表达T~+Pm保护性抗原的重组猪霍乱沙门氏菌C500株的构建及其生物学特性

【目的】本研究利用Asd+平衡致死系统构建表达巴氏杆菌毒素(Pasteurella multocida toxin,PMT)的重组猪霍乱沙门氏菌株,并对重组菌株的生物学特性进行比较研究。【方法和结果】通过基因克隆的方法构建表达PMT的重组质粒pYA-PmtC,再将其电转化减毒猪霍乱沙门氏菌C500的asd基因缺失株C501,构建口服活疫苗菌株C501(pYA-PmtC)。研究结果表明重组菌株C501(pYA-PmtC)的生化特性、血清型和生长速度与亲本菌株C500一致;在没有选择压力的条件下,C501(pYA-PmtC)能够稳定遗传重组质粒及其外源基因片段,并能稳定、高效、分泌性表达30.5kDa的外源保护性抗原rPmtC。C501(pYA-PmtC)腹腔感染BALB/c小鼠的LD50为8.5×106CFU,毒力稍低于C500(LD50为4.4×106CFU);口服接种C501(pYA-PmtC)和C500的所有仔猪未见任何发病症状,两者没有显著差别。【结论】本研究利用Asd+平衡致死系统的原理构建表达T+Pm保护性抗原重组猪霍乱沙门氏菌弱毒菌株C501(pYA-PmtC),为进一步开发猪萎缩性鼻炎-副伤寒的双价基因工程疫苗奠定基础。     

Characteristics of batch culture of a recombinant bacillus brevis excreting a foreign esterase

The productivity of extracellular enzyme was evaluated in batch culture using a protein hyperexcreting host, Bacillus brevis HPD31(5) harboring pHSC131, which carried a gene (est) encoding esterase activity from Bacillus stearother mophilus. Optimum temperature and pH for the bacterial growth and the production of extracellular esterase were found to be 35 degrees C and pH 6.5, by using the standard medium (GPY) containing neomycin as a selective pressure, Under the cultivation condition employed, cell growth reached 5 g dry cell weight/L, while the extracellular esterase activity amounted to 4.5 U/mL. Most (79%-92%) of the esterase produced was excreted into the medium. pHSC131 was stably retained in the host cell during cultivation in the presence of neomycin. However, in the absence of neomycin, the plasmid was completely lost from the host after 12-h cultivation accompanied by decreases in both esterase activity and production of total extracellular protein. The copy number of the plasmid was estimated to be approximately 7 throughout the cultivation. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the excreted proteins showed the presence of a protein having an apparent molecular weight of 32,000, which equals to the value predicted from the DNA sequence of the est gene.     

The spatial spread and final size of the deterministic non-reducible n-type epidemic

A model has been formulated in [6] to describe the spatial spread of an epidemic involving n types of individual, and the possible wave solutions at different speeds were investigated. The final size and pandemic theorems are now established for such an epidemic. The results are relevant to the measles, host-vector, carrier-borne epidemics, rabies and diseases involving an intermediate host. Diseases in which some of the population is vaccinated, and models that divide the population into several strata are also covered.     

猪霍乱沙门氏菌ΔasdC500株的生物学特性及作为活疫苗表达载体的应用

为了评价猪霍乱沙门氏菌ΔasdC500株作为沙门氏菌Asd+平衡表达系统的可行性,对ΔasdC500株和其亲本菌株C500的生物表型,生长特性、毒力、生物安全性、表达特性等进行比较研究.结果表明:AasdC500缺失株的生化特性和血清型与亲本菌株C500一致,符合猪霍乱沙门氏茵的表型特征;携带平衡表达质粒pYA3493的重组菌株ΔasdC500(pYA3493)与C500的生长速度没有明显差别;根据Reed-Muench法,测定ΔasdC500(pYA3493)腹腔感染BALB/c小鼠的LD50为1.1 x 107CFU,毒力稍低于C500;口服接种AasdC500(pYA3493)和C500的所有仔猪未见任何发病症状,两者没有显著差别;携带重组质粒pYA-F1P2(含有支气管败血波氏杆菌抗原基因fhaB的Type I 区域和prn的R2区域)的重组菌株ΔasdC500(pYA-FIP2)能够稳定遗传重组质粒及其外源基因片段,并能稳定、高效、分泌性表达外源保护性抗原.由此表明,ΔasdC500保留了亲本菌株C500的一系列生物学特征,并可高效表达外源抗原,可作为沙门氏茵Asd+平衡表达系统开发基因工程重组疫苗.     

Isolation and Characterization of Cytotoxic Compounds from Corn

A host-vector system was constructed in Bacillus megaterium strain NK84–0128, an oxetanocin A producer. The replication origin of an endogeneous plasmid, P–4, was used to construct a potential plasmid vector, pSM5, which had a chloramphenicol resistance gene as a selective marker. Plasmid transformation by a protoplast method was used in B. megaterium strain NK84–0128. The maximum transformation frequency attained with the pSM5 plasmid was 2.0 x 10⁴cfu/µg DNA.     

A host-vector system for molecular study of the intracellular growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in phagocytic cells

The mechanisms by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives and persists in phagocytic cells remain poorly understood. To study the question, a convenient and safe host-vector system is indispensable. In this study it has been shown that, in contrast with M . smegmatis strain mc²155 which has been widely used for molecular analysis, M. smegmatis strain J15cs is able to survive even at day 6 post-infection in a murine macrophage cell line, J774. The survivability of J15cs was found to depend on the culture medium used for the bacteria prior to infection. Bacteria precultured on nutrient agar medium showed a high survivability and a characteristic cell wall ultrastructure. A plasmid vector, pYT923hyg, was developed from an Escherichia coli - mycobacterium shuttle vector pYT923 (previously constructed in our laboratory) to obtain three drug resistant genes (amp-, hyg- and km-resistant gene) and cloning sites in the km resistant gene. The vector pYT923hyg exerted no influence on in vitro growth of J15cs and intracellular survival in J774 cells, and was stably retained in J15cs after serial subculturing (three subcultures) in Luria-Bertani broth and at day 5 post-infection into J774 cells. Furthermore, using this system, the possibility of a relationship between some seemingly essential genes of M. tuberculosis and intracellular growth was demonstrated.
In this study, M. smegmatis strain J15cs and pYT923hyg were found to be capable of serving as an appropriate host-vector system for molecular study of the intracellular growth of M . tuberculosis in phagocytic cells; this system may be useful as a screening tool for M . tuberculosis genes.     

猪霍乱沙门氏菌DasdC500株的生物学特性及作为活疫苗表达载体的应用

为了评价猪霍乱沙门氏菌DasdC500株作为沙门氏菌Asd+平衡表达系统的可行性, 对DasdC500株和其亲本菌株C500的生物表型、生长特性、毒力、生物安全性、表达特性等进行比较研究。结果表明: DasdC500缺失株的生化特性和血清型与亲本菌株C500一致, 符合猪霍乱沙门氏菌的表型特征; 携带平衡表达质粒pYA3493的重组菌株DasdC500(pYA3493)与C500的生长速度没有明显差别; 根据Reed-Muench法, 测定DasdC500(pYA3493)腹腔感染BALB/c小鼠的LD50为1.1×107 CFU, 毒力稍低于C500; 口服接种ΔasdC500(pYA3493)和C500的所有仔猪未见任何发病症状, 两者没有显著差别; 携带重组质粒pYA-F1P2 (含有支气管败血波氏杆菌抗原基因fhaB的Type I区域和prn的R2区域)的重组菌株DasdC500(pYA-F1P2)能够稳定遗传重组质粒及其外源基因片段, 并能稳定、高效、分泌性表达外源保护性抗原。由此表明, DasdC500保留了亲本菌株C500的一系列生物学特征, 并可高效表达外源抗原, 可作为沙门氏菌Asd+平衡表达系统开发基因工程重组疫苗。