SPONTANEOUS DELETIONS AND FLANKING REGIONS OF THE CHROMOSOMALLY INHERITED HEMOLYSIN DETERMINANT OF AN ESCHERICHIA-COLI O6-STRAIN
SPONTANEOUS DELETIONS AND FLANKING REGIONS OF THE CHROMOSOMALLY INHERITED HEMOLYSIN DETERMINANT OF AN ESCHERICHIA-COLI O6-STRAIN
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.154.3.1145-1152.1983
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
GOEBEL, W
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作者:
HACKER, J;KNAPP, S;GOEBEL, W
The hemolytic E. coli strains 536 (O6) propagates spontaneous hemolysin-negative mutants at relatively high rates (10-3-10-4). Type I mutants lack secreted (external) and periplasmic (internal) hemolysin activity (Hlyex-/Hlyin-) and show no mannose-resistant hemagglutination (Mrh-); type II mutants are Hlyex-/Hlyin+ and Mrh+. The genetic determinants for hemolysin production (hly) and for mannose-resistant hemagglutination (mrh) of this strain are located on the chromosome. Hybridization experiments with DNA probes specific for various parts of the hly determinant reveal that type I mutants have lost the total hly determinant; type I mutants lack only part of hlyB that is essential for transport of hemolysin across the outer membrane. Using a probe that contains the end sequence of the plasmid pHly152-encoded hly determinant (adjacent to hlyB), it was determined that a related sequence also flanks the hylB-distal end of the chromosomal hly determinant of E. coli 536. Several other similar or identical sequences are found in the vicinity of the hlyC- and the hlyB-distal ends of the chromosomal and the plasmid hly determinants.