空肠弯曲菌肠毒素理化特性的研究

经ＳＤＳＰＡＧＥ 分析发现,空肠弯曲菌细胞紧张性肠毒素（Ｃｙｔｏｔｏｎｉｃ ｅｎｔｅｒｏｔｏｘｉｎ ,ＣＥ） 的硫酸胺盐析粗提物除有一条６８ｋＤ 的带外,还有一些未分开的小分子物质,而经神经节苷脂ＧＭ１ 亲和层析后仅有６８ＫＤ 的一条带,即表明６８ｋＤ 的蛋白质为ＣＥ 的主要成分。ＣＥ 不耐热、ｐＨ 依赖和对胰酶有抗性。５６ ℃和６０ ℃加热３０ｍｉｎ 、１００ ℃加热１５ｍｉｎ 即可完全失活。其活性在ｐＨ６－０ 时最高,在ｐＨ３－０ 和９－０ 时均可使其完全丧失活性。在４ ℃保存超过３ｄ 后,其活性迅速降低。抗ＬＴ 血清能完全抑制ＣＥ 的活性。     

空肠弯曲菌LAMP快速检测方法的建立

本研究使用恒温环介导技术, 以空肠弯曲菌的促旋酶基因A(gyrA)设计引物, 建立空肠弯曲菌的LAMP快速检测方法。不同来源的4株空肠弯曲菌LAMP检测均显示阳性, 其他14种细菌LAMP检测显示阴性。实验结果表明, 设计的引物具有良好的特异性。本研究进行了LAMP检测方法与细菌平板计数法和PCR法的灵敏度比较, 结果LAMP检测与PCR法有相近的灵敏度, 比细菌平板计数法灵敏度高3个数量级。我们还研究发现提取核酸前加入DNase可以有效地减少死菌DNA对LAMP结果的影响。使用LAMP方法对鸡法氏囊的检测表明, 结合核酸提取步骤中的DNase处理步骤, 可以准确的检测出鸡法氏囊中的空肠弯曲菌。     

空肠弯曲菌生物学分型的研究

用马尿酸水解,28℃中生长及10种试剂抗性试验,研究了空肠弯曲菌的生物学分型,每株菌按3种方法,4组实验进行计数,我们对86株弯曲菌进行了生物学分型,其中空肠弯曲菌79株,分为17种类型,结肠弯曲菌5株为5种类型,海鸥弯曲菌2株为2种类型。这对菌株在流行病学上分析有一定意义。     

空肠弯曲菌的磁捕获_-荧光PCR检测方法的建立

为提高畜禽类食品中空肠弯曲菌的检出率和灵敏度,应用抗血清和磁性微珠首次制备弯曲菌免疫磁珠,利用弯曲菌免疫磁珠直接捕获检样中目的菌,不需要增菌培养;通过荧光PCR检测鞭毛蛋白A(flaA)基因和/或马尿酸酶(hipO)基因,首次建立空肠弯曲菌的磁捕获-荧光聚合酶链反应(IMC-FPCR)方法.IMC-FPCR法检测空肠弯曲菌方法简便易行,可在24h内完成,特异性好,检测低限达到10cfu/mL,抗干扰性强.IMC-FPCR方法可望解决非可培养状态的空肠弯曲菌检测难题,是一种适用于检验检疫、卫生防疫和农产品安全检验等领域的快速方法.     

宿主菌富集空肠弯曲菌噬菌体培养条件的优化

【背景】开发噬菌体产品是一种防控空肠弯曲菌有潜力的策略,但是面临噬菌体分离的挑战。【目的】运用响应面法对宿主菌富集空肠弯曲菌噬菌体的培养条件进行优化。【方法】通过单因素试验分析培养基、培养温度、培养转速、离子添加剂对噬菌体富集效果的影响,以噬菌体回收率为评价指标,采用响应面法优化了空肠弯曲菌噬菌体的富集培养条件。【结果】在37℃条件下进行静置培养时,噬菌体富集培养效果最佳,回收率为354.12%。分离噬菌体的过程包括采样并制备滤液、宿主菌与样品滤液共培养及噬菌体分离与鉴定等环节。应用此方法从鸡粪便中分离空肠弯曲菌噬菌体,与传统的单斑法相比,噬菌体分离率提高了269.23%。【结论】研究优化的宿主菌富集噬菌体培养方法可提高空肠弯曲菌噬菌体的分离效率,为噬菌体的研究提供思路。     

空肠弯曲菌细胞致死性肿胀毒素单克隆抗体的制备与鉴定

【目的】原核表达空肠弯曲菌细胞致死性肿胀毒素B蛋白(CdtB),制备其单克隆抗体(mAb),并研究mAb抗毒性作用。【方法】扩增空肠弯曲菌cdtB基因并将其构建到pET-30a(+)和pGEX-6p-1表达载体,以原核表达的GST-CdtB蛋白为免疫原,应用杂交瘤技术进行细胞融合;采用间接ELISA方法测定细胞上清和mAb腹水效价,Dot-ELISA、Western blot分析mAb特异性,并以CaCo-2和HD-11细胞为模型,鉴定mAb抗毒性能力。【结果】成功构建重组原核表达质粒pET-30a(+)-cdtB和pGEX-6p-1-cdtB,并融合表达rHis-CdtB和rGST-CdtB蛋白。获得5株稳定分泌CdtB抗体的杂交瘤细胞株,分别命名为1F3,1F5,2E4,2E11,2F2。抗体Ig类和亚类检测显示2E11 Ig亚类为IgG2b,其他4株均为IgG1。抗体效价高达1:(1×108)。Dot-ELISA试验表明5株mAb均能与空肠弯曲菌标准株发生特异性反应,与非空肠弯曲菌呈阴性反应;Western blot法分析表明5株mAb均能与纯化蛋白rGST-CdtB有良好的反应性。基于CaCo-2细胞的黏附和侵袭实验表明mAb能显著降低细菌的黏附和侵袭能力(P0.01)。【结论】成功制备了针对空肠弯曲菌CdtB蛋白的mAb。为进一步研究空肠弯曲菌致病机制,以及为研制治疗性类药物奠定了基础。     

细菌“活的不可培养状态”的生态意义及研究进展

"活的不可培养(VBNC)"状态是细菌在不良条件下的一种生存方式.VBNC状态作为细菌的一种生理状态,对传统微生物学产生了深远的影响.进入VBNC状态的细胞发生了一系列变化,无法继续用常规培养方法检测,在医学健康,环境科学等领域产生了巨大的影响,改进检测方法具有重要的意义.本文介绍了进入VBNC状态细菌在DNA、蛋白质组成等方面发生的变化,复苏过程.同时还介绍了VBNC状态的最新检测方法,最后对VBNC状态未来的研究方法进行了讨论.     

空肠弯曲菌感染动物模型的研究进展

空肠弯曲菌是一种全球关注的人兽共患病原菌,感染后可引起人和动物多种疾病。动物模型是开展致病机理、疫苗评价和药物开发等研究的基础。空肠弯曲菌由于培养条件苛刻以及感染实验动物的疾病相似性、经济性和重复性等因素,仍缺乏良好的感染动物模型,其致病机理迄今尚不清楚。本文对已报道的空肠弯曲菌感染实验动物模型进行综述。     

空肠弯曲菌的磁捕获_-荧光PCR检测方法的建立

为提高畜禽类食品中空肠弯曲菌的检出率和灵敏度 ,应用抗血清和磁性微珠首次制备弯曲菌免疫磁珠 ,利用弯曲菌免疫磁珠直接捕获检样中目的菌 ,不需要增菌培养 ;通过荧光PCR检测鞭毛蛋白A(flaA)基因和 或马尿酸酶 (hipO)基因 ,首次建立空肠弯曲菌的磁捕获_荧光聚合酶链反应 (IMC_FPCR)方法。IMC_FPCR法检测空肠弯曲菌方法简便易行 ,可在 2 4h内完成 ,特异性好 ,检测低限达到 10cfu mL ,抗干扰性强。IMC_FPCR方法可望解决非可培养状态的空肠弯曲菌检测难题 ,是一种适用于检验检疫、卫生防疫和农产品安全检验等领域的快速方法。     

Resuscitation of viable but non-culturable Vibrio parahaemolyticus in a minimum salt medium

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is food-borne pathogen prevalent in Asian countries. This work analyzes factors that influence the resuscitation of the viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state in this bacterium. The MMS-0.5% NaCl medium alone limited cell multiplication, and in this medium, resuscitation was successful when the temperature was upshifted to 25 degrees C but not 37 degrees C. Chloramphenicol inhibition experiments revealed that protein synthesis in the first 24 h of temperature upshift was critical in determining the success of the three-day resuscitation period. The VBNC state induction period and the age of the VBNC cells for successful resuscitation were strain-dependent. Results of this work facilitate further physiological and pathological study of the VBNC state in this pathogen.     

Detection of viable, but non-culturable Pseudomonas fluorescens DF57 in soil using a microcolony epifluorescence technique

Abstract Kanamycin-resistant Pseudomonas fluorescens DF57-3 cells (Tn5 modified) inoculated in soil microcosms rapidly lost their culturability, as defined by visible colony formation on Kings B agar supplemented with kanamycin. Thus, after 40 days only 0.02–0.35% of the initial inoculum was culturable. A microcolony epifluorescence technique was developed to determine the viable, but non-culturable subpopulation. A suspension of bacteria from the soil was prepared in salt solution after a sonication procedure and a sample was filtered onto a 0.2 μm Nuclepore filter. The filter was then placed for 3–4 days on the surface of Kings B agar before staining with acridine orange for epifluorescence microscopy. By staining and washing the filters carefully, disruption of microcolonies could be avoided. A majority of the microcolonies resulted from 2–3 cell divisions during the first 2 days of the incubation period, after which the cell divisions stopped. These microcolonies were taken to represent a population of viable, but non-culturable cells and comprised about 20% of the initial inoculum. A similar recovery was obtained when the filters were incubated on the surface of citrate minimal medium or soil extract medium. A few microcolonies showed continued growth on the filters, however, and their number corresponded well with that of visible macrocolonies. Observation by microscopy of a few (2–3) cell divisions (microcolony epifluorescence technique) is proposed for determination of subpopulations of viable, but non-culturable bacteria in soil.     

Profiles of enterotoxin and cytotoxin production in Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli

Enterotoxin and cytotoxin production of 10 strains of Campylobacter spp. were examined by ELISA and HeLa cells assay, respectively. Both toxins were produced in high concentrations by strains freshly isolated from patients. The maximum enterotoxin activity was found to be at 24 h after incubation, at which time cell growth reached the stationary phase. On the other hand, production of cytotoxin increased after the logarithmic phase of the growth.     

Recovery of viable but non-culturable Campylobacter jejuni.

Suspensions of Campylobacter jejuni became non-culturable after storage in sterilized pond water at 4 degrees C for periods between 18 and 28 d, depending on the strain. Suspensions of four strains of C. jejuni that had been in water for 6 weeks, and shown to be non-culturable, were fed to suckling mice. Colonization of mice was established with two of the strains and failed with the other two strains. Examination of these suspensions under the electron microscope showed some cocci having the appearance of being viable, but most cocci and all remaining spiral forms showed extensive degeneration. The results indicate that non-culturable coccal forms of C. jejuni are capable of infecting mice but that this property may differ between strains.     

微生物VBNC状态形成及复苏机制

99%以上的微生物因处于活的但非可培养(viable but non-culturable,VBNC)状态而无法分离培养。复苏促进因子(resuscitation-promoting factors,Rpfs)是培养获取VBNC菌的最重要突破。结合课题组近十余年从环境功能视角利用Rpf复苏培养VBNC菌的研究,本文在阐述微生物VBNC状态的形成及复苏进展的基础上,从VBNC菌形成及复苏过程出发,探究"探索因子"与群体感应的内在关系。并总结了课题组利用Rpf所复苏培养的具有潜在环境功能的VBNC菌种。本论文将为揭示微生物VBNC状态的形成及复苏机制提供新的思路,并为认识和重新评价Rpf法复苏培养VBNC菌在污染环境微生物修复中的作用提供理论依据。     

A rapid, colourimetric assay for cytotoxin activity in Campylobacter jejuni

Abstract Cell extracts and culture supernates of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168 and three isolates from faecal samples from patients with enteritis were tested for cytotoxic activity on HeLa and Vero cells using a sensitive and rapid dye reduction assay which represents a simple assay for cytotoxin activity that can be assessed visually or spectrophotometrically in the wells of microplates. The assay was as sensitive as trypan blue exclusion and did not require the use of radioisotopes. A low level of cytotoxin activity, compared to that produced by a control verotoxin 2-producing Escherichia coli strain, was detected in cell extracts of all four strains, but no activity was detected in culture supernates. Production of an enterotoxin was evaluated by reverse passive latex agglutination with anti-cholera toxin antibody, a procedure which also represents a rapid and simple assay for this toxin. No enterotoxin activity was detected in cell extracts or culture supernates from any of the isolates.     

Production and characterisation of Campylobacter jejuni enterotoxin in a synthethic medium and its assay in rat ileal loops

A synthetic medium for production of Campylobacter jejuni enterotoxin was developed for the purposes of its purification by modifying syncase medium, replacing sucrose with glucose, and supplementing with 0.025% sodium pyruvate, 0.25% sodium metabisulphite, 0.001% ferric chloride and 0.1% L-cysteine, adjusted to pH 6.7. Culture filtrates of a human diarrhoeal and a chicken isolate, grown in this medium caused fluid accumulation ranging between 0.50-0.70 ml/cm of rat ileal loop. The kinetics of toxin production indicated a peak at 36 h and decline by 72 h, coinciding with the period of release of protease by the organism. At least 0.4 rat ileal loop units of enterotoxic activity was recovered per ml of culture filtrates and one unit of this toxin contained only 14 micrograms of protein. The toxin is heat-labile, pH dependent, nonhaemolytic, resistant to trypsin, sensitive to papain and pronase and may show subunit molecular weight analogy with CT subunits.     

Detection of Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella typhimurium in chicken using PCR for virulence factor hipO and invA genes (Saudi Arabia)

Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella typhimurium are the leading causes of bacterial food contamination in chicken carcasses. Contamination is particularly associated with the slaughtering process. The present study isolated C. jejuni and S. typhimurim from fifty chicken carcass samples, all of which were acquired from different companies in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The identification of C. jejuni was performed phenotypically by using a hippurate test and genetically using a polymerase chain reaction with primers for 16S rRNA and hippurate hydrolase (hipO gene). For the dentification of S. typhimurim, a serological Widal test was carried out using serum anti-S. typhimurium antibodies. Strains were genetically detected using invA gene primers. The positive isolates for C. jejuni showed a specific molecular size of 1448 bp for 16S rRNA and 1148 bp for hipO genes. However, the positive isolates of the invA gene exhibited a specific molecular size at 244 bp using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Comparing sequencing was performed with respect to the invA gene and the BLAST nucleotide isolates that were identified as Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar typhimurium strain ST45, thereby producing a similarity of 100%. The testing identified C. jejuni for hippuricase, GenBank: {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"Z36940.1","term_id":"535805"}}Z36940.1. While many isolates of Salmonella spp. that contained the invA gene were not necessarily identified as S. typhimurim, the limiting factor for the Widal test used antiS. typhimurum antibodies. The multidrug resistance (MDR) of C. jejuni isolates in chickens was compared with the standard C. jejuni strain ATCC 22931. Similarly, S. typhimurium isolates were compared with the standard S. typhimurium strain ATCC 14028.