Daigle F, Fairbrother J M, Harel J
Département de Pathologie et Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada.
Infect Immun. 1995 Dec;63(12):4924-7. doi: 10.1128/iai.63.12.4924-4927.1995.
We used transposon (TnphoA) mutagenesis to study the role of virulence factors of pathogenic Escherichia coli strains associated with septicemia in calves and piglets. We have produced an avirulent and serum-sensitive mutant of wild-type pathogenic strain 5131 O115:K"V165":F165 and have localized and identified the TnphoA insertion in the pstC gene of the pst-phoU operon. This operon encodes the PstSCAB transporter and PhoU protein that negatively regulate the phosphate (Pho) regulon. This mutation is pleiotropic and could have an effect on pathogenicity and on the production of the surface polysaccharides of strain 5131. The mutant demonstrated restored repressibility of alkaline phosphatase and regained the capacity to resist serum and to survive systemically for at least 5 days in experimentally inoculated pigs when complemented with plasmid pAN92, bearing the pst-phoU operon.
我们利用转座子(TnphoA)诱变技术来研究与犊牛和仔猪败血症相关的致病性大肠杆菌菌株毒力因子的作用。我们构建了野生型致病菌株5131 O115:K"V165":F165的无毒且血清敏感的突变体,并定位和鉴定了TnphoA插入到pst-phoU操纵子的pstC基因中。该操纵子编码PstSCAB转运蛋白和PhoU蛋白,它们对磷酸盐(Pho)调节子起负调控作用。这种突变具有多效性,可能会对5131菌株的致病性和表面多糖的产生产生影响。当用携带pst-phoU操纵子的质粒pAN92进行互补时,该突变体表现出碱性磷酸酶抑制作用的恢复,并重新获得了抵抗血清的能力,以及在实验接种的猪体内全身存活至少5天的能力。