompanied by intermittent increases of Salmonella in the faeces during the study. GNA significantly reduced pathogen numbers in the lower part of the small bowel and the large intestine of rats infected with Salm. typhimurium S986 and significantly improved rat growth. GNA had little effect on infection by Salm. enteritidis 857 with slight decreases in Salmonella numbers in the small intestine and large intestine and transient increases in the faeces.     

A mouse model for S. typhimurium-induced enterocolitis

Salmonella typhimurium has emerged as a model pathogen that manipulates host cells in a complex fashion, thus causing disease. In humans, S. typhimurium causes acute intestinal inflammation. Intriguingly, type III secreted virulence proteins have a central role in this process. At the cellular level, the functions of these factors are well characterized; at present, animal models are required for elucidating how these factors trigger inflammatory disease in vivo. Calf infection models have been employed successfully and, recently, a mouse model was identified: in streptomycin-pretreated mice, S. typhimurium causes acute colitis. This mouse model provides a new avenue for research into acute intestinal inflammation because it enables the manipulation and dissection of both the bacterial and host contributions to the disease in unsurpassed detail.     

Inhibition of dinitropyrene mutagenicity in vitro and in vivo using Salmonella typhimurium and the intrasanguinous host-mediated assay

Dinitropyrenes (DNP), present in polluted air, are potent direct-acting mutagens in Salmonella typhimurium TA98. This mutagenicity is markedly reduced in the presence of rat-liver S9 or microsomes. This has now been confirmed using mouse hepatic fractions. Since most in vitro test systems do not adequately simulate conditions encountered in the intact animal, we have investigated dinitropyrene mutagenicity to Salmonella in the host-mediated assay. 1,8-Dinitropyrene (1,8-DNP) given p.o. to BALB/c mice induced a weak mutagenic effect in S. typhimurium TA98 recovered from the liver 1 h after i.v. administration (optimum time). Over the entire dose range tested no toxicity to bacterial cells was detected. Mutation induction in vivo was dose-related with maximum response at 1 mg DNP/kg body weight. This optimum dose, however, was non-mutagenic to strains TA98/1,8-DNP6 (O-transacetylase-deficient) or TA98NR/1,8-DNP6 (nitroreductase- and O-transacetylase-deficient). 1,3-Dinitropyrene and 1,6-dinitropyrene were weakly mutagenic to TA98 at doses similar to 1,8-DNP. Studies with [14C]1,8-DNP showed that 1 h after oral dosing (1 mg/kg), over 100 ng of 1,8-DNP equivalents were present in the liver (= 0.73% dose). However, only about 5.5 ng were present in the bacterial pellet, suggesting that hepatic components in vivo, as in vitro, bind to DNP, thus interfering with its interaction with Salmonella.     

Mutation of the htrB gene in a virulent Salmonella typhimurium strain by intergeneric transduction: strain construction and phenotypic characterization.

The htrB gene product of Haemophilus influenzae contributes to the toxicity of the lipooligosaccharide. The htrB gene encodes a 2-keto-3-deoxyoctulosonic acid-dependent acyltransferase which is responsible for myristic acid substitutions at the hydroxy moiety of lipid A beta-hydroxymyristic acid. Mass spectroscopic analysis has demonstrated that lipid A from an H. influenzae htrB mutant is predominantly tetraacyl and similar in structure to lipid IV(A), which has been shown to be nontoxic in animal models. We sought to construct a Salmonella typhimurium htrB mutant in order to investigate the contribution of htrB to virulence in a well-defined murine typhoid model of animal pathogenesis. To this end, an r- m+ galE mutS recD strain of S. typhimurium was constructed (MGS-7) and used in inter- and intrastrain transduction experiments with both coliphage P1 and Salmonella phage P22. The Escherichia coli htrB gene containing a mini-Tn10 insertion was transduced from E. coli MLK217 into S. typhimurium MGS-7 via phage P1 and subsequently via phage P22 into the virulent Salmonella strain SL1344. All S. typhimurium transductants showed phenotypes similar to those described for the E. coli htrB mutant. Mass spectrometric analysis of the crude lipid A fraction from the lipopolysaccharide of the S. typhimurium htrB mutant strain showed that for the dominant hexaacyl form, a lauric acid moiety was lost at one position on the lipid A and a palmitic acid moiety was added at another position; for the less abundant heptaacyl species, the lauric acid was replaced with palmitoleic acid.     

SopD acts cooperatively with SopB during Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invasion

The intracellular bacterial pathogen, Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), causes disease in a variety of hosts. To invade and replicate in host cells, these bacteria subvert host molecular machinery using bacterial proteins, called effectors, which they translocate into host cells using specialized protein delivery systems. One of these effectors, SopD, contributes to gastroenteritis, systemic virulence and persistence of S. typhimurium in animal models of infection. Recently, SopD has been implicated in invasion of polarized epithelial cells and here we investigate the features of SopD-mediated invasion. We show that SopD plays a role in membrane fission and macropinosome formation during S. typhimurium invasion, events previously shown to be mediated by the SopB effector. We further demonstrate that SopD acts cooperatively with SopB to promote these events during invasion. Using live cell imaging we show that a SopD-GFP fusion does not localize to HeLa cell cytosol as previously described, but instead is membrane associated. Upon S. typhimurium infection of these cells, SopD-GFP is recruited to the invasion site, and this recruitment required the phosphatase activity of SopB. Our findings demonstrate a role for SopD in manipulation of host-cell membrane during S. typhimurium invasion and reveal the nature of its cooperative action with SopB.     

Studies on salmonellosis in the house mouse, Mus musculus.

Salmonellae were isolated from the faeces from 17 of 170 (10%) wild house mice. Salmonella typhimurium was isolated from 10, S. typhimurium, var. Copenhagen from 2, S. thompson from 1, and S. muenchen from 4. It was concluded that house mice could be a reservoir of infection and play an important role in human and animal salmonellosis.     

Ribosomal ribonucleic acid isolated from Salmonella typhimurium: absence of the intact 23S species.

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) isolated by four distinct methods and from a variety of Salmonella typhimurium strains lacked intact 23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA). On sucrose gradients which minimize aggregation, the vast majority of S. typhimurium rRNA sedimented as a 16S peak with a 14S shoulder. RNA from this region of the gradient was resolved into three discrete bands by electrophoresis in formamide. Two very minor S. typhimurium RNA peaks were resolved at 21S and 10S on sucrose gradients, and each peak formed discrete bands in electrophoresis. It is concluded that if S. typhimurium does possess an intact 23S rRNA species, this species is extremely "labile." The absence of isolatable S. typhimurium 23S rRNA possibly reflected in vivo processing of the rRNA before isolation. Under certain conditions, S. typhimurium rRNA formed discrete aggregates which sedimented similarly to intact Escherichia coli 23S rRNA.