Chung G T, Franco A A, Wu S, Rhie G E, Cheng R, Oh H B, Sears C L
Laboratory of Bacterial Toxins, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health, Seoul, Korea.
Infect Immun. 1999 Sep;67(9):4945-9. doi: 10.1128/IAI.67.9.4945-4949.1999.
To further understand the epidemiology of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF), 89 extraintestinal B. fragilis strains from Seoul, Korea, were examined for secretion of B. fragilis toxin (BFT) by the HT29/C1 biologic assay and for the B. fragilis toxin gene (bft) by colony blot hybridization and PCR. Complete agreement between the three techniques was found. Overall, 34 B. fragilis strains (38%) were identified as ETBF. Eleven of the 34 ETBF strains (32%) expressed a new isoform of BFT (Korea-BFT). This new isoform is more related to BFT-2 than to BFT-1. Like BFT-1 and BFT-2, Korea-BFT cleaves E-cadherin, the zonula adherens protein.
为进一步了解产肠毒素脆弱拟杆菌(ETBF)的流行病学情况,采用HT29/C1生物学检测法对来自韩国首尔的89株肠道外脆弱拟杆菌菌株进行脆弱拟杆菌毒素(BFT)分泌检测,并通过菌落杂交和聚合酶链反应(PCR)检测脆弱拟杆菌毒素基因(bft)。结果发现这三种技术完全一致。总体而言,34株脆弱拟杆菌菌株(38%)被鉴定为ETBF。34株ETBF菌株中有11株(32%)表达了一种新的BFT同工型(韩国-BFT)。这种新的同工型与BFT-2的关系比与BFT-1的关系更密切。与BFT-1和BFT-2一样,韩国-BFT可切割E-钙黏蛋白,即黏着小带蛋白。