Acheson D W, Reidl J, Zhang X, Keusch G T, Mekalanos J J, Waldor M K
Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Tupper Research Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Infect Immun. 1998 Sep;66(9):4496-8. doi: 10.1128/IAI.66.9.4496-4498.1998.
To facilitate the study of intestinal transmission of the Shiga toxin 1 (Stx1)-converting phage H-19B, Tn10d-bla mutagenesis of an Escherichia coli H-19B lysogen was undertaken. Two mutants containing insertions in the gene encoding the A subunit of Stx1 were isolated. The resultant ampicillin-resistant E. coli strains lysogenic for these phages produced infectious H-19B particles but not active toxin. These lysogens were capable of transducing an E. coli recipient strain in the murine gastrointestinal tract, thereby demonstrating that lysogens of Shiga toxin-converting phages give rise to infectious virions within the host gastrointestinal tract.
为便于研究志贺毒素1(Stx1)转换噬菌体H-19B的肠道传播,对大肠杆菌H-19B溶原菌进行了Tn10d-bla诱变。分离出两个在编码Stx1 A亚基的基因中含有插入片段的突变体。这些噬菌体的溶原性产生的氨苄青霉素抗性大肠杆菌菌株产生了具有感染性的H-19B颗粒,但不产生活性毒素。这些溶原菌能够在小鼠胃肠道中转导大肠杆菌受体菌株,从而证明志贺毒素转换噬菌体的溶原菌可在宿主胃肠道内产生具有感染性的病毒粒子。