[A case of typical mycobacteriosis due to Mycobacterium ulcerans-like organism (author's transl)].
[A case of typical mycobacteriosis due to Mycobacterium ulcerans-like organism (author's transl)].
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[一例由类溃疡分枝杆菌引起的典型分枝杆菌病(作者译)]。
DOI:
10.1128/jb.187.5.1668-1676.2005
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发表时间:
1982
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通讯作者:
M. Tsukamura
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作者:
H. Mikoshiba;Y. Shindo;H. Matsumoto;M. Mochizuki;M. Tsukamura
The 174-kb virulence plasmid pMUM001 inMycobacterium ulceransepidemic strain Agy99 harbors three very large and homologous genes that encode giant polyketide synthases (PKS) responsible for the synthesis of the lipid toxin mycolactone. Deeper investigation ofM. ulceransAgy99 resulted in identification of two types of spontaneous deletion variants of pMUM001 within a population of cells that also contained the intact plasmid. These variants arose from recombination between two 8-kb sections of the same plasmid sequence, resulting in the loss of a 65-kb region bearing two of the three mycolactone PKS genes. Investigation of nine diverseM. ulceransstrains by using PCR and Southern hybridization for eight pMUM001 gene sequences confirmed the presence of pMUM001-like elements (collectively called pMUM) in allM. ulceransstrains. Physical mapping of these plasmids revealed that likeM. ulceransAgy99, three strains had undergone major deletions in their mycolactone PKS loci. Online liquid chromatography-sequential mass spectrometry analysis of lipid extracts confirmed that strains with PKS deletions were unable to produce mycolactone or any related cometabolites. Interstrain comparisons of the plasmid gene sequences revealed greater than 98% nucleotide identity, and the phylogeny inferred from these sequences closely mimicked the phylogeny from a previous multilocus sequence typing study in which chromosomally encoded loci were used, a result that is consistent with the hypothesis thatM. ulceransdiverged from the closely related organismMycobacterium marinumby acquiring pMUM. Our results suggest that pMUM is a defining characteristic ofM. ulceransbut that in the absence of purifying selection, deletion of plasmid sequences and a corresponding loss of mycolactone production readily arise.