Identification of major antigenic proteins of Pasteurella piscicida

Microbial Pathogenesis
I HironoT Aoki

Abstract

Two different antigenic protein-coding clones (PPA1 and PPA2) were isolated using anti-Pasteurella piscicida rabbit serum from a genomic DNA library of P. piscicida strain KP9038. The PPA1 and PPA2 expressed 7 kDa and 45 kDa proteins in Escherichia coli, respectively, and the molecular sizes of these expressed proteins are the same as these of the major antigenic proteins of P. piscicida. PPA1 encodes a protein of 83 amino acids residues, which is similar to the bacterial lipoprotein. Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequence of the PPA1-encoded 7 kDa protein of P. piscicida with previously reported bacterial lipoprotein sequence data revealed that it shares about 40% amino acid sequence identity. PPA2 has two large open reading frame (ORFs). The larger ORF (encoding 452 amino acid residues) encodes a homolog of DegQ protease, and the smaller ORF (371 amino acid residues) encodes a homolog of DegS protease. The antibodies reacted with the larger ORF-encoded 45 kDa DegQ homolog protein. The DegQ and DegS homolog proteins contain an export signal and a serine protease active site. The structural features of the PPA2-coding locus are similar to those of the loci in E. coli for the degQ and degS serine protease genes. A seque...Continue Reading

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