The structural gene encoding human enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli PCFO20 is homologous to that for porcine 987P.

Infection and Immunity
G ViboudA M Svennerholm

Abstract

Putative colonization factor PCFO20 was recently identified in an enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) strain of serogroup O20 isolated from a child with diarrhea in Argentina. The gene encoding the structural subunit of PCFO20 fimbriae, fotA, was cloned from strain ARG-2 in the expression phage vector lambda ZAP Express. One positive clone, pGV29, that carried a 3.3-kb fragment was identified on the basis of fimbrillin production by using a monospecific rabbit anti-PCFO20 serum. Nucleotide sequencing of a 1.3-kb Sau3A-ClaI fragment of the subclone pGV292 containing the region coding for PCFO20 fimbrillin revealed two open reading frames of which one was complete. A western blot (immunoblot) showed that the cloned protein, FotA, migrated like the PCFO20 fimbrial subunit protein did. Fimbriae were not detected on the surface of E. coli host bacteria containing pGV292 or pGV29, suggesting that the genes needed for assembly of PCFO20 fimbriae are lacking in both clones. The fotA gene encodes a 20,574-Da prefimbrillin protein which contains a 21-amino-acid signal sequence; the mature protein has a size of 18.1 kDa. The subunit protein FotA was found to be more homologous to the subunit of porcine 987P than to any fimbrial subuni...Continue Reading

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