Staphylococcal Enterotoxin D

Purification of enterotoxin D from Staphylococcus aureus 494 was attempted by utilizing the following techniques: Concentration of bacterial culture supernatant with polyethylene glycol 20000, CM-cellulose column chromatography, Sephadex G-100 gel-filtration, chromatography on a DEAE cellulose column with concave gradient elution and gel-filtration with Sephadex G-50. The final preparation obtained gave a single precipitin line with anti-crude enterotoxin D serum and no precipitation with anti-enterotoxin A, B or C when it was tested by Ouchterlony's technique. It was capable of producing 100% emesis in monkeys at about 1.25 μg of protein per kg body weight. Antiserum prepared by injecting rabbits with the purified preparation gave a single precipitin line with concentrated crude toxin, and it also gave a single arc when tested in immunoelectrophoresis with concentrated crude toxin. A type-specific neutralization effect in monkeys was obtained. Thus, enterotoxin D has been identified with a purified preparation.     

层析等电聚焦法提纯葡萄球菌肠毒素D

 我们成功地建立了层析等电聚焦的三步程序,分离提纯葡萄球菌D型肠毒素。首先用CG-50树脂吸附由细菌培养液中获得粗毒素,然后在PBE94柱上进行层析等电聚焦,最后经过Sephacryls-200过滤。纯化的SED纯度约98%,回收率89%,分子量为28500,pI 7.6。Western blot,免疫双向琼脂扩散的鉴定试验表明,纯化SED与其相应抗血清是特异性反应。     

Regulation of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B

Several factors influenced the formation of enterotoxin B by Staphylococcus aureus strain S-6. In the standard casein hydrolysate medium, toxin was not produced in detectable quantities during exponential growth; it was produced during the post-exponential phase when total protein synthesis was arithmetic. The rate of toxin synthesis was much greater than the rate of total protein synthesis. The appearance of enterotoxin was inhibited by chloramphenicol; thus, the presence of toxin was dependent on de novo protein synthesis. When low concentrations of glucose (<0.30%) were added to the casein hydrolysate medium, growth was diauxic; glucose was completely metabolized during the first growth period. During the second growth period, enterotoxin was synthesized. In unbuffered casein hydrolysate medium containing excess glucose, toxin synthesis was completely repressed. The absence of toxin production under such conditions might be explained by the low (4.6) pH resulting from the acid end products of glucose metabolism. At pH <5.0, little or no toxin was produced. Toxin synthesis was initiated in the presence of glucose when the medium were buffered at any pH above 5.6. In such media, the differential rates of toxin synthesis, with respect to the rates of total protein synthesis, were lower than the differential rates in casein hydrolysate medium alone. Addition of glucose to a culture synthesizing toxin resulted in an immediate decrease in the differential rate without any change in pH. Thus, toxin synthesis appeared to be regulated by catabolite repression.     

Production of Antiserum for Staphylococcal Enterotoxin

Immunization of rabbits with approximately 95% pure enterotoxin B and approximately 20 and 50% pure enterotoxin A yielded specific antisera which required no and little absorption, respectively, when used in the slide double-diffusion test. Methods for purifying enterotoxin A and for the production and absorption of antisera are presented.     

Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin in Food

Methods are described for the extraction and serological detection of trace amounts of enterotoxins A and B in foods incriminated in outbreaks of staphylococcal food poisoning. Evidence is presented for the probable applicability of the methods for the detection of unidentified enterotoxins.     

Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin in Foods

A short procedure for the extraction of staphylococcal enterotoxins from food materials has been developed. The procedure involves extraction of the food at pH 4.5, centrifugation, extraction of the supernatant with CHCl(3) (pH 7.5), extraction of the enterotoxin from the water layer with CG-50 ion exchange resin (pH 5.4 to 5.9), and treatment of the eluate with agar and concentration with Carbowax 20-M. The concentrate was extracted with CHCl(3), and the water layer was lyophilized. The dried material was dissolved in a 1% trypsin solution and placed on microslides, which were incubated 24 h at 37 C. The time required for enterotoxin analysis was 3 days with microslides and 1 day with the reversed passive hemagglutination technique.     

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B: Solid-Phase Radioimmunoassay

An immunoassay employing (125)I-labeled enterotoxin B and polystyrene tubes coated with specific antibody was used for assaying purified and crude enterotoxin. Antibody was adsorbed to untreated polystyrene tubes. Unlabeled enterotoxin competed with (125)I-labeled enterotoxin for antibody-combining sites. The uptake of (125)I-labeled toxin reflected the concentration of unlabeled toxin present. The test is sensitive to 1 to 5 ng of purified and crude enterotoxin B per ml, and cross-reactions with heterologous enterotoxins did not interfere with the specificity. This test possesses the combination of sensitivity and objectivity absent in current methods for assaying enterotoxin and provides a model for investigating other enterotoxin serotypes.     

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin C: Solid-Phase Radioimmunoassay

A solid-phase radioimmunoassay test employing 125I-labeled enterotoxin C and polystyrene tubes coated with specific antibody was used for the detection and quantitation of entertoxin C in condensed milk, cheddar cheese, custard, and ham salad. The assay was sensitive to 1 to 10 ng of toxin per g of food; nonspecific inhibitions were 16% or less.     

葡萄球菌A型肠毒素的高效表达和分离纯化

根据已知葡萄球菌A型肠毒素 (SEA)的基因序列 ,用PCR从产毒标准株S .aureusFRI 10 0中扩增得到约70 0的SEA基因片段 ,并将该片段克隆至表达载体 pBV2 2 0中 ,实现了高效表达。表达产物以可溶性形式存在 ,表达的毒素用CM SephroseFF离子交换层析进行纯化 ,获得了高纯度的重组SEA ,SDS PAGE显示单一条带。ELISA试验证明所获重组SEA具有与天然SEA相似的免疫学性质。     

Biologic Activity of Cell-Associated Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A

Cell associated staphylococcal enterotoxin A, released by lysostaphin treatment of Staphylococcus aureus cells, was found to be biologically active in cynomolgus monkeys. The activity was comparable to that of extracellular enterotoxin A; six of six monkeys vomited within 5 h in response to extracellular enterotoxin and four of six also vomited in response to the same serologic level (4.8 μg per monkey) of cell-associated enterotoxin. Feeding S. aureus cells containing cell-associated enterotoxin A to cynomolgus monkeys resulted in emesis in three of five monkeys within 3 h. This suggests that consumption of S. aureus cells could lead to staphylococcal intoxication.     

Backbone resonance assignment of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin H

The staphylococcal enterotoxin H (SEH; 217 aa, 25 kD) belongs to a family of superantigens that cause a massive immune response upon simultaneous binding to the T cell receptor (TCR) and the major histocompatibility complex class II. The SEH-TCR interaction is weak and amenable to studies using NMR methodology. Essentially, 2 mg of U{²H, ¹³C,¹⁵N}-labeled SEH was used for the complete sequential backbone assignment of SEH at 900 MHz. The protein secondary structure inferred from the chemical shift index (C_α and C_β) is in very good agreement with the secondary structure elements of the X-ray structure.     

Rapid, Sensitive Assay for Staphylococcal Enterotoxin and a Comparison of Serological Methods

Reversed passive hemagglutination was used to assay enterotoxin in culture filtrates and in food samples. With cells tanned and then sensitized with antitoxin globulin and preserved with either formaldehyde or pyruvic aldehyde, as little as 0.0007 mug of enterotoxin was detectable. The results of hemagglutination tests compared well with those obtained by quantitative precipitin tests or by immunodiffusion, but hemagglutination was 50 to 100 times more sensitive than the immunodiffusion technique. In addition, results of the hemagglutination test were available within a few hours, and neither elimination of interfering proteins from food extracts nor concentration of the sample, both of which are necessary for immunodiffusion, was required for this procedure.     

Resistance of Free-Living Nematodes to Staphylococcal Enterotoxin

The usefulness of free-living nematodes for assaying staphylococcal enterotoxin was evaluated with a 98% pure enterotoxin B on five different nematodes. Included in the evaluation was an enterotoxin B in a crude culture filtrate. The filtrate of a culture of nonenterotoxigenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the uninoculated respective broth media, and distilled water were used as controls. The purified enterotoxin was found to exert no toxic effects at dosages ranging from 10 to 1,000 μg/ml for as long as 24 hr. Utilization of the toxin-protein by these nematodes was evidenced by their propagation after exposure times longer than 24 hr. The crude filtrate, containing 28 μg of enterotoxin per ml, was detrimental to nematodes to the same degree as the nontoxic filtrate and the uninoculated broths, in that they all caused irritation to external genitalia, motility changes, and death after comparable exposure times. This is in agreement with earlier observations that standard bacteriological fluid media, or broths containing over 1% protein hydrolysate or 1 to 2% salts, exert toxic effects on free-living nematodes.     

Production of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A on Cellophane-Over-Agar

Up to approximately 50 mug of staphylococcal enterotoxin A per plate was produced by cellophane-over-agar cultures. Enterotoxin was determined by a latex agglutination technique.     

Staphylococcal Growth and Enterotoxin Production in Meat

Preliminary attempts were made to explain the association of staphylococcal food poisoning with cooked rather than uncooked meats. The abilities of various meats to support the growth of an enterotoxigenic staphylococcus, and the production of enterotoxin A, were determined. The production of enterotoxin was detected by means of serological procedures. Little or no growth was obtained when the inoculum was mixed with raw ground beef. When the surfaces of raw and cooked meats were inoculated, however, good growth was obtained with the production of enterotoxin.     

Microtiter Hemagglutination-Inhibition Assay for Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B

The rapid microtiter technique was investigated as a means of facilitating the detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin B. With this technique, many samples were assayed simultaneously, and readable results were obtained in 3 hr. Other advantages of this method, in addition to speed, were the small quantity of reactants used, ease of reading, and reproducibility.     

抗B型葡萄球菌肠毒素单克隆抗体的研制及其鉴定

本文用纯化B型葡萄球菌肠毒素(SEB)免疫Balb/c小鼠的脾细胞与SP2/O骨髓瘤细胞融合,经筛选及克隆化共获6株能稳定分泌抗SEB的单克隆抗体(McAb)杂交瘤细胞株。通过将以混合佐剂(降植烷 FIA的混合物)和杂交瘤细胞同时注射制备McAb腹水的方法与常规法相比较,不仅量多(多1.56～1.84倍),而且活性好(高1个数量级)。初步鉴定表明:6株McAb均属IgGl亚类;其培养上清和腹水的ELISA滴度分别为10~(-3)～10~(-4)和10~(-5)～10~(-8)。它们与SEA均不起反应,其中3株(Sl.B4和E7)与SECl有轻微交叉反应;都能被10μg/m的SEB完全阻断等。说明其免疫学活性及特异性均较良好。     

Double-Antibody Radioimmunoassay for Staphylococcal Enterotoxin C2

A sensitive double-antibody radioimmunoassay for staphylococcal enterotoxin C₂ is described. The assay procedure employs anti-rabbit gamma globulin, prepared in goats, to precipitate the antigen-antibody complex of enterotoxin C₂ and anti-enterotoxin C₂. The test is sensitive to 100 pg of enterotoxin.     

Rapid Solid-Phase Radioimmunoassay for Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A

A rapid solid-phase radioimmunoassay for staphylococcal enterotoxin A is described. The assay procedure requires 3 to 4 h for completion by using a competitive inhibition system in which the antibody is attached to bromacetyl cellulose particles. It is accurate to a level of 0.01 mug of enterotoxin A/ml in a variety of media such as ham, milk products, crab meat, custard, etc. No significant interference was found with any media or food product tested.