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Structural and regulatory genes for coli surface associated antigen 4 (CS4) are encoded by separate plasmids in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains of serotype 025.H42
Authors:GA Willshaw  MM McConnell  HR Smith  B Rowe
Institution:Division of Enteric Pathogens, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, U.K.
Abstract:Two enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains of serotype 0.25.H42 that produced coli surface associated antigens CS4 and CS6 hybridized with a probe containing the cfaD sequence that regulates expression of colonization factor antigen CFA/I. Transformation of a cloned cfaD gene into some derivatives of the strains that were negative for CS4 and CS6 resulted in expression of CS4 but not CS6. By hybridization the sequence that regulated CS4 production in the wild type 025 strains was located on a plasmid that also encoded the CS6 antigen. The structural genes for the CS4 antigen were on a separate plasmid. The 025 strains carried a third plasmid encoding enterotoxin production which was therefore unlinked to regulation sequences or genes encoding CS antigens.
Keywords:Escherichia coli            CS antigens  Plasmid  Regulation of fimbriae
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