Identification serologically, chemically and genetically of two Escherichia coli strains as candidates for new O serogroups
Identification serologically, chemically and genetically of two Escherichia coli strains as candidates for new O serogroups
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对两种大肠杆菌菌株进行血清学、化学和遗传学鉴定,作为新 O 血清群的候选菌株。
DOI:
10.1099/mic.0.000136
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发表时间:
2015-09-01
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影响因子:
2.8
通讯作者:
Liu, Bin
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作者:
Chen, Min;Shpirt, Anna M.;Liu, Bin
Escherichia coli strains are normally identified by the combination of their O and H (and sometimes K) antigens, and serotyping based on the antigens is believed to be crucial for clinical detection and epidemiological investigation. Two E. coli strains, G5413 and G5287, were isolated from faecal samples of female patients with diarrhoea and were not agglutinated with any antisera that cover the well-known O serogroups of E. coli. We elucidated the O-polysaccharide (OPS) structures and analysed the O-antigen gene clusters of these bacteria. The OPS structure of G5413 established by monosaccharide analysis and NMR spectroscopy was found to be unique amongst known bacterial polysaccharide structures. The O-antigen gene cluster of this strain was sequenced and did not match sequence data with any of the 184 O serogroups that have been recognized internationally. Gene functions were tentatively assigned and were appropriate to the OPS structure. Based on these data, we suggest G5413 as a candidate for a new E. coli O serogroup. Both the OPS structure and O-antigen gene cluster of G5287 were identical to those of E. coli L-19, a candidate for another new O serogroup characterized by us recently. Recognition of these two provisional O serogroups increases the number of known O-antigen forms of E. coli to 186.